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The Open Door

Events

Mobile Market

The Mobile Market provides qualified households with access to free fruits and vegetables at various locations in our service area.

Holiday Baskets

Holiday Baskets

The Open Door distributes baskets to registered families and individuals who need a little help setting the table for the holidays.

The Empty Bowl

Empty Bowl

Empty Bowl events are held nationally to generate awareness concerning hunger and to raise money for local hunger-relief programs.

Senior Soup and Salad

Find good food and good company around the lunch table at the Rose Baker Senior Center

Summer Meals For Kids

A 10-week program offering free meals for kids aged one to 18

News

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Food pantry offering drive-through this weekend

Gloucester Times
Jan 13, 2021

External web link - https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/food-pantry-offering-drive-through-this-weekend/article_2944cc71-11dc-51c1-8fea-9611d5be0040.html

Today's Worthy Causes

Gloucester Daily Times
Apr 23, 2020

External web link - https://www.gloucestertimes.com/community/todays-worthy-causes/article_5f709584-b9fe-5ba3-86a7-ac9e48ffdeca.html

From porch to page: Author's immigrant tale to benefit The Open Door food pantry

Author's immigrant tale to benefit The Open Door food pantry

Salem News
Apr 22, 2020

External web link - https://www.salemnews.com/news/lifestyles/from-porch-to-page-authors-immigrant-tale-to-benefit-the-open-door-food-pantry/article_5b81acc1-276e-514c-8ba2-45f032d71e5e.html

How to Help Locally During COVID-19 Outbreak

Gloucester Daily Times
Mar 22,2020

External web link - https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/how-to-help-locally-during-covid-19-outbreak/article_910c872e-229e-571b-910a-ed8f7b294d2f.html

How to Help On Cape Ann in Time of Coronavirus

Gloucester Daily Times
Mar 17, 2020

External web link - https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/how-to-help-on-cape-ann-in-time-of-coronavirus/article_033b541f-50e4-5b8c-8cec-72de81810f9c.html

Bootstraps Closed Through Tuesday; Food Pantries Adjusting Procedures Amid Virus

Salem News
Mar 13, 2020

External web link - https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/bootstraps-closed-through-tuesday-food-pantries-adjusting-procedures-amid-virus/article_f56f45a4-a20a-5df4-90e5-8b86d8178450.html

Filling a Bowl with Compassion

Salem News
Feb 20, 2020

External web link - https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/filling-a-bowl-with- compassion/article_c6926b5e-b983-5a15-9629-7d146e3bda8f.html

Open Door Plans to Expand

WickedLocal Gloucester
Feb 19, 2020

External web link - https://gloucester.wickedlocal.com/news/20200219/open-door-plans-to-expand

New 'Medically-Tailored Grocery Program' Opens Doors for Hungry

Salem News
Dec 19, 2020

External web link - https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/new-medically-tailored-grocery-program-opens-doors-for-hungry/article_51d2e9d0-e5b7-553d-b470-a3e209c6eae8.html

Cape Ann Today • 1623 Studios

Cape Ann Today • 1623 Studios
March 21, 2021

External web link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzQRIGeIGXE

Column: The Covid effect and the challenge ahead

Gloucester Daily Times

March 19, 2021

 

External web link - https://www.gloucestertimes.com/opinion/column-the-covid-effect-and-the-challenge-ahead/article_7ada8982-730c-5f20-96ea-e91ef38b3667.html

Group collects 500 pounds of essential items for pantry

Gloucester Daily Times

February, 24, 2021

External web link - https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/group-collects-500-pounds-of-essential-items-for-pantry/article_25c31685-8f1e-5c4a-ae8a-3e304fdeed92.html

Food Insecurity deepens across the state

Gloucester Daily Times

February 20, 2021

 

External web link - https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/food-insecurity-deepens-across-the-state/article_d64fa109-613e-5fb2-aac3-24d1759710f1.html

Food Pantry offering drive-through this weekend

Gloucester Daily Times

January, 13, 2021

External web link - https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/food-pantry-offering-drive-through-this-weekend/article_2944cc71-11dc-51c1-8fea-9611d5be0040.html

Dick Wilson honored for life of good works

Gloucester Daily Times

December 18, 2020

External web link - https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/dick-wilson-honored-for-life-of-good-works/article_bff3ec3f-c673-5971-b497-c43ee55b1f69.html

