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Holiday Food Basket Application begin October 1, 2025. Holiday baskets include holiday meal food items and a grocery gift card. Baskets are limited; clients who apply for a food basket from another agency are not eligible. First come, first served. Basket recipients will be notified via postcard or phone of pick-up details.

Application must be completed in-person during Food Pantry hours: Monday & Friday 9 am-12 pm. Families may select either Thanksgiving OR Christmas while supplies last. Please one ONE basket per family per year.


THANKSGIVING BASKET DISTRIBUTION:

Thursday, November 20, 2025 (9 am-12 pm)

3928 12th Avenue, Moline, IL 61265


CHRISTMAS BASKET DISTRIBUTION:

Thursday, December 18, 2025 (9 am-12 pm)

3928 12th Avenue, Moline, IL 61265

Provides a sit-down Thanksgiving meal to those in need on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 2024, from 11 am-1 pm at the Community Center. emailing [email protected].

For more information or to request meal delivery: Contact Stacia or Jenny at [email protected].

Provides the City of Ankeny's annual Beggar's Night.

Toys for Tots holiday program, providing gifts for children.

For Christmas 2024:
The Toys for Tots Application is open from October 1st - December 1st at 4 pm. Apply online at www.heartlandunitedway.org/toys-tots-application-1

Distribution is Thursday, December 12th, 2024.

Heartland United Way works in partnership with the US Marine Corp each year to offer the Toys for Tots program. Children must be age 12 or younger and reside in the household.

Open to households in Hall, Hamilton, Howard or Merrick Counties in Nebraska.

2024 Holiday assistance includes Adopt A Child/Family and Christmas Baskets. Baskets are distributed at the Adair County Matura Neighborhood Center. Gifts are for children through 10 years old.

CHRISTMAS BASKETS: To sign up, call Nov 1-Dec 9, 2024. Registrants will be notified when their basket is available.

ADOPT A CHILD/FAMILY: Taking applications Oct 10-Nov 7, 2024. Please call the Adair County office at (641) 743-2424.

Food pantry with dry goods, meat, dairy, etc. May be able to accommodate other needs.

Offers Thanksgiving food boxes, available on a first come, first served basis.

Sign-up on the website Oct 4-18 2024

Provides an application for a holiday wish list for children ages 0-17. Community volunteers try to fulfill the wish lists.

Program provides clothing and a toy for each child. Registration also includes a sign-up for a food basket. Deadline to register for aid is November 14, 2024. Can register by going to their office during the food pantry hours and completing a form. Pick-up is December 16, 2024, from 9 am-12 noon.

Provides weekly backpacks of non-perishable food items to students during the school year, delivered directly to their homes. During the summer, students are provided monthly boxes of fresh produce and food for meals. Also, provides Thanksgiving and Christmas meals.

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Thanksgiving Programs
Summer Food Service Programs
Christmas Programs
Brown Bag Food Programs
City of Pleasant Hill Beggar's Night.

Thanksgiving community meal, served Nov 26, 2025, 11:30 am-1 pm. No registration is required; this is a sit-down, in-person meal.

Christmas assistance/toys and ham (in partnership with Toys for Tots). Registration open Oct 20-Nov 21, 2025. Sign up online at sacedarrapids.org, click on Holiday Assistance. Call for (319) 364-9131 for assistance if unable to do this. Households with children ages newborn up to 14 (on 12/25) can sign up for toys and a ham. Households without children eligible for toys can sign up for a ham.

Christmas community meal, served Dec 19, 2025, 11:30 am-1:30 pm. No registration required; this is a sit-down, in-person meal.

Offers gifts and food to those in need for the Christmas 2024 holiday. Reach out to the local County Outreach Office for more information regarding holiday help in the area.

Palo Alto County Outreach may provide holiday food boxes during Thanksgiving 2024 as well, depending on donations.

Holiday food baskets at Thanksgiving and Christmas Toy Shopping.

For Thanksgiving & Christmas 2024:

The 2024 Thanksgiving Food Basket Giveaway is held at the PCM Help Center (6800 P Street, Lincoln) on Saturday, 11/23/24. Giving away 500 Thanksgiving meal baskets to those in need, from 9 am-11 am or until supplies run out.


