2025 Thanksgiving & Christmas at Hope Clinic
With your help, we will make sure everyone in our community has a full table this Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving:
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Each Year, the Hope Clinic and our partners provide hundreds of families with a turkey and fixings to make Thanksgiving dinner, and we serve around 100 hot meals on Thanksgiving Day. This has all been made possible by YOUR generosity.
Here are ways you can support this tradition of love!
1. Prepare and Donate Thanksgiving Bags:
The Hope Clinic is asking the community for 500 bags of Thanksgiving fixings (around $25 each). The signup link below asks for the number of bags you can donate on a specific date so that we can manage the flow of donations, as we have limited storage space. Instructions for packing bags and a list of the required content are available for download below and will be emailed to all those who sign up. Click the link below to sign up to donate.
2. Volunteer during Thanksgiving: Special shifts available!
We need volunteers to provide these services to the community. Below you will find information for three different volunteer shifts that take place throughout the week leading up to Thanksgiving.
Turkey Pick Up — 10:00am on Friday 11/21 and Saturday 11/22. Because of our limited cold storage capacity, we need to pick up turkeys from our local stores on two different occasions. Volunteers will meet at the store (TBA), load their car with turkeys, drive back to Hope Clinic, and help to unload into freezers. Volunteers must be able to lift 30 lbs, have a clean van, truck, or SUV that can hold at least 30 frozen 15 lbs turkeys, a valid drivers license, and up-to-date auto insurance.
Donation Coordination — Thursday 11/20 from 6:00pm-7:45pm, Friday 11/21 from 6:00-7:45pm, Saturday 11/22 from 9:00am-11:00am. During these times, donated bags of Thanksgiving fixings will be dropped off at the Hope Clinic. Volunteers will bring carts out to the parking lot to load donations and then organize the bags in the Hope Clinic Dining Room.
Thanksgiving Distribution — Friday 11/21 from 12:30pm-4:00pm, Saturday 11/22 from 12:30pm-4:00pm Community members receiving turkeys and fixings are assigned an afternoon to pick up their dinner. Volunteers will direct traffic, load turkeys and bags into cars, and check community members off the sign-up list. We will also have a first-come/first-serve turkey pick up day for those who did not sign up in advance and we will need volunteers—that event will be Wednesday 11/26 8:30am-11:30am (or as supplies last).
3. Hold a Holiday Food Drive to stock Hope’s shelves: We want to make sure that each community member who visits the Hope Clinic Pantry leaves with bags full of the items they need to keep their family well fed. You can donate staples like cereal, pasta, canned soup, peanut butter, cooking oil and non-food groceries like paper towel and dish soap. You can also donate holiday items like cranberry sauce, stuffing mix and spices, etc. Hope relies on these food drives to keep our shelves well stocked with a diverse range of items. Donate the items that YOUR family loves!
Due to the pressure on our storage capacity around Thanksgiving, we will be implementing a Donation Freeze from Nov 17-27. We cannot accept ANY food & basic needs donations beyond what is already scheduled during this time—we won’t have space to store them! At all other times, donations can be dropped off Mon-Fri 9am-4pm and Saturday 9am-12pm. For large donations, please call ahead to arrange a time when we have extra hands available to unload and sort.
4. Donate!
We will be purchasing 300+ turkeys this year, and receiving more from Food Gatherers, our local Food Bank and other donors. The cost of turkeys has risen in recent years, so we need $6,500.00 to make this happen.
5. Connect someone who needs a Thanksgiving Dinner!
For those who do not sign up in advance, we will have a first-come/first-serve turkey giveaway from 8:30am-11:30am (as supplies last) on 11/26.
Christmas
2025 Information Coming Soon!