Events & Campaigns
Summer Sandwich Program
For many of our neighbors, summer can be just as difficult as stark winters. While school is out, thousands of children lose access to reliable meals, leaving families, homebound seniors, and individuals experiencing homelessness facing even greater food insecurity. This summer, you can help change that through sandwich making or donations.
Help Caring for Friends provide fresh, homemade sandwiches to those who need them most. Whether you volunteer with your company, church, school, community group, or individually, every sandwich made helps feed a neighbor in need. Contact MBerk@caringforfriends.org for information on how you can help hundreds in Philadelphia this summer.
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Uncorked 2026: Supporting Caring for Friends
Saturday, April 18 at Overbrook Golf Club
Join us for an unforgettable evening at Uncorked 2026—a sophisticated wine gala dedicated to supporting Caring for Friends. Enjoy a night filled with fine wines, gourmet cuisine, engaging auctions, and inspiring company, all supporting an important cause. This is our second annual Uncorked and it promises to be bigger and better even than last year!
Purchase tickets and sponsorships online here: https://onecau.se/caringforfriends
Faces from the Party at Parx Casino on October 16 in celebration of our 50th Anniversary.
April 27th, 2025 we celebrated our volunteers at Parx Casino, for our Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast.
View their stories and pictures.
Check It Out NowHow Can You Help?
Find the many ways you can pay it forward.
Food and funds are down and every little bit of donations helps provide food and friendship to homebound, homeless, and hungry friends in our area. Now we offer different options to donate!
The resulting $10,000 can help us buy:
- feeds 700+ homebound seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities
- Every $10 helps provide five meals to a homebound neighbor in need – consider donating monthly
- 2,500 snack bags for people facing homelessness on the streets and in shelters
- Just $6 provides a day’s worth of meals to someone who might not have them otherwise
Caring for Friends has a variety of volunteer opportunities for individuals and groups of all sizes and ages. Help prepare meals in our kitchen, pack boxes in our dry line, or help us in the office or warehouse.
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We are always in need of frozen protein, canned items, as well as non-perishable foods. In addition, everyday pantry items—such as spices, herbs, and oils—are needed for us to keep a well-stocked commercial kitchen.
Most Needed Items
Groups can prepare these bags as part of a volunteer event in our location or theirs. Volunteers who help assemble snack bags will place 6-9 items in a bag for our homebound seniors, people living on the streets or in shelters, and children and their families in need.
Learn to Make Snack Bags
In everything we do, we strive to provide not just food, but also friendship. Sometimes, this comes in the form of a caring note – a hand-written word of inspiration to brighten someone’s day. We are always in need of caring notes from caring people like you! Learn more about these notes and how you can get them to us. *NEW: We now have Coloring Caring Note Templates!
You can easily create a fundraiser for Caring for Friends. Share it with supporters and encourage them to help you raise money on Facebook.
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