Launching this Summer, the TCV Marketplace will bring choice to TCV clients! Reimagining our warehouse into a sleek, modern marketplace is the first phase in improving our client experience.
Save The Date!
This year Tri-City Volunteers is excited to be a part of East Bay Gives, a one-day online fundraising event on Tuesday, May 5, 2015. This event, hosted by East Bay Community Foundation, connects caring individuals like you to charitable causes that are doing good and making an impact in our local community.
Currently Tri-City Volunteers serves more than 6,000 families needing nutritional support in the Tri-City Area as well as neighboring Alameda County cities. Within those families, 60% are from Fremont alone; trying to make ends meet in a rising economy, and 30% of our population are seniors on a fixed income that will be dependent on TCV for the rest of their lives.
With May 5th rapidly approaching, we would like to ask for your support in three ways:
1. Mark your calendar for May 5th
2. Like us on Facebook to stay connected
3. Share our Facebook page with friends to help us spread the word about Tri-City Volunteers and our participation in East Bay Gives
We hope that you will support us during this time and team up with us to raise funds to continue our fight to end hunger.
For more information please contact our Office Coordinator, Gloria Lara glara@tri-cityvolunteers.org .
With much gratitude,
Tri-City Volunteers
Got baskets?
This spring season, Tri-City Volunteers is having an Easter Basket Drive to be able to provide children with Easter goodies in the Tri-City area. We recently received a large amount of small toy donations perfect for Easter baskets- but we need YOUR help!
We are asking the community to donate empty baskets or cellophane bags to be able to provide the 1,500 children that received Christmas toys an Easter basket this upcoming month. We were only able to provide 55 families and 119 children with Easter baskets and goodies this past Easter, and we hope to be able to provide the same assistance to our local children.
Tri-City volunteers serves all low-income residents of Alameda County with many of our clients coming from migrant families, are under-employed or facing unemployment due to disability, a lack of relevant work skills, or other barriers. Tri-City Volunteers is located at 37350 Joseph Street, Fremont, CA 9436. If you have questions regarding Easter basket donations, please call (510) 793 – 4583.
Huge thanks to Cargill!!
Tri-City Voluteers gets $10,000 from Cargill for high protein foods for families!
For Tri-City Volunteers clients, the cost of implementing protein into everyday food consumption is one that is more and more difficult to keep up with. Protein is a specific nutritional requirement that many of our clients are unable to consume as much as it is needed. The price of high protein foods such as turkey and chicken continues to be a significant barrier to local health and prosperity created by a struggling economy and poor job market.
With this amazing help from Cargill we will be able to provide families with high protein foods that will be essential for a child’s bone growth, strong immune systems, among other benefits.
Thanks Cargill for all that you do for the community and your support of Tri-City Volunteers!
Ready Set Recycle!
Win Prizes While Learning About Food Scrap Recycling!
Where do you put your leftover food scraps from dinner? Or how about that greasy pizza box? Put your knowledge to the test at ReadySetRecycle.org and you could win prizes. The Ready Set Recycle website offers prizes for entering the Recycling Rewards Challenge and provides recycling tips and resources for Alameda County residents. It offers information for preventing valuable resources from going into landfill and rewards for testing your food scrap recycling knowledge.
By taking the Recycling Rewards Challenge residents are entered for a chance to win $25 prizes each month. The challenges vary monthly and include answering trivia questions, watching an educational video, and engaging with StopWaste via Facebook and Twitter.
Rewards Challenge winners can choose from a variety of prizes such as a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm fresh produce box, bagged compost, gift cards, or a donation to the Alameda County Community Food Bank. Visitors to the site can find helpful information including sorting tips and instructions for how to properly dispose of items, from pizza boxes to broken glass to chicken bones.
Tri-City Volunteers recently received a grant from StopWaste, a public agency that engages the support of many local community groups to help encourage recycling in Alameda County.
To learn how sorting your bottles from your chicken bones can earn you prizes, go to Ready Set Recycle Rewards Challenge, visit www.readysetrecycle.org/recycling-rewards/
Serve While You Shop!
Amazon Smile makes it easy to support great organizations like Tri-City Volunteers while doing your regular online shopping. It’s the same great products and service that you’ll find on the regular Amazon site. You use your same Amazon account to shop. You can try it out by going to: http://smile.amazon.com/, selecting your charity, and shopping as usual. Amazon donates a percentage of the sales made on the Smile site to the organization of your choice.
From their FAQ:
What is AmazonSmile?AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support your favorite charitable organization every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you’ll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to your favorite charitable organization. You can choose from nearly one million organizations to support.How do I shop at AmazonSmile?To shop at AmazonSmile simply go to smile.amazon.com from the web browser on your computer or mobile device. You may also want to add a bookmark to AmazonSmile to make it even easier to return and start your shopping at AmazonSmile.Which products on AmazonSmile are eligible for charitable donations?Tens of millions of products on AmazonSmile are eligible for donations. You will see eligible products marked “Eligible for AmazonSmile donation” on their product detail pages. Recurring Subscribe-and-Save purchases and subscription renewals are not currently eligible.
Even Food Banks Need to Change
Click the photo above to check out this article from the Argus, detailing the hard work and progress that our Director has achieved. We are so proud of how far we’ve come, and the opportunities that we’ve provided the community. Our volunteers and the families we serve are at the heart of everything we strive for.
Back to School
A HUGE thank you to Christ the King Lutheran Church for the 68 backpacks filled with school supplies for our clients with children going back to school! Today we managed to hand all of them out among other supplies collected throughout the year and what a difference they will make next week when school starts! Thanks again everyone for your support!
TCV- Providing Opportunities for Everyone
Tri-City Volunteers is always glad to provide opportunities for work exposure and rehabilitation. We work very closely with the California School for the Deaf and the California School for the Blind to provide opportunities for people with disabilities to gain work experience while serving the community. We also provide a space for at-risk youth and people who have faced worksite injuries to re-engage themselves with the active workforce environment.
Rachel and Melissa visited DeafPlus, and organization that works with Deaf adults, to speak about opportunities for them to get involved.
Food Drive 2013
Way to go Horner Junior High School and John M. Gomes Elementary School who collected a combined 4,300 lbs of foods for us for the holidays! We cannot thank you enough for generous efforts! this will make a BIG difference for our clients!
Our year-round food drive has a huge impact during the holidays! Schools, faith-based organizations, and local businesses are encouraged to participate. Just contact Sara Govea (sgovea@tri-cityvolunteers.org) to have a food drive barrel delivered to your location.
