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Support Us In Supporting Our Community in 2021

Our hearts have been lifted by the outpour of support from our community. We ask you to donate, volunteer your time, or spread the word about our services so that we can help more people in need. In 2020, we worked tirelessly to ensure that our community did not feel isolated and had what they needed to endure the global pandemic. If we can help you or your loved ones navigate the new normal in any way, please let us know!

This year has been difficult for everyone. We needed to pivot from hosting in-person activities for seniors to enjoy an authentic meal and each other's company to providing basic necessities and work to ensure our seniors and other vulnerable community members are not isolated or losing hope. Our volunteers and donors played an extraordinary role in helping us achieve these goals. We delivered thousands of care packages that include pantry items, hot meals, Italian flags, and more. Our volunteers also made countless phone calls to our community members to maintain a feeling of community and help avoid isolation in these difficult times.

As we continue moving forward in 2021, we hope to find a new normal, and with the vaccine, we hope to safely see each other in person again soon at Club Fugazi. Until then, we are working to provide our seniors with Grandpads, a senior-friendly video communication device, to be able to share in each other joy again soon and see the bright smiles they bring despite the circumstances. We ask you to donate or volunteer your valuable time to help us continue our work in supporting and nourishing our community. 🇮🇹

We encourage you to check if your employer has a donation matching program in place to double your donation! Please contact us at outreach@italiancs.org if you have any questions or need any help in determining if your employer will match your donation.

2020 for ICS & Our Community

We, at Italian Community Services, hope you and your families are staying healthy. Between wildfires and Covid-19, 2020 was far from predictable. When the pandemic began, we knew we needed to move quickly to support not only our seniors, but our greater community as we all found ourselves in a difficult moment in our lives.

Though we were not certain exactly where to begin, we understood that we would be supporting our community much differently than we had in the past. We began by providing necessities and comfort to our community via care packages and wellness calls. Despite the troubles 2020 threw at us, we were able to come together as a community with more numbers and strength than we could have ever imagined.

We need one another. ICS continues to help and support our community. Our Italian restaurants and businesses do not have the customers needed to pay their employees and their rent. And our seniors and recently unemployed community members need food.

Italian Community Services fills the gap and brings the community together. We purchase food from restaurants and suppliers and deliver them to the most vulnerable in our community.

We couldn't do it without our dedicated volunteers and generous donors. Donors that fund our outreach so that we can provide not only the bare necessities but items and goods that lift the spirits of our community like Italian flags and authentic Italian food from local restaurants. Volunteers that show up on Fridays to pack boxes of food and volunteers to deliver the boxes around the Bay Area from Redwood City to San Rafael to Concord. With the help of the outpour of support from our community, we have delivered over 5,100 care packages and collaborated with 2 local restaurants. We now have over 40 volunteers who have run over 1,000 errands for our seniors and made over 7,200 wellness calls checking in our seniors to not only provide necessary care but added comfort in this heartbreaking time. This is how we've found hope in 2020, by coming together as a community and showing resilience and compassion.