Free Thanksgiving meal at People's City Mission (110 Q Street, Lincoln). Serving a full Thanksgiving meal to not only all of the homeless in Lincoln, but to anyone who would otherwise be alone on Thanksgiving and could use a meal. Serving at 11:30 am-1:30 pm on Thanksgiving Day. Expecting to serve around 700 meals.

Santa's Workshop Christmas Toy Giveaway for families in need will be held at the People's City Mission Help Center (6800 P Street, Lincoln) on Saturday, 12/14/24 from 10:30 am-12:30 pm. Anticipating to help over 5,000 people, including shelter guests and low-income families who shop at the Help Center. Shoppers will need to have a Clarity card to participate. Clarity cards can be obtained at the Help Center each Tuesday from 9-11 am. No appointment necessary.

Holiday assistance includes Thanksgiving baskets, Christmas food, and gifts for children through 12 years old. Contact the Taylor County Matura office for more information.

For Christmas 2024:

-- Nemaha County - 12/20/24 11 am-4 pm. Gift card pick up at the Auburn Christian Church.

-- Johnson County - 12/16/2024. All day pickup (8 am-4 pm) of gift cards in Tecumseh office.

-- Pawnee County - 12/18/2024 9AM - 11:30 am and 1 pm-3:30 pm. Pick up of food and gift cards in the Community Room at the Village Apartments.

Offers a food pantry to those in need who live within the communities of Slater and Sheldahl. Food voucher given to be redeemed at Town and Country Market in Slater only.

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Food Pantries
Food Vouchers
Christmas Programs
Provides food baskets at Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter.

Thanksgiving 2024 meal deliveries to those who are in the following zip codes 50316, 50317, 50327, 50009, 50319. Thanksgiving meal delivery will be from 9:30 am-10:30 am, pick up will be from 11 am-11:30 am, dine in will be from 11:30 am-1 pm on Thanksgiving Day.

Christmas meal deliveries to those who are in the following zip codes: 50316, 50317, 50327, 50009, 50319 Christmas meal delivery will be from 9:30 am-10:30 am, pick up will be from 11 am-11:30 am, dine in will be from 11:30 am-1 pm on Christmas Day

Christmas reservations will not be taken until after Thanksgiving.

Reservations in English (515) 326-2685, reservations in Spanish (515) 343-6399.

Provides Christmas Dinner 2024 on Sunday December 22, 2024. Dinner go go boxes will be available for walk-up pick up at the front door from 12 pm-1:30 pm , follow the signs for vehicle pick at the side door on Dorgan Place. Delivery service will start at 11 am.

Please call Brenda at (563) 583-1779, Mon-Thu from 7 am-3:30 pm to order a home delivered meal. Deadline to order is Wednesday December 18, 2024.

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Thanksgiving Programs
Christmas Programs
City of Waukee Beggar's Night.

Matches low-income families with organizations that want to adopt a family for Christmas. Families provide a list of the wants/needs of the children. Registration runs November 1-3, 2024, from 10 am-4 pm and on November 4, 2024, from 10 am-2 pm.

City of Creston Beggar's Night.

Salvation Army Angel Tree Sign-ups will be online, to register, visit the website www.saangeltree.org. Registration for toys begins October 1, 2025 and will end November 15, 2025. If issues occur with the website or if individual doesn't have internet, call for further assistance. Can only sign children up that are ages 12 and under. (Salvation Army Angel Tree Program is a Toys for Tots program).

    Volunteers, community groups and local businesses donate materials, food, toys and skills for seasonal holiday projects for low-income families. Provides food packages and allowances to purchase clothes, shoes, coats, and household goods.

    Projects vary annually and by county office. Community members may contact their county BVCA office for details about local holiday programs.

    Provides a meal box which includes a turkey and all the fixings. Each box feeds a family of 4.

    Angel Tree, families can register to receive toys for children up to age 18.

    Registration for Christmas Distribution begins the first Monday of October and ends on the 2nd Monday in December each year. Go to SAAngelTree.org