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New Salisbury Market Opens Its Doors

The Our Neighbors' Table Salisbury Market is officially open and serving more than 1,500 guests per week. 
Like the Amesbury location, Our Neighbors’ Table Salisbury Market offers a range of fresh fruits and vegetables, meats and staples like eggs, milk and bread.
The Salisbury location has absorbed all of the demand for ONT's services while the Amesbury location at 194 Main St., known as the Jardis-Taylor Center, undergoes of renovations.
The effort to create the Salisbury market from the ground up and shift thousands of pounds of food from Amesbury was a true community effort behind the strength of a small army of volunteers alongside our staff.
The market opening completes Phase 2 of a four-phase effort to expand capacity and distribution across the region once the Seacoast Regional Food Hub is complete.
Phase 3 will include opening  the renovation of the Amesbury market (the Jardis-Taylor Center) by the end of September, and Phase 4 will be the expanded procurement of surplus food in the community.
Watch for a ribbon cutting for the ribbon cutting for the newly renovated Jardis-Taylor Center on October 1!
By this fall, ONT will have both locations available to people in need. Imagine a food secure region!
Learn More About the Project Here
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Rally Your Networks - Who Wants a Tour?

Many say once they've had a tour of the Seacoast Regional Food Hub, they realize its full potential as a food resource for the entire region.
Do you know someone who would be inspired by our goal to create a food secure region?
We still need significant community investment to fund this vital project. If know someone who wants to invest in feeding neighbors in need, reach out to lesley@ourneighborstable.org. We'd love to show you around!

Partner Profile - Among Friends

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Bonnie Schultz, executive director, and Stuart Tuthill, treasurer, stand in Among Friends Meal Program's  recently renovated kitchen, which includes a new convection oven and chest freezer. Among Friends partners with ONT for food deliveries and more.
For 25 years, Executive Director Bonnie Schultz has been making meals for people in need at the Among Friends Meal Program in Newburyport.
Like so many food programs in the region, Among Friends had humble beginnings and still operates out of a small kitchen at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on High Street, where it serves an average of 350 meals a week. Thanks to a team of loyal volunteers, the program focuses on serving free prepared nutritious and balanced food three days a week – dinner on Mondays and lunch on Tuesdays and Fridays.
And while the need has always been there, Bonnie says in recent years her ability to meet that need has greatly improved. During the pandemic, the region’s food providers came together to form the Seacoast Food Providers, and started meeting monthly under the leadership of Our Neighbors’ Table and Executive Director Lyndsey Haight.
From those monthly pandemic meetings came the concept of the Seacoast Regional Food Hub to expand food storage and access for the entire region. Among Friends was one of the very first to receive their Greater Boston Food Bank delivery at the Hub, and Bonnie says it’s made an immediate impact.
“We were having to use ONT’s van to go to Boston, and find cold storage at Shaw’s or other places,” she says. “Now we use the van to drive over the bridge to the Hub. It’s nice and easy for us. It’s so exciting.”

Food Hub in the News

The Food Hub is making news! In recent weeks, we've had coverage from:
More media is in the works. Stay tuned!

Donor Profile - David Ives and Pam Burch

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​David Ives and Pam Burch want philanthropy to not only be a focus of their retirement years, but as a family legacy.
The Burch Ives Family Charitable Foundation was started in 2019 and two of the five trustees are the couples’ grown sons – Graham and Spencer. The Foundation supports a range of causes, but an area of specific interest is food security in their own communities.
For the Burch Ives Foundation, that has led to generous support of Our Neighbors’ Table through an annual grant over the past several years. When they heard about the Seacoast Regional Food Hub, they saw its potential and donated to the capital campaign from both their foundation and personal funds.
“The Seacoast Regional Food Hub project appeals to us precisely because it ambitiously pursues solutions to a vexing regional challenge,” Ives said. “That ambition is worthy of our additional support. Because we know that when this campaign concludes it will have addressed a vital need for the Lower Merrimack Valley to end food insecurity.”
Ives, who ran an international insurance consulting firm, says the hub checks all 3 boxes in developing a solution to a problem – viability, scalability and sustainability.
“At this time, in this part of the country, we have an abundance of resources,” David Ives says. “Food insecurity should not be a problem. There has to be ways to solve it.”
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Thank You Hub Donors!

