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WE ARE BUILDING A NEW HOME

Can You Help?

In response to an ongoing increase in food insecurity in Wellfleet, we expanded our operation every year – and quickly began to outgrow our previous home. Starting in 2023 the board searched diligently for almost two years to find a suitable new location with no success. Knowing there was a need for a food pantry, the town offered competition for a space near the Adult Community Center. Our bid was successful, the Town granted us a 99-year ground lease, and we are now building our new home at 715A Old Kings Highway!

Construction begins in October 2026 and will take approximately 10 months.

We have raised the $1.3 million needed to build the pantry. Now we are raising funds to finish equipping the building with properly sized freezers and fridges, new shelving, solar panels, and other needed supplies, as well as to meet unexpected construction cost increases. We are also forecasting annual operating expenses and are planning to set up an operations endowment.

Note: We are currently operating out of a temporary trailer in the parking lot of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church at 2282A State Hwy, Rt. 6.

Yes, you can Help! Please consider making a donation! Click the link to find out how.

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ABOUT US

The Wellfleet Food Pantry is a non-profit organization that has been serving our community since 1999. The Pantry provides food to more than 200 families (over 380 individuals), helping them through lean times and freeing a little money for other necessities.

The Pantry functions as a mini grocery store for those residents who need assistance in difficult times. We provide cost-free essential food items that include groceries, fresh produce, dairy, frozen meat, fish, and personal and household items.

Our shoppers, our neighbors: seasonal and low-income workers, members of our fishing community, single heads of households, the unemployed, veterans, elderly, children and the disabled, are people who we all interact with every day. They use the Pantry to help ease financial burdens. The Pantry relies on community support to ensure that those families can put food on their tables.

SUPPORT NETWORK

We depend on the Lower Cape Outreach Council support network to provide important social services.

The Lower Cape Outreach Council manages 9 emergency food pantries across the Lower and Outer Cape, including the Wellfleet Food Pantry.

OUR LOCATION

The Wellfleet Food Pantry is located in the parking lot of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church at 2282A State Hwy, Rt. 6, Wellfleet.

DIRECTIONS

SHOPPING HOURS

Monday 3-6 PM.
Wednesday 3-6 PM.
Thursday 10-Noon

(Closed on federal holidays)

DONATIONS

Your tax-deductible donations are greatly appreciated. We are funded almost entirely by private contributions and by the Lower Cape Outreach Council support network that also provides important social services.

FOOD: We use your gifts to purchase food from the Greater Boston Food Bank and local sources. Your generosity can make a real difference to neighbors who struggle to feed their families, leaving them with a bit more for housing, heat, clothing and health care.

PANTRY: In addition, your gifts will help us build, equip and maintain the new home we are constructing at 715A Old Kings Highway.

The Wellfleet Food Pantry is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Tax-deductible donations may be made by check to:

WELLFLEET FOOD PANTRY
P.O. Box 425
South Wellfleet, MA 02663

Or online by PayPal by clicking the DONATE button below.

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Monthly sustaining contributions may be made through PayPal or your bank’s bill pay program.

DAF GIVING

Click the button above to donate directly from your Fidelity Charitable, DAFGiving 360 or BNY Mellon account.

Donations of non-perishable food and garden-fresh produce may be brought to the pantry during operating hours, or may be left in the covered donation bin outside the Food Pantry entrance.