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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Grocery Outlet store successful southeast Fresno is giving its customers a antithetic benignant of inducement to assistance struggling Fresno State students and their families.
For each canned nutrient point donated astatine the Grocery Outlet store astatine Peach Avenue and Belmont Avenue, they volition gain a raffle introduction to triumph a $100 acquisition paper to Grocery Outlet - oregon triumph a hammock. The canned nutrient volition past beryllium sent to the Bulldog Pantry, crossed the thoroughfare from Fresno State.
Bulldog Pantry's Erica Bird says the pantry helps hundreds of families struggling with nutrient insecurity. Bird says the pantry was established 17 years agone by Fresno State students who saw a request successful the community. Since then, Bird says it has been tally wholly by students - without fiscal backing from Fresno State.
"As a wholly unpaid oregon fundamentally grassroots, tiny nonprofit, we trust connected our relationships with others successful the community," Bird said. "We're astatine a constituent present wherever immoderate of our backing has been chopped and truthful we're not capable connected our ain supply the nutrient that families need."
Bird says the pantry services astatine slightest 200 families each clip they unfastened their doors and she's thrilled to spouse with Grocery Outlet to assistance proceed the pantry's work.
The donation inaugural was made imaginable successful portion done Bird's narration with Big Brothers and Sisters CEO Diane Phakonekham.
Phakonekham says aft collaborating with Grocery Outlet connected erstwhile fundraisers she knew the owners of the southeast Grocery Outlet, Noah Moore and his woman Sayra, were conscionable the radical to call.
"I reached retired to them and said 'please, is determination immoderate mode we tin bash a nutrient thrust to assistance [the pantry] proceed to bash the large enactment they bash successful the community?'"
Noah says it is important for him to acceptable an illustration for his children.
"The much you springiness the much volition instrumentality to you."
Noah says clip and clip again helium has seen his customers travel to him and archer him their needs. Each clip helium has helped them, Noah says they person returned the favour tenfold.
The nutrient thrust volition proceed until Friday, Aug. 23. The winners volition beryllium announced erstwhile the nutrient is donated connected Aug. 24.
