Come get groceries.
Nobody will ask why.
Once a week, anyone in the county, no ID and no paperwork beyond one signed line at the desk. You pick from the shelves what your household actually eats. We are in the old hardware store at 61 Quarry Road, run by about 110 neighbours and two staff.
What we need
Updated Friday 18 September by the pantry. Lines drop off by themselves after their date.
Drop off during opening hours. Nothing opened, nothing past its date, nothing home-made — the why is on the Give page. Or host a drive and print the flyer.
Anyone in the county, once a week
No ID. No proof of income. No appointment. You sign one line at the desk saying your household needs food; that line is the whole form, and the Get food page explains it in plain words and in Spanish.
Choose from the shelves with a points guide by household size, the way you would at a store — except nothing is for sale. Kids, seniors, people who work days: the evening and Saturday hours are for you.
The old hardware store, 61 Quarry Road
Brick front, a ramp at the door, a bench, and shelves that once held paint and nails. Carts and baskets by the door; the desk is straight ahead. Bus route 2 stops at the corner. If you cannot come in, say so at the desk and a volunteer walks the shelves with you or packs a cart to your car.
About 110 volunteers, two staff
The truck, the shelves, the desk, the drives — almost all of it is neighbours giving a few hours a week. The pantry never photographs the people who come for food; the volunteers below agreed to be shown at work.
Receiving the truck Tuesday at 9, sorting Wednesdays, distribution Tuesday, Thursday evening and Saturday morning, drivers for the Friday route. Full shifts stay listed so you can see the whole week.
Your organization, your dates, our drop-off hours and this week’s needs list, on one dated sheet you can pin up. The list on the flyer is the list on this page.
Counted at the desk every visit, weighed at the door, reported to Three Rivers Food Bank by the 15th. The year, the monthly table and how each number is counted are on the Numbers page.
Where the money goes, in one minute
Sample video. Quarry Road is invented, so it has no footage of its own: the clips are free stock, no client and no face is shown, and the narration is a synthetic voice. For a real organization connectNPO uses only the photos and clips its staff send.
A Saturday morning, what the cash buys, and what the year added up to — the same figures published on this site and in the sample Form 990: 1,380 households, 612,000 pounds, 65¢ of cash a pound.
Made by connectNPO, who built this site. Up to five short videos a year are part of the plan.
Built for a food pantry, not a store
Quarry Road Food Pantry is invented. The features are real and working, and each one is an example of what connectNPO builds for nonprofits. The other sample sites: Youth arts → · Scholarships → · Community theatre → · Youth center → · Youth soccer → · Counseling → · Animal rescue → · Free clinic → · Resource directory → · House museum → · Domestic-violence services → · Fair-wage ledger → · Soil cleanup → · Land trust →
Hours and closures, typed once
Three opening days and a few closures on one staff sheet feed the home page, Get food, the footer, what Google reads and a line for the Business Profile. “Closed today — opens Saturday 9 a.m.” is computed, never typed.
When we are open →What we need this week
Out, low or enough, with a date each line expires. Home, Give and the drive flyer read it; a stale line drops off by itself.
The needs list →Shifts by distribution day
Receiving, sorting, distribution, drivers. Full shifts stay listed; a one-off date vanishes when it has passed.
This week’s shifts →Host a drive, print the flyer
A dated flyer with the host’s name, the drop-off hours and this week’s list, made from a form that sends nothing.
Make a flyer →Get food, written for the person coming
What happens, what to bring (nothing), the line you sign explained with its source, a Spanish summary, a reservation slot in demo mode, and links to 211 and other pantries.
Get food →Numbers with their method
Households, people, visits and pounds by month, the year added up from the months, and where the food comes from. Every number says how it was counted.
The numbers →Financials and the USDA statement
Three 990s, a review and the letter as labelled samples; donated food valued on its own line; TEFAP status; the nondiscrimination statement in full.
Financials →The staff side
One menu for hours, closures, the needs list, shifts, the monthly numbers and documents, with a needs-attention list and a Google Business Profile hours line to paste. Signs you in as sample staff; nothing you change is saved.
Open the staff preview →