Open Door honors local philanthropist Dick Wilson

Gloucester Daily Times

December 15, 2020

 

External web link - https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/cape-ann-beacon/2020/12/15/open-door-honors-local-philanthropist-dick-wilson/3913721001/

The Open Door prepares for the holiday season amid the coronavirus pandemic

Cape Ann Beacon • Wicked Local

November, 24, 2020

External web link - https://www.wickedlocal.com/picture-gallery/cape-ann-beacon/2020/11/24/open-door-food-pantry-gloucester/6415206002/

Coronavirus changes holiday food drive

Gloucester Daily Times

November 20, 2020

External web link - https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/coronavirus-changes-holiday-food-drive/article_e28c52fd-217c-54c2-b4e3-d373c4bdfe78.html

Cape Ann Today • 1623 Studios

Cape Ann Today • 1623 Studios

November 18, 2020

External web link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DAP-jG-Jxk

SENIOR LOOKOUT: Malnutrition a bigger risk as we age

Salem News

October 2, 2020

External web link - https://www.salemnews.com/news/lifestyles/senior-lookout-malnutrition-a-bigger-risk-as-we-age/article_63d94ece-ef3c-5e20-942c-cd798557aed7.html

Food Drive Nets over 15,000 pounds for Open Door Pantry

Gloucester Daily Times

September 14, 2020

External web link - https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/food-drive-nets-over-15-000-pounds-for-open-door-pantry/article_41cd5d65-b83e-5fe4-8a60-48f6e3617aa8.html

Open Door awarded $85k for medically tailord groceries pilot

Gloucester Daily Times

July 7, 2020

External web link - https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/open-door-awarded-85k-for-medically-tailored-groceries-pilot/article_6c1b68d5-2bb8-5a6a-a972-dd7da0fcd98f.html

Open Door expresse thans with #MyBowlAtHome

Gloucester Daily Times

May 28, 2020

External web link - https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/open-door-expresses-thanks-with-mybowlathome/article_3e766ca1-1bb1-5a00-93c7-a9474b72c29c.html

Gloucester Stays the Course During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Northshore Magazine

May 19, 2020

External web link - https://www.nshoremag.com/faces-places/gloucester-stays-the-course-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Porch-rait' Project comes to close, raises $23,000 for Open Door

Gloucester Daily Times

May 4, 2020

External web link - https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/porch-rait-project-comes-to-close-raises-23-000-for-open-door/article_1cf5324b-d97f-5adb-9cd5-49e3a1049404.html

Community Update • 1623 Studios

Community Update • 1623 Studios

April 27, 2020

External web link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc4eO63ixRE

COVID-19: North Shore deaths recorded, cases up, rate of increase down

Ipswich Local News

April 15, 2020

External web link - http://thelocalne.ws/2020/04/15/covid-19-north-shore-deaths-recorded-cases-up-rate-of-increase-down/

Moulton's SOS America Act could provide a lifeline to nonprofits

Salem News

April 2, 2020

External web link - https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/moultons-sos-america-act-could-provide-a-lifeline-to-nonprofits/article_bb9f326c-8093-53fb-a5df-9c6906958d03.html

Gloucester-based anti-hunger organization to expand

Boston Globe

March 24, 2020

External web link - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/24/metro/gloucester-based-anti-hunger-organization-expand/

A vital need in the coronavirus pandemic: food

Boston Globe

March 16, 2020

External web link - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/16/opinion/vital-need-coronavirus-pandemic-food/

Amid coronavirus outbreak, food pantry services are 'more critical now than ever before

Boston Globe

March 16, 2020

External web link - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/16/opinion/vital-need-coronavirus-pandemic-food/

Coronavirus Update- Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry- March 15, 2020

Coronavirus Update • 1623 Studios

March 15, 2020

External web link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND34EpGINwE

Food pantries adjust to serve amidst virus

Gloucester Daily Times

March 13, 2020

External web link - https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/food-pantries-adjust-to-serve-amidst-virus/article_7201d8ad-9752-56f5-b36d-2f49470471f5.html

Open Door plans to expand

Cape Ann Beacon • Wicked Local

February 19, 2020

External web link - https://gloucester.wickedlocal.com/news/20200219/open-door-plans-to-expand

New SNAP rule limits access to food

Gloucester Daily Times

February 10, 2020

External web link - https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/new-snap-rule-limits-access-to-food/article_74d30bed-9f1d-52bd-944b-771c0ff3eb05.html

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