Stories

01 Aug

Penzey's Pepper

Food Pantry • Business

Middleton Outreach Ministry's Food Pantry thanks Penzey's for their generous donation of pepper!

13 Apr

Middleton Youth and Mead & Hunt team up to End Hunger at Canstruction® Madison

Canstruction • Youth & Families • businesses • Organizations and Groups • food pantry

Youth from the Middleton Youth Center and Kromrey Builders Club have been working with Mead & Hunt to design a structure for this year's Canstruction® Madison competition, incorporating this year's theme, "Can Film Festival".

04 Apr

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.

Client Stories • MOM News • Food Pantry • Housing Assistance

Mary was recently divorced, working part time, looking for full time work. Her power was due to be shut off on the very day she came to MOM to meet with a case manager.

23 Dec

Mission: Possible

food pantry • Housing Assistance • Client Stories • MOM News • donors • Volunteers • Organizations and Groups • businesses • churches

Our families and individuals are up against what can seem like insurmountable odds. They will bring with them incredible courage and resilience, and we will be here to offer the help and hope needed to help them get through tough times. MOM has the privilege to distribute hope in times of darkness and in times of joy.

22 Nov

From Struggle to Strength, to Service

Volunteers • Food Pantry

“As a volunteer, nothing beats walking a family through a food pantry for the first time. To me, volunteering means being the smiling face to families who are stressed. I just say, “Let’s get some food. It’s going to be alright.”

23 Nov

Why I Give: Kary Beck

Why I Give • Donors • Food Pantry • Sharing Christmas

"This family was struggling to have food on the table, keep a roof over their heads, pay bills to stay warm. They were good people in a bad place. "

23 Nov

Why I Give: Jim Hartlieb

Donors • Why I Give • Food Pantry

"I think about how I feel and how my kids feel (ornery, cranky, not at our best!) when they are hungry and I think, 'what if we had to live like that every day?'."

15 Nov

Why I Give: Leslie Huber

Donors • Food Pantry • Why I Give

"Her little boy walked in. He was holding an empty green bean can to his mouth, drinking the juice from the bottom of it. I asked what he was doing and she said, 'He’s hungry. That’s all the food we have left in the house.' I asked her how and when they would get more food. She looked me in the eyes and said, 'I don’t know.'

02 Sep

The Food System doesn't take a Holiday

Food Pantry • Collaborations • Volunteers

MOM had an extra busy day in its sorting area on Friday. An extra twenty volunteers filled the pantry during a normally quiet afternoon, unloading and sorting pallets upon pallets of boxes of food, thanks to two extra truck fulls of food, given to MOM by Second Harvest Food Bank.