NEKCA Food Drive Success

(L-R) Kory Cantin (board member), Rose Page (member), Brynn Evans (member & past president), Jackie Patridge (board member),
Rebecca Lewis and Becca Sanders from NEKCA, and Sara Bunnell (member)

We had a great time at our food drive for NEKCA - Northeast Kingdom Community Action on September 28, 2024! Thank you to The White Market for allowing us to set up for a couple of hours at their Lyndonville Plaza location. A BIG thank you to our amazing community members who donated to help put food on the shelves at NEKCA's St. Johnsbury food shelf for those in need. We gathered 268 pounds of food and $137 in donations! 
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Food Drive for NEKCA

Rotary Kingdom Impact is excited to announce our next service project - a food drive for NEKCA to help support community members facing food insecurity! Please stop by The White Market Plaza location in Lyndonville on Saturday, 9/28, from 10:00am-noon to help fill the need for more items at NEKCA's food shelves.
 
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Rotary Kingdom Impact Teams up with SJA Student on Community Project

Carrie Locklin of Rotary Kingdom Impact, SJA Junior Quinn Macdonald, Rotary Kingdom Impact Board Member
 Jackie Patridge, and Jorday Cady with Umbrella display the items collected during the drive. 
 
Quinn Macdonald, a junior at St. Johnsbury Academy (SJA), recently came up with an idea to help fellow students. She stated, “SJA has so many awesome resources for students, but one thing we were lacking was hygiene products.” Along with the price of food, the cost of hygiene products has increased, which can create hardship for many people.
 
Quinn said, “For a while, I didn’t know where to start in helping my community, but I knew I wanted to.” She connected with Brynn Evans, the director of development at SJA and the founding and current president of the newest Rotary Club in the Northeast Kingdom.
 
“Our new club, Rotary Kingdom Impact, is focused on service projects, and the timing of my conversation with Quinn was perfect as we were looking for our next project,” said Brynn. “Rotary does a lot to work with youth, so the thought of helping a high school student bring their idea to life made it even more special. I brought the idea of a hygiene product drive to our group, and everyone jumped on board. We also wanted to broaden the impact, so we decided to hold the drive to support both students at SJA and clients of Umbrella.”
 
Throughout the month of March and into April, Rotary Kingdom Impact held a community-wide drive to collect items like shampoo, soap, body wash, lotion, toothbrushes and toothpaste, and deodorant. 98 Mill Italian Pub & Grill held a promotion on Mondays for anyone donating, and drop-off locations were also offered at SJA, Do North Coworking, and Union Bank on Portland Street in St. Johnsbury. Passumpsic Bank donated products, and the club held an in-person drive at The White Market in St. Johnsbury.
 
Brynn said, “Yet again, our community stepped up with product and monetary donations. The number of products we ended up with was tremendous and more than we could have hoped for. The generosity we experienced will have a big impact on our local high school students and women and children who work with Umbrella.”
 
“Umbrella’s mission is to cultivate a Northeast Kingdom where all people thrive free from abuse and oppression,” said Jordan Cady, Umbrella’s associate director of development and communications. “We offer many different programs that serve survivors and children of survivors who experienced intimate partner violence, sexual violence, dating violence, and stalking. Our advocacy team provides a wide range of services, like identifying emergency housing options, including at our shelter.”
 
Jordan continued, “These hygiene products will be used for people and families who stay in our shelter. Thanks to Rotary Kingdom Impact, this will provide another layer of comfort for survivors.”
 
The products donated to SJA will be made available to students through the Student Life Office and Health Services. “I am so thankful to Rotary Kingdom Impact for making this idea a reality so quickly,” said Quinn. “I know that all of the supplies we collected will be used by those who need them.”
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Rotary Kingdom Impact Holds Drive for Hygiene Products

Our club is excited to announce our next service project. Throughout the month of March, we are holding a drive to collect personal hygiene products for youth and adults in need in our community. Community members may donate items such as deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, face wash, soap hair ties, lotion, toothpaste, and toothbrushes. 
 
Thank you to these awesome local businesses for providing drop off locations: 98 Mill in St. J with a special promo on Mondays at the Mill (6:00 trivia / 7:00 karaoke) with $1.00 off an appetizer or dessert for donated items, Straszko Center at St. Johnsbury Academy (Monday - Friday 9:00am - 3:00 pm) at 85 Fairbanks Drive, Do North Coworking, Union Bank Portland Street Branch in St. J.
 
Rotary Kingdom Impact will also hold an in-person drive on Saturday, March 23rd from 10:00am - Noon at The White Market in St. J. 
 
In addition the businesses listed above, we thank Passumpsic Bank for their support of this project. 
 
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First Service Project a Success - Donations for NEKCA

 
Rotary Kingdom Impact held our first ever service project on October 7, 2023 during the Fall for St. Johnsbury event. Members of the club collected food and wellness items at The White Market to support the market at Northeast Kingdom Community Action (NEKCA) in St. Johnsbury. 
 
The community was amazing! Shoppers helped us to secure 420 pounds of food and $130 in cash and gift card donations to help local families. 
"Food shelves rely on the generosity of our community to keep food on our shelves," said Becca Lewis the Director of Outreach Services at NEKCA. "With out these donations it is hard to meet the demands we face daily for providing food to people walking through our doors." 
 
Becca continued, "Over the past few years we have seen a constant increase of people coming through our doors every month. We have more than tripled the number of people utilizing our Marketplace/Food Shelf."
 
"Our club is so excited to have kicked off our service projects and are so thankful to the community for supporting our efforts," said Brynn Evans the President of Rotary Kingdom Impact. "It was an excellent effort by our club members and we all had fun making a difference for NEKCA and the families they serve. This is the first of many projects we will undertake together. Interested in having fun through service? Contact us today to learn more!"
 
 
 
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