Expansion Campaign
The Campaign for Falmouth Service Center
Our Community’s Need
For our clients, hope is a welcoming environment with compassionate staff and volunteers; a grocery cart full of food; clothing for their family; special assistance programs; and the knowledge that there is a safety net of support in our community.
The Falmouth Service Center helps families and individuals —those with young children, multi-generational, isolated seniors, staff and students from our local schools and military families at Joint Base Cape Cod. The FSC food pantry is available to anyone who needs food assistance.
We distributed more than one million pounds of food including meat, fresh vegetables, milk and pantry staples in 2023
We provide food to an average of 500 households every week of the year.
We also provide financial assistance to Falmouth families who need help covering the costs of rent, mortgage, utilities, and more. Special assistance programs like Fresh Start Back-to-School, Turkey Baskets, and our Children’s Holiday Program provides further assistance to our client families.
We are continually adding new programs for our client households and since the pandemic, we have seen the need for our food pantry triple. We are using almost all available space for food programs and have had to move our clothing and household assistance program several times.
Giving out one million pounds of food and ensuring those in need of financial assistance have a safety net takes tremendous effort from a small, dedicated staff and hundreds of volunteers, and we couldn’t do any of this work without our compassionate and loyal donors.
Your Support is Critical
We are pleased to present our proposal adding 2,200 square feet to the building addressing space limitations and allowing for additional growth, as follows:
A year-round clothing room will be available to all registered clients giving them access to a wide range of free clothing and household goods. Clients find this program to be invaluable.
Community partners will resume or expand on-site services to mutual clients, including fuel assistance applications, health and wellness programs, legal and financial empowerment consultations.
500 square feet of warehouse space will be reclaimed for additional food storage.
How Can You Help?
We invite our community to help through philanthropic donations.
The total project will cost about $1,750,000. Our community fundraising goal is $750,000. The FSC board of directors is committed to this high priority project and will apply financial reserves that have been established over the last few years to fund the balance of the project.
Please consider making a gift today.
Your gift matters to our community. You can make a one-time gift or pledge a gift over 2 years for an even bigger impact.
For more information, please contact Ginny Irving, Director of Development and Communications by calling 508-548-2794 or emailing ginnyi@falmouthservicecenter.org.
70% of households served through our food programs are Falmouth residents.
94% of households served come from across the whole Cape and Islands.
Since the pandemic in 2020, the need for FSC food programs has tripled!
1,111,022 pounds of food distributed to clients in 2023.