​Greater Boston Food Bank, Inc.
SPS New England
Ward J Cromer Charitable Trust
Vania O'Connor
Institution for Savings Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Barbara O'Connor
George C. Wadleigh Foundation, Inc
Nathaniel and Elizabeth Stevens Foundation
Rogers Family Foundation
Kevin Murphy
Newburyport Bank Charitable Foundation
Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund
Patricia W. Levitt
Breakpoint Advisors
Jack and Jayne Weston
The Provident Community Foundation, Inc.
Burch Ives Family Charitable Foundation
Michael and Linda Jones
Edward S. and Winifred G. Moseley Foundation
In Memory of Nana and Papa Dolan
Jessa and Tim Haynes
Ralph Castagna
Yawkey Foundation II
The Osterman Family Foundation
Didax Educational Resources
Shauna and Matt Pieniazek
James D. Brown and Cynthia J. Hickey
Hilda and Charles Parrott
Eve Davis Lee
Tara and Douglas Moran
Mr. Stephen Lynch
Shane and Alissa Cough
John and Lisa Reppucci
Alec and Anne White
Marie van Luling
Darling Consulting Group, Inc
Michelle and John Morris
Steven and Jean Berger
Cell Signaling Technology
Christopher and Andrea Lee
The Shay Family
Theresa Rooney and Margaret Stewart
The Agnes M. Lindsay Trust
Michael and Amy Grigsby
Peter Drench and Anne Ferguson
Phyllis and Nick Orem
Clinton and Kimberly Furnald
Amesbury Health Care Charitable Trust
The Law Office of Karen M. Bolton
Gordon and Nancy Pugh
Bob Murciak
Patti and Michael Wendt
Sandra Clark
Rita Comtois
Anthony and Delia Rinaldi
Richard and Kathy Eaton
Groveland Congregational Church
Nancy Peace
Elliot Katzman
Joan M. Bukoskey and William C. Koch III
James C. Samuelson Foundation
Turco Legal, P.C.
Peg Brown
Dr. Thomas Liu and Dr. Spela Trefalt
Robert Kamen and Trudi Veldman
Ms. Jane Welch
Priscilla Morse
Barbara Roche
Peter and Patty Hoyt
Dorothy Leonard
Julie and Don Laruffa
Dan Abdulla and Mark Moquin
Joe's Playland, Salisbury Beach
Katherine Black
​Mary and Frank Condella
Brian Delaney
Ms. Regina Dugan
Jim and Patty Kraus
Stone Ridge Properties Foundation
John E. Lee
Mr. Robert Welch
Kevin and Kathlyn Prendergast
Simantha A Macleod
Dorothy Lumsden
Roger and Ann Locniskar
Stephen and Ann Amico
Gunter and Renate Kostka
Mel and Janet Woodman
The Suomi Family
Sean and Joan Maguire
Marie Roy and Susan Crawford
Flowers by Steve, Inc.
Barbara and Ronald Guertin
Alice Tonry
John and Carol Elwell
United Tool & Machine Corporation
Joe Frantz
Ms. Diane Montenegro
Ms. Emily Synk
Mr. David C. Smith
Elizabeth DiGiuseppe
Elisabeth Hart and Martin O'Toole
Suzanne Cote
Joan and Kevin Delahanty
James Gage
Anonymous
Jane Albert and Tom Salvo
Carole E. Wescott
Lynne Grimaldi
Thomas Pucillo and Ellen Cronin
Mary Gage
Courtney C. Lovett
Aileen B Sheehan
Ken and Sheila Taylor
John and Maureen E. Leahy
Philip and Kathleen Berman
Patricia Lynch
Michael and Kathleen Donohue
Donna Collins
Meryl Goldsmith
Lauren Wendel
Deborah Leyden
Mark and Susan Tiffany
Kevin Hunt
Suzanne M. Sheen
The Green Family
Connie Flanagan
Lois V. Poirot
Michael and Nancy Pollard
Robert L.Smith
Mark Richey Woodworking
Krista Yablin
Henry Cross and Patricia Mullen
Paul and Carol Sullivan
Norma L. Pizzo Rosso and Christy L. Rosso
Linda Brown
Susan Brown and Jen Anderson
Peggy and Brian Greenberg
Lisa Friberg
Robert Rudowsky, Jr.
Gloria Kuran
Robert and Donna L. Bastien
Alison and David McDougall
Connie Colussy and Joe Lynde
Richard and Regina Mansurian
Richard and Betty Emery
Gerald and Pamela Leblanc
Richard Bornemann
Mia Thurlow

Learn more at ourneighborstable.org/foodhub

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