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Would You Make an Auction Donation?
Use your Amazon Smile account to shop for Irving Cares! Search "IrvingCares" to find our wish list on Amazon, then use your Smile account to buy an auction item for The Great Harvest 25th Anniversary. The item you select will ship to us, and be featured in the silent...
Shop with Amazon Smile
As you shop for summer fun or back-to-school, remember to give twice! Shop Amazon Smile and a portion of your purchase will benefit Irving Cares. Use this link to sign up! https://smile.amazon.com/ch/75-1436937
Christmas Came Early Thanks to Hoblitzelle Foundation & David Weekley Homes
The new refrigerators arrived this morning! We'll use them to store fruit and veggies, bakery items and eggs. Kyle Taylor said, "This will allow us to expand amounts and types of dairy products, and maintain better quality fresh fruits and vegetables that come from...
I have a happy family again, thank you!
After getting help from the food pantry, Melanie wrote this note and shared her photos of the meals she made, "Thank you for helping us today...this is what I made for dinner...all Irving Cares food pantry items with some added okra I had in the freezer...good...
See How Reliant Is Energetically Giving Back to the Community
As part of their Global Giving Day folks from Reliant spent time working in the food pantry and made a hefty donation. You can hear all about their work in the community on this clip from Good Morning Texas, http://www.wfaa.com/good-morning-texas.
Best In Irving!
Irving Cares was named Best Local Nonprofit in Irving at the Irving Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce awards! Thank you to all our supporters. We couldn't do it without you!
A More Comfortable Food Pantry
Thank you to our friends at Nokia for the beautiful new furniture in the food pantry waiting room. It's so bright and cheerful...and comfortable!
Glenn Beck and The Blaze at Irving Cares
This afternoon Glenn Beck came to work at Irving Cares. He and the group from his magazine, The Blaze, spent time helping in the food pantry - sorting groceries and serving others. Glenn believes in "giving a hand up, not a hand out," so he put his hands to work at...
Citi Takes on the Summer Squeeze Challenge!
Citi has made a huge donation to the food pantry - including lots of canned fruit, our most needed item! Over 10,000 items weighing 6,686 pounds, were donated. They loaded it up, we brought it back, and needed extra volunteers to unloaded everything. Thank you, thank...