Texas County Food Pantry Inc

Emergency Assistance - helped 459 persons with rent/mortgage, utilities, lodging, home repair, transportation, clothing, household & personal hugiene items, emergency supplies, birth certificates, ID cards, and GED fees using grant funds and donations. A thrift shop provides clothing and household items free to those in need and at a reasonable price to those who can afford to purhcase. One SCSEP worker, with the help of 3 part-time emploees, regularly scheduled volunteers and numerous other volunteers sort, clean and display donated items for resale or give-away and operate the cash register. Thrift shop revenue is used for agency operation expenses. Unusable clothing is baled and trucked to a recycling center. One part-time employee handles client phone calls, sets up interviews, and maintains record keeping. The Executive Director sees all emergency assistance clients and makes approval decision for client assistance, and vendor payments. A part-time Finance Officer maintains book keeping and writes grans. Close to 870 additional volunteer hours were spent in coordinating, bell ringing, and money counting during the annual Salvation Army Red Kettle Campaign, for which our agency is the service unit for Texas County.