Mancelona Food Pantry and Resale Shop

10/24/2026

Come out and help support Abby! ❤️🫶🏼

10/21/2026

Exciting News for Mancelona Food Pantry & Resale!

We are incredibly honored and grateful to announce that Mancelona Food Pantry & Resale has been awarded a $30,000 grant from the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation!

This generous funding will go directly toward our Building Expansion Fund, bringing us one significant step closer to improving and expanding our facilities to better serve the growing needs of our community.

Over the past several years, we have witnessed a tremendous increase in the number of individuals and families relying on our services. As our community’s needs continue to evolve, so does our responsibility to ensure that we have the resources, space, and infrastructure necessary to meet those needs effectively.

Our planned expansion will allow us to increase food storage capacity, improve operational efficiency, enhance our facilities, and create a more welcoming and accessible environment for the individuals and families we serve.

This project is about much more than expanding a building. It is about strengthening our community, preserving dignity, and ensuring that no neighbor is left behind.

We extend our sincere appreciation to the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation for recognizing the importance of our mission and investing in the future of our organization and the people we serve.

We are equally grateful to our dedicated volunteers, board members, donors, and community partners whose continued support makes our work possible.

While we still have important fundraising milestones ahead, this remarkable contribution represents a significant step forward in turning our vision into reality.

Together, we are building more than a facility. We are building a stronger, more resilient community.

Thank you for believing in our mission and helping us continue to make a meaningful difference in Mancelona and the surrounding communities.

This project was partially supported by a Community Funds grant from the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, designed to be flexible and responsive to a variety of community needs and causes.

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10/12/2026

A huge thank you to the team at 4 Front Credit Union for helping at the pantry today! They took time to give back and we appreciate that. Helpers like this make it possible to keep the pantry ready to serve our community.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP 🫶🏼

09/10/2026

We are incredibly honored and excited to share that Mancelona Food Pantry & Resale was chosen to receive funding from the 100 Women of Antrim County!

What a blessing this is.

This money is so much more than funding for a building. It is an investment into the people who walk through our doors every single week.

When we started, we were serving around 600 people a month. Today, we are serving well over 900.

Those are not just numbers.

They are grandparents trying to make a fixed income stretch another week.

They are working parents doing everything they can and still finding themselves choosing between groceries, gas, medicine, or the electric bill.

They are children who deserve to have good food in their bellies.

They are our neighbors. Our friends. Our community.

Over the years we have worked hard to make our pantry more than a place where someone receives a box of food.

We have worked to provide more fresh food, real food and protein.

We have helped support community meals and other local organizations.

We continue to provide Christmas assistance so parents can experience the joy of putting gifts under the tree for their children.

We have partnered with the mobile medical unit to help connect people with healthcare and services they may otherwise go without.

And through all of it, our mission has stayed simple.

Love people.

Feed people.

Help where we can.

And turn no one away.

Our little building has been stretched farther than we ever imagined. We desperately need improvements, additional space, better refrigeration, safer flooring, electrical upgrades and room to properly store the food that comes through our doors.

This funding gets us one step closer.

One step closer to a pantry that can continue growing with the needs of our community.

One step closer to being able to say YES when someone needs help.

One step closer to making sure no family in our community feels forgotten.

To the incredible women who listened to our story, believed in our mission and voted for us, THANK YOU.

You may never personally meet every person your generosity touches, but please know that your kindness will be felt by hundreds and hundreds of people.

We are humbled.

We are grateful.

And we cannot wait to take this opportunity and turn it into something that will serve this community for many years to come.

Thank you, 100 Women of Antrim County, for believing in what we are doing.

And thank you to every volunteer, donor, business, organization and community member who has stood beside us.

This pantry belongs to this community.

And together, we are making it better ❤️❤️❤️

08/25/2026

Thanks to local farmers for their great donations to the community! We are so grateful for them sharing their hard earned harvest! THANK YOU

08/13/2026

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This position assists with the organization, storage, repacking, collection, and distribution of goods for Goodwill Northern Michigan’s Food Rescue program. It also assists with the upkeep of Food Rescue warehouse space and occasionally assists with the collection and distribution of food for the ...

08/10/2026

🎒 BACK TO SCHOOL BACKPACK SPONSORS NEEDED! 🎒

Mancelona Food Pantry would love to help make going back to school a little easier for a few local families this year. ❤️

We are looking for individuals, families, churches, or businesses who would like to sponsor a child’s backpack.

If you’d like to sponsor, call or text 810-246-0243. We’ll match you with a child and send you their backpack needs so you can shop specifically for them.

✏️ Mancelona Food Pantry will provide basic school supplies and help families with other basic back-to-school needs as we are able.

NEED A BACKPACK FOR YOUR CHILD?

We know back-to-school expenses can add up quickly. If your child needs help with a backpack or basic school necessities this year, please call or text 810-246-0243 so we can coordinate your needs.

Availability is limited, and assistance will be provided as resources allow.

Please share so we can reach both the families who need a little help and the community members who would love the opportunity to help a local child start the school year prepared. ❤️🎒

— Mancelona Food Pantry