2021 Drives and Current Needs

Host: A welcome Basket Packing Party. Or hold a drive for these items for new residents: note pads/pens, dish soap, towels, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry soap, hand soap, etc

Please bring to the front office for Kathy

Item needed for our Welcome Baskets given to our new neighbors - paper towels (20)

Item needed for our Welcome Baskets given to our new neighbors - Dish soap (20)

Item needed for our Welcome Baskets given to our new neighbors laundry soap (20)

Item needed for our Welcome Baskets given to our new neighbors - hand soap (20)

Item needed for our Welcome Baskets given to our new neighbors. Note pads and Pens (20)

Item needed for our Welcome Baskets given to our new neighbors - Toilet paper, (20)

Item needed for our Welcome Baskets given to our new neighbors - Hand towels, (20)

Diaper Drive We serve many families who don’t always have the means to buy diapers. Sizes 5,6 would be most helpful

Please bring sizes 5 and 6 to the front office.

Host: A Rice and Beans bagging party. Purchase Large quantities of Rice, Black beans, and bag them in quart size bags. These items will be distributed with our Food Co-op on Fridays

Hygiene kit supplies: Washcloths, bar soap, toothpaste, toothbrush, deodorant, laundry soap (50)

Please bring these items to the front office for Kathy

In November and December We love to give away new socks and underwear for all ages. (500)

Please take to the front office for Kathy- Any quantity if a blessing and helpful!

Create First Aid kits: Gather basic first aid items for a family and place in pencil box. Example: cleansing wipes, gauze pads, assorted bandages, rolled gauze, antibiotic cream, itch stopping cream, an instant cold pack, etc. (50)

Please drop it off in the main office for Kathy. 514 S Kansas Ave

Food Drive The Backsnack Program feeds over 280 students in Olathe and Gardner every week. 2400 items leave our shelves every week. Needed items are canned soup(with meat), individual oatmeal pkts and juice boxes

Food Co-op Supplies. Every week our Food Co-ops can be found in various apartment communities. We get bulk deliveries of food. We sort them into smaller portions. Needs: Gal & Qt Ziploc bags, 55 gal trash bags, paper towel, box tape & disp. latex glove

Favorite food items are: Flour, sugar, and oil.

Birthday kit supplies- We need fun decorated party cups and plastic silverware. We give these kits to the mom of kids we serve a week before the birthday so mom can make a cake! (50)

You can drop off anytime M-F 9-4 at the front office.

DONATE: New plastic shopping bags (Thank you bags at Sam's or Costco (20)