Ladies Night Out April 5 2011

Join us for food, wine, fun, shopping, and more on April 5, 2011 in Carson City. Tickets are only $10 per person and all proceeds help Food For Thought. Details for this Ladies Night Out are at http://www.nvfoodforthought.org/Ladies_Night_Out_2011.pdf. Hope you can join us!

Community Rummage Sale October 2

Hello FFT supporters!

Our efforts rely on funding support from the people in the community and like all nonprofits we are always in the fund‐raising mode. You can support a very fun effort planned for Saturday, October 2, from 8:30 AM until 3:00 PM in the parking lot of St. Paul 's Lutheran Church on the corner of Saliman and Highway 50.

The event details: All kinds of highly sellable (everything has to sell as we have no capacity to store unsold items and everything needs to be in good condition and in working order) items are encouraged.

Our landlord has generously offered the use of an empty warehouse in our complex to store donated goods and for us to use as a staging area. You can bring your treasures here to the FFT warehouse anytime during our working hours (if you bring them on a Thursday or Friday please bring them in after the bagging operation, anytime after 10:30 would be great). We will give you a receipt for your donation and will then bring your donation to our staging warehouse unit. Our regular hours are now 8:30 to 12:30 Monday through Friday.

We hope to get some fabulous items to sell and we hope to see all of you doing some shopping to benefit our programs. Thank you!

We're Coconut for Our Sponsors and Donors!

Wow! What a great turn out for our second annual Coconut for Kids fundraiser. Thanks to the volunteers who worked so hard to put it all together. Also, thanks to our very generous sponsors and donors who helped us raise critical funds to keep helping the kids in our area. You can see a complete list at http://nvfoodforthought.org/Coconut_for_Kids_Thank_You.pdf

Stay tuned for invormation about our next fun-filled event!

Welcome New Board Members

Food for Thought would like to welcome our new and recognize our existing Board members:

Board of Directors

President Gina Session, NV Chief Attorney General
Vice President Timothy Angello Regulator Compliance Manager Eaglemark Savings BankTreasurer Carrie
Secretary Nancy Yamamoto
Dr. Lisa Keating, Ph.D, Child Pyschologist
Molly Walt, Carson City Supervisor
Stacie Wilke, Carson City School District Trustee
Raynell Heaton
Donnie Moellendorf

Advisory Board Members

NV Assemblywoman Bonnie Parnell
Carson City Mayor Bob Crowell
Dr. Susan Pintar, MD
Jodi Pettersen, RDA
Dr. Sandra Koch

Holiday Closing and Summer Hours

In an ongoing effort to minimize our overhead expenses, we've reduced our summer season hours to Tues.-Thurs. 8 am to noon, beginning June 01, 2010. We will resume our regular school year hours of Mon.-Fri. from 8:30 am - 2:30 pm on Mon., Aug.16, 2010. In observance of the Memorial Day Holiday we will be closed on Mon., May 31, 2010. Thank you for your continued support of our children in-need!

Go Coconuts for Kids

Mark your calendar for May 22 at 4 p.m. when we'll go tropical at the Govenern's Mansion for Food For Thought's annual fundraiser. Check out the flyer for more info. See you there!

Empire Elementary Gift Drive: We Need Your Help!

Empire Elementary school is trying to support over 200 children this year with their angel tree. We are working with the Empire on providing 10 children some gifts for the holidays. Each of these families has provided their pant, shirt, and shoe sizes as well as a gift request. If you would like to help with one of these children, please let me know which one you will be supporting and what you will be providing (shirt, pant, shoe, and/or gift). I have already purchased some Barbies for the two girls in Family C. These will be delivered to the children's families on Dec. 19th. You can bring in your donations to the FFT warehouse any day up until Dec 18th.

We are also donating some of the canned food from our food drives to their holiday baskets.

Thanks for all you do for the children we serve.

Julie Bushner
Director of Operations
julie.foodforthought@yahoo.com
(775) 883-1011