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NEW DAY's Passion: Feeding Food Insecure AISD Students on the Weekend
For over 10 years as a nonprofit, NEW DAY in Arlington, Texas has provided weekend food bags to children and youth, including homeless youth, who attend school in the Arlington Independent School District (AISD). NEW DAY ended the 2021-2022 school year having delivered 58,904 bags for the year. Because of your financial support, NEW DAY was able to feed lots of hungry kids this last year.
After the first week of school in Fall 2021, we were delivering 400+ bags a week to schools throughout our community. By January 2022, the need jumped to over 1,900 weekend food bags; a significant increase. NEW DAY works with AISD personnel to determine the number of weekly weekend food bags needed by individual AISD schools.
NEW DAY volunteers served 49 of the 79 school campuses in AISD, or 62% of all AISD schools. This summer, we once again partnered with AISD Summer School and also provided food bags to Boys and Girls Club; Hoop It Up, a community event hosted by Nex Metropolitan; and the Arlington Police summer program, PAL Camp. PAL stands for Police Activities League.
Volunteers do all the work of buying the food items, preparing the sacks, and delivering the sacks to the schools. NEW DAY works out of five sites: Grace Presbyterian Church and St. John the Apostle United Methodist Church in southwest Arlington, Westminster Presbyterian Church in central Arlington, Trinity United Methodist Church in west Arlington, and Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist in east Arlington.
Money to support NEW DAY's work is given by individuals, churches, various foundations, and our annual participation in North Texas Giving Day. With the impact of the pandemic and rising food prices, the need is greater than ever than before. Beginning September 1st through September 22nd, NEW DAY, in partnership with North Texas Giving Day, kicks off its 2022 campaign. Our 2022 goal is $30,000, and it’s our hope we exceed this goal.
Please consider donating to NEW DAY by clicking on the NTX Giving Day logo above or on the DONATE NOW button below.
Volunteers are always needed to help maintain relationships with schools, purchase, pack, and distribute food. We anticipate that our numbers will continue to increase due to families struggling with medical and economic needs, worsened by the pandemic. Your donations are especially important right now as we work to serve every hungry student, despite the increase in food prices.
If you’ve given to NEW DAY in the past, Thank You for your donations! They are greatly appreciated! Whether you are a former donor, or this is your first time to consider donating, we hope we can count on you to help us feed our AISD students who are experiencing food insecurity.
That’s NEW DAY’s Passion! That’s NEW DAY’s Purpose
NEW DAY's Passion: Feeding Food Insecure AISD Students on the Weekend
For over 10 years as a nonprofit, NEW DAY in Arlington, Texas has provided weekend food bags to children and youth, including homeless youth, who attend school in the Arlington Independent School District (AISD). NEW DAY ended the 2021-2022 school year having delivered 58,904 bags for the year. Because of your financial support, NEW DAY was able to feed lots of hungry kids this last year.
After the first week of school in Fall 2021, we were delivering 400+ bags a week to schools throughout our community. By January 2022, the need jumped to over 1,900 weekend food bags; a significant increase. NEW DAY works with AISD personnel to determine the number of weekly weekend food bags needed by individual AISD schools.
NEW DAY volunteers served 49 of the 79 school campuses in AISD, or 62% of all AISD schools. This summer, we once again partnered with AISD Summer School and also provided food bags to Boys and Girls Club; Hoop It Up, a community event hosted by Nex Metropolitan; and the Arlington Police summer program, PAL Camp. PAL stands for Police Activities League.
Volunteers do all the work of buying the food items, preparing the sacks, and delivering the sacks to the schools. NEW DAY works out of five sites: Grace Presbyterian Church and St. John the Apostle United Methodist Church in southwest Arlington, Westminster Presbyterian Church in central Arlington, Trinity United Methodist Church in west Arlington, and Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist in east Arlington.
Money to support NEW DAY's work is given by individuals, churches, various foundations, and our annual participation in North Texas Giving Day. With the impact of the pandemic and rising food prices, the need is greater than ever than before. Beginning September 1st through September 22nd, NEW DAY, in partnership with North Texas Giving Day, kicks off its 2022 campaign. Our 2022 goal is $30,000, and it’s our hope we exceed this goal.
Please consider donating to NEW DAY by clicking on the NTX Giving Day logo above or on the DONATE NOW button below.
Volunteers are always needed to help maintain relationships with schools, purchase, pack, and distribute food. We anticipate that our numbers will continue to increase due to families struggling with medical and economic needs, worsened by the pandemic. Your donations are especially important right now as we work to serve every hungry student, despite the increase in food prices.
If you’ve given to NEW DAY in the past, Thank You for your donations! They are greatly appreciated! Whether you are a former donor, or this is your first time to consider donating, we hope we can count on you to help us feed our AISD students who are experiencing food insecurity.
That’s NEW DAY’s Passion! That’s NEW DAY’s Purpose
NEW DAY feeds children in Arlington with the school district as our partner. We work directly with school counselors to find the students who are either hungry or who may be food insecure. The latter are kids who may not be hungry all the time but who do not have a consistent stream of nutritious food available to them. Counselors identify these kids and contact NEW DAY for the delivery of bags of food on Fridays. The bags are discreetly distributed to students by the counselors.
NEW DAY began as an outreach ministry of Grace Presbyterian Church and it subsequently became an independent tax-exempt nonprofit organization. NEW DAY still has close ties to the faith community. In fact, churches are an important aspect of our business plan. We have established five food packing production lines with the combined capacity of delivering almost 2,000 bags of food each week to schools in Arlington. Production lines have been established at Grace Presbyterian, Westminster Presbyterian, Trinity United Methodist, Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist, and St. John the Apostle United Methodist. Church of the Good Shepherd partnered with NEW DAY in December 2020 and St. John the Apostle in August of 2021. NEW DAY also has volunteers from St. Joseph Catholic Church, St. Andrews Methodist Church, and First Methodist Church of Arlington. NEW DAY is so grateful for the support of our volunteers and these congregations.
NEW DAY began as an outreach ministry of Grace Presbyterian Church and it subsequently became an independent tax-exempt nonprofit organization. NEW DAY still has close ties to the faith community. In fact, churches are an important aspect of our business plan. We have established five food packing production lines with the combined capacity of delivering almost 2,000 bags of food each week to schools in Arlington. Production lines have been established at Grace Presbyterian, Westminster Presbyterian, Trinity United Methodist, Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist, and St. John the Apostle United Methodist. Church of the Good Shepherd partnered with NEW DAY in December 2020 and St. John the Apostle in August of 2021. NEW DAY also has volunteers from St. Joseph Catholic Church, St. Andrews Methodist Church, and First Methodist Church of Arlington. NEW DAY is so grateful for the support of our volunteers and these congregations.
