Unfortunately, there are very real realities among us, like not having food or shelter. And fortunately, there are organizations that work daily to help. But, they in turn need our help to keep doing what they do.

One such organization is Gleaners Food Bank, which serves southeast Michigan. Gleaners tries to make the effort for you to help as easy as possible. On their website you can access the “Gleaners Virtual Food Drive.” Instead of you you purchasing food from a store and bringing the items to them, you can shop or donate directly from the Gleaners website.

“You can help us reach our goal of distributing the equivalent of over 100,000 meals every day to our hungry neighbors in southeast Michigan. With a demand at an all-time high, we have to purchase more food than ever in order to meet the needs of our 550 food pantries, soup kitchens, and community agencies.

Your generous gift to Gleaners will provide our hungry neighbors with the nutritious and healthy meals they need. Of every dollar donated, Gleaners uses 94 cents for food and food programs. One dollar provides three meals for a hungry neighbor.

• Virtual Food Drives can be done from your computer without having to remember to shop for cans and haul them to work
• Your dollar goes further because of our bulk purchasing power and efficient distribution network
• Virtual Food Drives are green (i.e., no boxes, no bags, no transportation costs or carbon emissions)
• Your donation is 100% tax deductible

Please make a gift today.”

Gleaners Virtual Food Drive – Make A Gift

If you like, you can also contribute in a way that may be familiar to you by bringing donations to your local Paragon Community.

For the length of the cold weather, canned and non-perishable donations will be accepted at Paragon Properties Apartment locations during normal business hours, Monday-Saturday.