Applying for Grants

We apply for grants from many organizations.  Some may want to know how may senior adults we serve.  Others may want to know how many school-aged children.  By having birthdates of family members on file, we can quickly come up with these numbers when applying for grants (funding) from organizations interested in helping support us.  The South Hall Community Food Pantry never shares your specific personal information with anyone.  Pieces of your information (ages, for example) are only used to compile general information that can be used for reporting and for applying for grants.

2nd: What info we need from you

• We need to see some form of government identification to prove that you are who you say you are.  This can be in the form of a driver’s license or a passport.

• We need your current address, even if it’s different from what’s on your ID.

• We need the names (or nicknames) and birthdates of everyone for whom you’re collecting food.  If, for privacy sake, you’d rather give us a nickname and an age, we can use those.  (We’ll give your family member a birthdate of Jan 1st in whatever year they were born.)  Again, our need is to have a ballpark idea of how many people in each age group we have served.  We’re really not interested in knowing all of your personal information.

• We don’t need to know how much money you make or what your expenses are.  Other agencies within our network might, but we don’t.  If you only visit our Food Pantry, you won’t be asked for further details.  We don’t collect information about ethnicity or gender either.  If you’d like to share it, that’s fine, but you’re not required to do so.