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Dumplings4All
Published on September 26, 2023 by Jes Vasquez
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE DUMPLINGS 🥟 🥟 🥟 You can get your BODO (buy one donate one) dumplings from Crunchikn Center City now through Saturday. Order delivery directly on...
September with SPCF
Published on September 12, 2023 by Jes Vasquez
Hello, neighbor! Now that summer is over, South Philadelphia Community Fridge (SPCF) is filling up the calendar! Today, September 12, Point Breeze Collective kicks off a food drive for SPCF that they will h...
Heat Wave in Philadelphia
Published on September 5, 2023 by Jes Vasquez
While a heat wave rolls through Philadelphia this week, we’d greatly appreciate physical donations of drinks, popsicles, and fruit at the fridges and pantries!! We reimburse up to $50/location stocked; instructions of reimbursement are in o...
August Funds
Published on August 30, 2023 by Jes Vasquez
Hello, neighbors! In August, we received $4,474 in donations!! This was made possible by one-time and monthly donors, grant funding, a portion of the day's sales at Batter & Crumbs, as well as a local soccer fan club that donated over $...
Hey there fridge friends! We're currently raising funds to purchase school supplies for students in South Philly - we've raised $234 already (thank you donors!) and have just $266 left to go. You can send funds to the schoo...
July Funds!
Published on August 9, 2023 by Jes Vasquez
From July 1 - July 31, we received $3,615 in donations, that’s $3,474 into our account after processing fees and a total of 133 donations 🥳 Thank you to every neighbor who contributed and a very special shout out to our NINETY-TWO monthly...
Hot fridge summer
Published on July 21, 2023 by Hanna
Hello, hello South Philly! We hope everyone is keeping cool this summer. Here’s a belated June update from your fridge friends. Last month, we raised $2,228. As of today, we have $2,380 in our account. On W...
It's finally summer -- the temps are heating up and our fridges and pantries are ready to be stocked with groceries for our neighbors! Thank you for a wonderful May here in South Philly. As of today, we have $7,260.86 in ou...
Happy Spring, fridge friends! 🌻 We're celebrating a season of abundance for the South Philly community fridges. What a month it's been! As of today, we currently have $11, 785 in our account and are working hard to fill fr...
Sharing the Love in February!
Published on March 8, 2023 by Victoria Jayne
February was a blockbuster month for feeding our neighbors at South Philadelphia Community Fridge! With the enormous influx of funds we received at the end of 2022, we were able to spend $7,803.52 on food i...
Happy January from SPCF! 🍎
Published on February 11, 2023 by Kathryn Nolan
Happy 2023 from the South Philly Community Fridges! We raised $3,768 in the month of January! Given how abundant the end of the year was, we still have over $5,000 in our account – thank you again for making the end of last...
December 2022 Update!
Published on January 15, 2023 by Victoria Jayne
Happy New Year, Fridge Friends! We hope you're enjoying an abundant 2023. We are thrilled to share with you that December of 2022 was a historic month for South Philadelphia Community Fridge! We strongly believe in "showing our work,'" and...
A truly abundant 2022!
Published on December 20, 2022 by Kathryn Nolan
2022 has been an amazing year -- thanks to all of you! This was an incredible year for the South Philly Community Fridges! We began using Open Collective (after closing out our Venmo accounts) in mid-January and have seen...
Abundance in November!
Published on December 11, 2022 by Victoria Jayne
Happy Holidays, Fridge Friends! As always, we are so deeply grateful for your support of the South Philadelphia Community Fridge. November was a remarkable month for us in many ways. We had incredible success in raising funds, held a raffle...
October Abundance!!!
Published on November 11, 2022 by Victoria Jayne
Hello Fridge Friends! We have a spectacular update for you about what we were able to accomplish with your support in the month of October. We raised a historic amount of money in October- an incredible $9,...
September Update 🍂
Published on October 13, 2022 by Kathryn Nolan
Hello Fridge Friends! The leaves are changing and neighborhood stoops are getting decorated with pumpkins…which means we’re looking forward to an especially abundant autumn, thanks to all of you! We raised $1,902 in the mon...
August Gratitude
Published on September 13, 2022 by Kathryn Nolan
Hello Fridge Friends! We can't believe it's already back-to-school season -- and we're feeling extra grateful for an awesome August. We raised $3,983 in the month of August! This includes receiving a grant from PENN Medicin...
July Gratitude
Published on August 6, 2022 by Victoria Jayne
Hello Fridge Friends! We hope you're having a beautiful summer. We are full of gratitude for your unwavering kindness and support in the month of July. We raised a stunning $3,500.21 in the month of July! This includes a co...
Thank you for making June a month truly filled with abundance. And we had a lot happen, so let’s get into some awesome updates! Because of your generosity, we were able to reimburse 17 fridge fills in the month of ...
An Ah-May-Zing May!
Published on June 10, 2022 by Victoria Jayne
Hello Fridge Friends! Can you believe it's summer already? Technically summer starts on June 21st, but it feels like summer outside! In the month of May, we continued to feed our neighbors with your generous partnership. We receive...