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The Buena Clinton neighborhood is a one-quarter square mile area of low-income apartments located on the southeast side of Garden Grove, California. This area had a history of high crime, open drug markets, overcrowding, and sub-standard housing. Over the past fifteen years, through the efforts of City of Garden Grove's Community Development Department, Police Department and Community Services department along with property owners and community based organizations, great strides have been made in the neighborhood.
Since 1998, the City of Garden Grove's Community Services Department along with the Buena Clinton Neighborhood Coalition has led efforts to provide Human Service programs within the community. These efforts are concentrated in three areas of emphasis; Youth Enrichment, Neighborhood Safety, and Community Involvement. The Buena Clinton Family Resource Center (BCFRC) is one of two (2) facilities within Garden Grove that provides various social services to the residents. There is a 2-part need for the Center.
PART #1 (cost of $1,500)
One item that BCFRC does not have is an Emergency In-House Pantry to help families that need non-perishable food or toiletries, including diapers on a last minute's notice. They need funds to purchase and install shelving underneath a stairwell and stock their pantry. The other loacal Family Resource Center currently has such an Emergency Pantry, but it is about 8 miles away and cannot help at those critical times. Because of the location and configuration of the storage area, shelving will have to be ordered to fit into that space. It is estimated that shelving will cost about $300 and an initial $1,200 to stock the pantry with non-perishable food and toiletries, including diapers (and to restock the Magnolia park Family Resource Center's Emergency Pantry). These estimates are based upon the cost to create the other emergency pantry at the other Family Resource Center in town.
While Rotary members will not be involved in the first phase of the project, they will be able to help install the shelving when it arrives. Rotary members will also assist staff with going to the various stores within the city to purchase the various food and toiletry items for the pantry. Rotarians will also help stock the new pantry.
PART #2 (cost of $2,000)
The second part of the organization's needs is to fund food drops from Second Harvest (food bank). Each food drop costs the Family Resource Center $250 to have the Second Harvest truck bring the food to their location and unload the pallets. They would like to do a quarterly food drop at each Center (Buena Clinton and Magnolia Park). Cost would be: $2,000 (8 food drops at $250 each).
The involvement of Rotarians would be to help with the unloading of the food; repackaging it into family size bags and helping hand out the food to the needy families at each food drop. This would occur eight (8) times during the year.
Addendum to Project Description (added after the project was signed)
PROJECT START DATE & COMPLETION DATE
October - Order shelving for Emergency Pantry
November - Pantry shelving installed
November - Purchase no-perishable food, toiletries and diapers for new emergency pantry and restock other Family Resource Center pantry (Rotarians assist with shopping)
November (mid)- Deliver of 1st food drop from Second Harvest at both Family Resource Centers in time for holidays (Rotarians help package and handout food to needy families)
December (or January) - Delivery of 2md food drop from Second Harvest at both Family Resource Centers (rotarians help package and handout food to needy families)
March - Delivery of 3rd food drop from Second Harvest at both Family Resource Centers (Rotarians help package and handout food to needy families)
May/June - Deliver of 4th food drop from Second Harvest at both Family Resource Centers (Rotarians help package and handout food to needy families)
BUDGET
Purchase Shelving $ 300
Stock New Emergency Pantry $1,200
(restock 2nd Emergency Pantry)
Second Harvest Food Drops $2,000
(4 drops at each Family Resource Center)
(8 drops at $250 each)
Total $3,500
PUBLIC IMAGE
In conjunction with Family Resource Center
1. Provide press release to newspapers and community sites
2. Obtain photos of Rotarians working at purchasing and stocking Emergency Pantries and post on various community websites and local newspapers.
3. Obtain photos of Rotaraians working at food drops bagging up food and handing out to recipients. Distribute to various community websites and local newspapers.
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