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Wish List
Food Items we particularly need:
- Ground
Coffee -- regular -- not instant or decaf --
no beans please
- Cooking
Oil
- Instant
Mashed Potatoes
- Ziti
& Penne Pasta -- not elbows
- Ranch
Salad Dressing
- Italian
Salad Dressing
- Spaghetti
Sauce
- Tomato
sauce
- Diced
tomatoes
- Baked
beans
- Hot
dogs
- Applesauce
- Chili
- Kidney
beans
- Spices
- Canned
Vegetables -- particularly corn and green
beans
- Hot
chocolate
- Grape
and Strawberry Jelly
- Sugar
- Canned
Gravy -- Beef, Chicken and Turkey
- Chicken
Stock
- Mayonnaise
Other things we can use:
- Bath
Towels
- Individual
toiletries -- soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes,
razors, shaving cream, deodorant
- Snacks
for our ”Lunches to Go” —Chips, Cookies etc.
- Black
beans
- Canned
beef stew
- 16
oz bottled water
- Cereal
- Rice
- Sugar
- Parmesan
Cheese
- Hams
-- canned or other
- Canned
chicken
- Paper
Towels
- Napkins
- Twin
blankets
Items for Grab and Go Bags (in addition to sandwiches
--
- Fresh fruit
- Cookies -- Home Made or Store Bought
- Granola Bars and Pop Tarts
- Individually Wrapped Snacks
If you want to donate sandwiches, follow these steps:
1) Click on the button below to go to our Sign Up page
2) Review the options and choose the spot(s) you like
3) Sign Up. It's easy and you won't have
to join or create a password.
Things that we are not
looking for:
- Hot
Sauce
- Clothing
except noted below
- Fruit
cocktail and other canned fruit
- Cold
drink mix -- lemonade, iced tea, etc
We are now accepting donations of the following
clothing items
- Sweatpants and sweatshirts/hoodies
- Men's jeans -- size 32, 34, 36
- Men's shirts
- Men's winter and non winter jackets
- Men's footwear -- especially workboots
- New men's and women's underwear
We cannot accept donations of meat which
has not come from a commercial supplier (ex no venison
from hunters).
Dorothy
Day House has limited storage facilities, so we are
unable to accept clothes donations except for items
noted above
Unfortunately
we
are not able to arrange pickups of donations.
Pleasebring donations to Dorothy Day House is
between 1:30 to 2:30pm any day of the week when the
cooking crew is preparing the daily meal. Our
address is 11 Spring Street in Danbury CT For
directions , click
here.
If you are planning
to do a food drive, please contact Ken Ballard at
203-770-9668. All food donations are
used in meals prepared at the kitchen.
We do not distribute food baskets to our
guests. Therefore,
there
is no large requirement for food around Thanksgiving
and Christmas holidays. Plenty
of donations come in at this time, so if you are
planning a food drive, if it is possible, please
consider running it during the first 10 months of the
year.
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