Update #6: Food Club Opens!
On October 25th, we celebrated with our community as we launched Food Club. After years of planning, and a community-wide campaign joined by hundreds of individuals, businesses, foundations, and churches, this new cornerstone of community service welcomed its first guests. Leading up to our opening, and in the days to follow, we hosted events, and saw our program launch featured in local and national coverage. We’re glad to share a selection of highlights below!
The local press covered our opening week, when hundreds of qualifying, low-income families arrived, registered, and were greeted by our team and volunteers. [Below: Grand Opening photos, courtesy of the Holland Sentinel]
The Holland Sentinel covered our opening on their front page with “Community Action House opens grocery-store-like Food Club” (here)
WZZM provided video coverage of our opening: “'Struggle without stigma': Grocery store-style food pantry opens in Holland” (here)
MLive covered our opening with an article and video: “Food Club offers grocery store setting for low-income families in Holland” (here)
A short few weeks into our open, the NYC Food Policy Center featured our new Food Club as a best practice.
Our friends at the Michigan West Coast Chamber of Commerce featured Food Club as their December cover story in their ‘The West Coast Way’ Magazine.
As soon as we got our sign on the outside of our building, our friends at the Chamber of Commerce joined us and many of our supporters to conduct an official ribbon cutting ceremony! [Below: Ribbon Cutting photos courtesy of the Michigan West Coast Chamber of Commerce]
We’re proud to be working with so many of you to have launched this incredible new resource so well aligned with our community’s present needs. Thank you for your support and your interest. We are a community-powered institution, and we’re in this together.
Stay tuned for more updates to come, and help spread the word! It takes a movement to grow and sustain such impactful services!
On October 25th, we celebrated with our community as we launched Food Club. After years of planning, and a community-wide campaign joined by hundreds of individuals, businesses, foundations, and churches, this new cornerstone of community service welcomed its first guests.