Voluntario
🥫Most Needed Items
THRIVE está impulsado por un equipo de 65 voluntarios semanales que brindan todos nuestros servicios. En 2020, registraron más de 10,000 horas, más del doble del número de horas del personal remunerado. Los voluntarios son verdaderamente la columna vertebral de nuestra organización.
NECESIDADES ACTUALES
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Trabajador de despensa: jueves de 1 pm a 3 pm
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Sustitutos de la despensa de alimentos y la recepción
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🚗 Drop Off Locations!
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THRIVE Peninsula
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City Hall
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Downing Gross
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Denbigh Community Center
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Courthouse Way Community Center
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Community Risk Reduction Building
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City Center Office
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Brittingham-Midtown Community Center
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Police HQ
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Fire Admin
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Main Street Library
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Grissom Library
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Pearl Bailey Library
🧺 Host a Food Drive
Help us keep The Market stocked and thriving by hosting a food drive! Whether you're a business, civic group, school, or faith community, your food drive will directly support families in need. Contact Us to get started.
✨ FUN Facts about The Market at THRIVE
This year, our free grocery store will serve 35,000 food insecure people across the Peninsula. 70% of all recipients live in the City of Newport News. The Market is open 6-days per week and offers flexible pickup food lockers to be accessible to everyone.
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The Market at THRIVE launched in November 2023 as the area’s first free grocery store, in partnership with Food Lion
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THRIVE distributes 1,100 boxes of cereal each month
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Food is supplied by donors, grocery store partners (mainly Food Lion), the Virginia Peninsula Foodbank, corporate groups, civic groups, and through THRIVE purchasing
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Shoppers are most excited to find fresh items like ground beef and fresh eggs in The Market
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More than 16,000 volunteer hours are dedicated to running The Market and food delivery each year
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The Garden at THRIVE grows about 800 pounds of produce annually, which is distributed through The Market
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The average shopper visits The Market 3x’s or less during a year
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Any given day, 18% of shoppers are at The Market are there for the first time.
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Families can shop for us to 6 days’ worth of food at any visit
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All shopping takes place by appointment only.
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THRIVE operates a satellite pantry in partnership with SafeHaven Empowerment Center in Denbigh, held every Thursday.
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For Hispanic Heritage Month, THRIVE will launch a Hispanic Section of The Market which will host culturally appropriate foods. We ask the community to donate items to help us keep it stocked year-round.
