NASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER, INC.
42 Chestnut Street, PO Box 3116, Nashua, NH 03061
(603) 889-7770
We are struggling with empty shelves in our food pantry. In a memo this morning by pantry volunteers, the following were listed as "none on the shelf":
PASTA
RICE
Boxes of MACARONI & CHEESE
Ramon Noodles
Canned Fruits
If you can help us restock our pantry shelves in time for next week's non-perishable food bag distribution, it will be greatly appreciated! Please drop off any donations Monday through Friday from 7AM - 6PM or Saturdays from 8AM - 10:30AM. Questions? Call Carol at 889-7770 (ext 21 after hours). Thank you!
For more information on donating to our 2008 Dinner Auction (11/22/2008), becoming a Corporate Sponsor or placing an advertisement in our Auction Booklet, click here.
Worried about donating prepared food from a celebration? Restaurant owners---too much on your buffet --- please don^t throw it away. We feed more than 200 people a day in our Soup Kitchen. We^d love to have your extras. To read more on how you are protected by The Bill Emerson Food Donation Act, signed into federal law on October 1, 1996 by President Bill Clinton, click here! Questions? Contact Carol at 889-7770, ext 21 or carol@nsks.org Let^s put that extra food to good use! Thanks!
ADVOCACY ISSUES: If you are interested in policy issues affecting homelessness and hunger, let us know. We^d love to send you e-mails to keep you informed. Send your e-mail to eileen@nsks.org and put "Advocacy" in the subject line.
The Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter is dedicated to providing shelter and food to those in need. The overall objective of the agency is to advocate, create and operate programs and services that promote dignity and self-sufficiency for those we serve. To ensure that basic needs are addressed, the NSKS is committed to joining with others in a community-wide ethic of caring.
Vision Statement:
The NSKS is working to end homelessness and to alleviate poverty and the conditions that force individuals and families with children into hunger, homelessness and poverty.
Agency Services:
- soup kitchen and food pantry Hunger is not
- emergency shelter an act of God
- transitional housing or an act of nature.
- employment and education prog It is a choice
- Hispanic advocacy we are making
- permanent affordable housing as human beings.
- social work assistance -Marion Wright Edelman
- public policy and education
Poverty is a weapon
of mass destruction
The NSKS serves the Greater Nashua area. Community support is critical to the NSKS. Over 70% of the funds for operating programs for those in need come from private contributions. We are grateful for your support.
