In Critical Need Of a 16 ft. Box Truck w/Liftgate
Tax deductible
Please help our efforts to help those in financial crisis in food-insecure households. I'm raising money to benefit Bentley Community Services and your donations will help make a tremendous impact. Thank you in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to me and so many others! We are in desperate need of a new box truck as our current truck continues to need servicing each month and it is not cost effective to continue this each month and in addition, having to rent a truck for our scheduled pickups. A box truck is critical in order to pick up the food provisions on our scheduled routes to grocers, restaurants, farms, Princeton University, bakeries and large box stores.
Bentley Community Services (BCS) helps families, seniors and individuals in financial crisis in food-insecure households who come from the entire Central New Jersey region of communities, as we create access to and provide families healthy, fresh and nutritious foods weekly to facilitate healthy diets and nutrition. BCS is in its seventh year, continues to grow and has been serving our neighbors in need in our communities since August, 2013. Currently, BCS has distributed over 1.6 million lbs. of high quality food provisions, graduated 89 (a typical family of five) families out of the program since 2013 that have reached financial stability. During 2019, 13 families graduated and reached their goal of self-sufficiency. Bentley is a volunteer charitable organization and volunteers logged a total of 18,743 hours in 2019!
Many working families silently struggle, are not reaching financial solvency and are in financial crisis in food-insecure households due to two incomes going to one, underemployment, numerous debts, higher costs of living and groceries, diminishing healthcare and medical bills. Often, it is a choice of whether to pay the mortgage or rent, put gas in the car, pay the monthly bills or purchase foods that are less costly and not as nutritious. They simply cannot afford to purchase healthy and wholesome foods for their families. These families are not on the SNAP program and are unable to receive/make above guidelines for traditional assistance. Yet, these families continue to struggle. Families shop and pick up foods weekly at our warehouse distribution facility at 4064 US-1, Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852 where they pack up full shopping carts worth over $200 of high quality food provisions for their households, as BCS helps them get on the fast track to recovery, offsetting/eliminating grocery bills.
By Bentley being the main grocer, we provide large amounts of groceries weekly to enable these families to prepare three meals each day and more. Well-fed children think and learn better in school and well fed mothers and fathers are able to feel food secure, eliminating this stress. They are able to be productive and creative in their workplace. It is vital that Bentley continues in its operations, providing and creating access to healthy and nutritious foods each week for this target population, as we address the most basic needs of those that are struggling daily. By Bentley providing meats, chicken, seafood, dairy products, fresh quality breads/baked goods, fresh fruits and vegetables, non-perishables, toiletries, household products, adult education and resources, the money they save on these crucial staples enables these families to pursue goals that move them away from the bankruptcies, evictions and foreclosures that threaten them, and on to financial stability. Their households are food secure with nutritious, healthy foods to feed their family.
BCS rescues, recovers and picks up on scheduled pickups, surplus foods that are donated to us from over 20 providers, such as retail grocers, farms, restaurants, bakeries, dairies, distributors, Princeton University and several big box stores as we divert these quality foods from the landfill, check, sort and re-distribute into the households that certainly need and could use them. BCS practices accountability, integrity and the dignity of the exchange through community volunteerism as we serve one another. As BCS has no geographic borders, families presently come from Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset, Hunterdon, Union, Essex, Monmouth and Ocean counties. BCS has a large community of volunteers each week, consisting of key community volunteers, clientele families volunteering on rotation and employee work teams from various corporations and organizations that support our program.
Please consider a tax-deductible donation to help us purchase a new box truck. Thank you! For more information, please visit our website at www.bentleycommunityservices.org and Facebook page at www.facebook.com/bentleycommunityservices/ Please contact us also at [phone redacted] for more information.
Bentley Community Services (BCS) helps families, seniors and individuals in financial crisis in food-insecure households who come from the entire Central New Jersey region of communities, as we create access to and provide families healthy, fresh and nutritious foods weekly to facilitate healthy diets and nutrition. BCS is in its seventh year, continues to grow and has been serving our neighbors in need in our communities since August, 2013. Currently, BCS has distributed over 1.6 million lbs. of high quality food provisions, graduated 89 (a typical family of five) families out of the program since 2013 that have reached financial stability. During 2019, 13 families graduated and reached their goal of self-sufficiency. Bentley is a volunteer charitable organization and volunteers logged a total of 18,743 hours in 2019!
Many working families silently struggle, are not reaching financial solvency and are in financial crisis in food-insecure households due to two incomes going to one, underemployment, numerous debts, higher costs of living and groceries, diminishing healthcare and medical bills. Often, it is a choice of whether to pay the mortgage or rent, put gas in the car, pay the monthly bills or purchase foods that are less costly and not as nutritious. They simply cannot afford to purchase healthy and wholesome foods for their families. These families are not on the SNAP program and are unable to receive/make above guidelines for traditional assistance. Yet, these families continue to struggle. Families shop and pick up foods weekly at our warehouse distribution facility at 4064 US-1, Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852 where they pack up full shopping carts worth over $200 of high quality food provisions for their households, as BCS helps them get on the fast track to recovery, offsetting/eliminating grocery bills.
By Bentley being the main grocer, we provide large amounts of groceries weekly to enable these families to prepare three meals each day and more. Well-fed children think and learn better in school and well fed mothers and fathers are able to feel food secure, eliminating this stress. They are able to be productive and creative in their workplace. It is vital that Bentley continues in its operations, providing and creating access to healthy and nutritious foods each week for this target population, as we address the most basic needs of those that are struggling daily. By Bentley providing meats, chicken, seafood, dairy products, fresh quality breads/baked goods, fresh fruits and vegetables, non-perishables, toiletries, household products, adult education and resources, the money they save on these crucial staples enables these families to pursue goals that move them away from the bankruptcies, evictions and foreclosures that threaten them, and on to financial stability. Their households are food secure with nutritious, healthy foods to feed their family.
BCS rescues, recovers and picks up on scheduled pickups, surplus foods that are donated to us from over 20 providers, such as retail grocers, farms, restaurants, bakeries, dairies, distributors, Princeton University and several big box stores as we divert these quality foods from the landfill, check, sort and re-distribute into the households that certainly need and could use them. BCS practices accountability, integrity and the dignity of the exchange through community volunteerism as we serve one another. As BCS has no geographic borders, families presently come from Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset, Hunterdon, Union, Essex, Monmouth and Ocean counties. BCS has a large community of volunteers each week, consisting of key community volunteers, clientele families volunteering on rotation and employee work teams from various corporations and organizations that support our program.
Please consider a tax-deductible donation to help us purchase a new box truck. Thank you! For more information, please visit our website at www.bentleycommunityservices.org and Facebook page at www.facebook.com/bentleycommunityservices/ Please contact us also at [phone redacted] for more information.
Organizer
Dorothy Stearns-Holmes
Organizer
Belle Mead, NJ
Bentley Community Services
Registered nonprofit
Donations are typically 100% tax deductible in the US.
