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A Simple Gesture
The Cool Green Bag Program
A Simple Gesture is a door-to-door food collection program that will provide a steady supply of food to help feed the hungry in the communities of Paradise and Magalia, California.
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Drivers
Drivers pick-up your donations every other month and deliver them to local food pantries. It only takes a few hours each pick-up and is very rewarding. Contact Bob if you would like to become a driver
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Pantries
Volunteers at one of our local food pantries sort food donations. Green bags are picked up the second Saturday of every other month. This helps provide a steady supply of food to help feed the hungry in the communities of Paradise and Magalia, California. There are six local pantries that participate.
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Latest news
Giving on a Big Scale
The Wall Street Journal Reports
Starting a nonprofit in retirement doesn’t always require huge amounts of time and money. Jonathan Trivers runs a charity called A Simple Gesture, which has provided 500,000 pounds of free groceries to food pantries in 35 towns in the past three years.
And all it took was a good idea, a bit of organizing and the purchase of a few thousand reusable shopping bags.
Read the complete article at The Wall Street Journal
How can I start a program in my town?
We would be happy to provide you with a straightforward 'How to' packet so you can see if this idea is right for your community and what you would do to start this great program.
Watch the video to see how easy it is to start a program in your town.
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.A Simple Gesture joins with Curves International
Once a year Curves International runs a promotion for new membership. In March you could join Curves in Paradise by bringing in a grocery bag of food.
A Simple Gesture joined with Curves in Paradise and included members of Curves to bring their cool green bag to Curves to get a chance to win prizes offered by Curves.
The combined promotions brought in a whopping 2800 pounds of non-perishable food which was delivered to our local food pantries.
Thank you Linda Wolff, manager of Curves Paradise and a proud greenbagger and thank you to all the Curves members who brought in theircool green bags in March.