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14 Mar

Future Foam Makes an Impact in Our Community

Businesses • Volunteers • Food Pantry • Canstruction

In 2014, a manager from Future Foam, a producer of high-quality materials for homes ranging from premium carpet cushions to mattress toppers and pillows, met with MOM staff and explained that the leadership of Future Foam wanted to promote volunteerism among its workforce and was anxious to get involved in volunteering at MOM. Since that meeting, Future Foam has demonstrated this commitment by being a consistent supporter of MOM.

14 Mar

Volunteer Highlight: Gail Krc

Volunteers • Food Pantry • Clothing Center

Gail Krc has volunteered regularly at MOM since 2011, accumulating an amazing 1,700 volunteer hours in that time. As a volunteer, Gail has filled a number of different roles. In fact, here at MOM, we think there’s nothing she can’t do!

12 Mar

Share Your Garden's Bounty

Food Pantry

MOM’s Food Pantry welcomes clean, trimmed produce, including fruit, donated by local growers. Read on to learn what items we're most in need of.

12 Mar

Making a Difference for Families in Crisis

Client Stories • Utility Assistance • Food Pantry

“I can’t tell you how often MOM is on my mind and how much I appreciated the help you gave me at one of the worst times of my life. It’s really tough on the psyche when you literally don’t have even one thing in your kitchen cupboards or refrigerator.” These are the words we recently heard from Carol, a former client of MOM. Read Carol's story here.

01 Mar

Ashton 4H Group Donates Dairy Products to MOM

Food Pantry • Food Drives • Youth & Families

Inspiration to support MOM's mission to End Hunger comes in many forms. Recently, members of the Ashton 4H Go-Getters combined their love for dairy, support for MOM, and honor for Al Ripp, MOM's former Executive Director who passed away in 2017.

29 Jan

UW Health Chefs Share Crockpot Recipes at MOM

Collaborations • Food Pantry • Organizations and Groups

A little over a year ago, some staff from Culinary Services at UW Health sat down to brainstorm what they could do to make a difference in the community for those suffering from food insecurity and limited food choices. They knew they wanted to partner with an organization reaching these people. Gradually, a plan to began to unfold. In the past year, that plan has continued to grow, their efforts expanding to make an even bigger impact in the community than they could’ve ever envisioned at that first meeting.

09 Jan

Standard Imaging Volunteers Make a Difference

Food Pantry • Volunteers • Businesses

For any business, time is money. So imagine a business finding the time to allow an employee to be out of the office one afternoon each week, all year round. Standard Imaging has done just that every week for the past 382 weeks—since September of 2010. They have accumulated hundreds of hours of volunteer service. A commitment like this demonstrates to us at MOM that Standard Imaging has a work culture of volunteering and that making an impact for good in their community is one of their priorities.

04 Jan

Partnerships Provide Nutritious Options to MOM Clients

Food Pantry • Businesses

A partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Extension and Willy Street Co-Op is providing MOM clients with new skills and tools to prepare nutritious meals for their families. Thanks to their FoodWIse and Pantries of Plenty (POP) programs more families in our community can enjoy healthy food this winter.

01 Aug

Penzey's Pepper

Food Pantry • Businesses

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".

Food Pantry

Future Foam Makes an Impact in Our Community

Volunteer Highlight: Gail Krc

Share Your Garden's Bounty

Making a Difference for Families in Crisis

Ashton 4H Group Donates Dairy Products to MOM

UW Health Chefs Share Crockpot Recipes at MOM

Standard Imaging Volunteers Make a Difference

Partnerships Provide Nutritious Options to MOM Clients

Penzey's Pepper

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

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