Assistance for Food Insecure Cancer Patients
Our Patient Pantry program is a supplemental food program for cancer patients.
The Cancer Foundation provides bags/boxes of shelf-stable food items. The bags/Boxes weigh approximately 25 pounds and provide approximately 20 meals. Bags/Boxes can be up by patients every other week from our office.
How to Participate - patients
Cancer patients who are in need of emergency food assistance can ask to be applied to the Patient Pantry program by their nurse navigator, case manager, social worker, or other medical professional at the facility in which they receive cancer treatment.
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You can reach out to our Program Manager of Nutritional Assistance, Brittany Davidson, via email or calling our office at 706-353-4354 ext. 2.
How to Participate - volunteers
Members of the community are invited to donate items from our list and deliver to the TCF office. This volunteer opportunity works well as a meaningful project for small groups, businesses, and school groups and may be completed at your convenience. For questions or to sign up to collect items, click here to email our Nutritional Assistance Program Manager, Brittany Davidson.
View and download our donation schedule/list here.
We hosted our first Mobile Pantry!
We are so thrilled to share with our donors, doers, and door openers the measure of our impact from our first-ever Mobile Pantry, in partnership with the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia! We are proud to report that we served a total of 162 families and 474 individuals, 311 of which have been directly impacted by a cancer diagnosis!
This effort would not have been possible without the support of over 45 volunteers from various community partners including: UGA Institute for Leadership Advancement, UGA Kappa Alpha Theta, Piedmont Athens Regional, Northeast Georgia Medical Center Barrow, United Community Bank, BankSouth, Jackson EMC, Chastain & Associates Insurance Agency, and Third Act Counseling & Consulting, LLC, as well as community members and TCF donors.
Our next Mobile Pantry will be held during the summer, check back for a date, time, and location!