What's Your Passion?
NEW DAY's Passion
Feeding Food Insecure AISD Students on the Weekend
For over 12 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 2022-2023 school year having delivered 66,169 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 2022, we delivered 671 meal bags. Our goal at the beginning of the school year was to provide 1,800 weekend meal bags per week, however, that number grew in the latter part of 2022, and then it was capped in October 2022 to 2,234. We continued to serve our students and work with AISD personnel to determine the number of weekly weekend meal bags needed by individual AISD schools. NEW DAY volunteers served 50 of the 75 school campuses in AISD, or 67% of all AISD schools.
Volunteers do all the work of buying the food items, preparing the sacks, and delivering the meal bags to the schools. NEW DAY works out of four sites: Grace Presbyterian Church and St. John the Apostle United Methodist Church in southwest Arlington, Westminster Presbyterian Church in central 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 lingering pandemic issues and increased food prices, the need is greater than ever. Beginning September 1st through September 21st.
NEW DAY, in partnership with North Texas Giving Day, kicks off its 2023 campaign. Our 2023 goal is $50,000 and it’s our hope we
exceed this goal. Please consider donating to NEW DAY by clicking on our link NTGD NEW DAY Arlington or our QR Code.
Volunteers are always needed to help maintain relationships with schools, as well as to purchase, pack, and distribute food. 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 considering donating through North Texas Giving Day, 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 subsequently became an independent tax-exempt nonprofit organization in 2012. NEW DAY still has close ties to the faith community. In fact, churches are an important aspect of our business plan. We have four partner churches serving as food packing sites with the combined capacity of delivering almost up to 2,000 bags of food each week to schools in Arlington. Volunteers also come from our partners - Grace Presbyterian Church, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist, and St. John the Apostle United Methodist Church. 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 additional congregations and the general Arlington community.
NEW DAY began as an outreach ministry of Grace Presbyterian Church and subsequently became an independent tax-exempt nonprofit organization in 2012. NEW DAY still has close ties to the faith community. In fact, churches are an important aspect of our business plan. We have four partner churches serving as food packing sites with the combined capacity of delivering almost up to 2,000 bags of food each week to schools in Arlington. Volunteers also come from our partners - Grace Presbyterian Church, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist, and St. John the Apostle United Methodist Church. 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 additional congregations and the general Arlington community.
Thank you for your support.
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You may also use our Donate button below to donate to NEW DAY.
