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Holiday Assistance Campaign

The 2024 Holiday Assistance Campaign is now complete!

The 2024 ACS Holiday Assistance Program numbers are in and we are so thankful for the incredible generosity of our community.

During the holiday season, ACS was able to provide 145 families with Holiday Hampers, serve an additional 34 households in the Food Bank, and deliver 110 Santa to a Senior care packages to local seniors.

Through the month of December, we proudly:

  • distributed 145 hampers, a 13% increase over last year
  • served 699 individuals, a 44% increase over last year:
      • including 336 children, a 40% increase over last year
  • distributed 18,017 lbs of food, a 33% increase over last year
  • served an additional 34 households in the Food Bank, new for 2024

Each hamper contained non-perishable food items, a frozen turkey roll, fresh carrots, potatoes, onions, essential household products, grocery store gift cards, along with toys and gifts for children (up to age 18). 

We could not have accomplished this task without the support of our amazing community. Thank you to the local schools, businesses, churches, organizations, and families that ran food drives, toy drives, or collected donations on our behalf. Thank you to everyone who donated non-perishable and fresh food, personal hygiene products, toys, gifts, or made a monetary contribution! You are amazing!

2024 hap program photos

We could not have accomplished this task without the support of our amazing volunteers who helped us collect and sort donations, assemble hampers, deliver hampers to families, and so much more.  In the hamper room and the office, we had 110 volunteers who provided 526 hours in support of the program. None of this work would be possible without your dedication to giving back to your community.

We also collected 19,872 lbs of non-perishable food donations, received approximately 440 specific gift items from tagged gift requests, and LOTS of toys and other gift items. Wow!

Thank you for choosing to Give Where You Live!

Santa to a Senior

We were able to distribute 110 Santa to a Senior care packages in 2024. These care packages are created and assembled by our Youth Engagement Program, The Net.

We thank them for all the hard work that goes into creating these care packages. Thank you also to everyone who donated to our Santa to a Senior program in 2024. Your donations helped bring some cheer to local seniors this past holiday season.

This program is a great intergenerational project, connecting youth and seniors.

2025 Holiday Assistance Program

The ACS Holiday Assistance Program provides food hampers and gifts to income-challenged families, individuals, and seniors in the community to make sure that no one gets left behind during the holiday season.

This fundraiser kicks-off on November 12th, 2025 and runs until the end of the year. There are many different ways to help. Details for the 2025 campaign will be available in the fall.

More Information

For more information or to register for this program, please click here.