Food Drives & Pantry Donations
Your support helps keep our community fed and cared for. You can:
- Give Financially — Monetary gifts allow us to purchase exactly what the Pantry needs, when we need it.
- Host a Food Drive — Rally your friends, neighbors, workplace, or faith community to collect shelf‑stable food and hygiene items.
- Donate Food or Hygiene Items — Every can, box, and essential item helps keep our shelves stocked for families in need.
Supporting Food Programs at The Caring Place is a powerful way to connect with your community, promote local services, and ensure a steady supply of nutritious food and essential items for our neighbors. We are grateful for every donation!
Explore Ways to Support
Click any box below to learn more about how you can help strengthen Food Programs.
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Start a No-Food Food Drive Today! Through our partnerships, The Caring Place can purchase over ten pounds of food for every pound a consumer purchases at the grocery store.
Monetary Gifts
You can now borrow a "Little Blue Barrel" and have a monetary food drive! Find out more here: caringplacetx.org/bluebarrel or make a monetary donation at caringplacetx.org/donate
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Check out a Big Blue Barrel and have your group collect The Caring Place’s most needed non-perishables and necessities. Perfect for schools, faith communities, and places of business.
Blue Barrel Food Drives
Food & Necessity Drives
To ensure we are filling the Food Pantry with the items we need most, we prefer assigning your group a particular item to collect during your Food or Necessity Drive. Why "Food & Necessities?" because we give out more than food - Think hygiene items, diapers, detergent, toilet paper and other basics.
Here's how we can help make your Drive successful:
- We can arrange to drop off and pick up a large blue barrel with The Caring Place logo or you can use your own boxes.
- If you are delivering your donations to The Caring Place, please utilize our north parking lot at 2000 Railroad and park in the Pantry Donation "RESERVED" space with the blue sign. We will come out to unload for you.
- Pantry Donations can be made during Food Pantry operating hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM and on Thursdays from 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM.
- You may also drop off in our 2000 Railroad Avenue drive through Monday through Saturday, 10 AM - 4 PM.
- If desired, we will email you a flyer to customize with your organizational information before your Drive. The flyer will include the item you are collecting for The Caring Place.
Email the following info to fooddonations@caringplacetx.org to reserve a Big Blue Barrel:
- Company/Organization name
- Contact person's name
- Contact Phone Number
- Address where the Blue Barrel will be
- Proposed Drop Off and Pick Up dates
- How many bins?
- Special Instructions
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Deliver food directly to our pantry warehouse. Whether a bag of groceries, or a large shipment on pallets, we can receive and distribute donations of any size and quantitiy.
Direct Food Donations
The Caring Place takes Pantry Donations* Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday in the north parking lot of our 2000 Railroad location between 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM and on Thursdays from 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM. Look for the blue Pantry Donations "RESERVED" sign to drop off your food and necessity donations. Pull in the reserved parking spot and someone will come to unload your donations. This option is preferred if you are making donations for groups and you need us to weigh and track your donations.
You may also drop Food Pantry Donations in our 2000 Railroad Avenue drive through, Monday through Saturday, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Why Financial Gifts Matter
Because of our partnership with the Central Texas Food Bank, and generous companies like HEB and Costco, we can stretch every donated dollar far beyond retail prices. Your financial gift allows us to purchase significantly more food than you could buy at the store, helping us plan inventory more efficiently and serve more families.
