New Year’s Closures
Business office & Pantry (636 Old Post Rd) closed Monday, January 1, 2024 (donations are not accepted during business closures) Community Kitchen (50 Nichols St) closed Monday, January 1, 2024Schedule Your Christmas Tree Pick Up with Paul & Help Operation Hope
Are you looking for a little extra help to clear out your holiday clutter? Book a tree pick up from Paul at Ruscito Resolutions! 🎄Easy peasy! For just $20, your tree will be picked up at your convenience and taken to WeCare Denali for an environmentally friendly disposal. Your tree will be recycled into mulch compost and top soil. $5 of each tree pick up will be donated to Operation Hope! ❤️
For the second time, Ruscito Resolutions is picking up non-perishable donations with your tree pick up to help stock our Food Pantry. Tree pick up runs December 26 through January 16. Call or text Paul at 203-767-1582 to book your tree pick up. Thank you to Paul for this innovative way to help YOU, help a small local business and help our neighbors in need! Keep Paul in mind for other small jobs, such as dump runs, assembling furniture/sheds and other odd jobs.
Season’s Greetings from Operation Hope of Fairfield
Fairfield Board of REALTORS Helps Alleviate Homelessness during Holiday Season
For 8 years, Connecticut Association of REALTORS® Foundation, Inc. has supported Operation Hope by partnering with Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness in the “be homeful for the holidays” campaign. Since 2015, the campaign has prevented more than 1,600 children and families from ever having to experience the hardship of homelessness. Thanks to generous donors to this campaign, a child in Connecticut will stay safe in their home. And, for every $25 donated, the CT REALTORS Foundation will gift a plush Paddington bear to a child living in a shelter this holiday season 
We are grateful for the continued support from this dedicated group, and in particular, Mary Beth Grasso from the Greater Fairfield Board of REALTORS. Mary Beth is pictured here with Operation Hope’s Volunteer Coordinator, Michelle Stearns. What a sweet way to care for our littlest neighbors in need 
Pepe’s Gives Back – Operation Hope of Fairfield
Built on a family tradition of hard work and customer loyalty, Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana has long been inspired to help support their neighbors. Knowing its success comes from the community’s love of Pepe’s world famous pizza, the restaurant is thrilled to help the neighbors who have made Pepe’s such a great place.
For the past year, Operation Hope of Fairfield was fortunate to be one of the agencies that was part of Pepe’s Gives Back initiative. Our Community Kitchen, which feeds up to 50 people at lunch and dinner, Monday through Friday, received 10 pizzas every Tuesday to serve our guests. Our Community Kitchen relies on donations for the meals served, so this sustained donation has been such a blessing. For anyone who knows pizza and who knows Pepe’s, you are well aware what a treat this is, and especially for our Community Kitchen guests. Our guests loved Pizza Tuesdays! And often, dinner is the only meal many of our guests will have eaten that day.
We are eternally grateful for the kindness, generosity, goodwill and loyalty of the Fairfield Pepe’s location shown toward our neighbors in need and toward us. We appreciate the support given and encourage our community to return the favor by dining in or taking out at Pepe’s Fairfield this holiday season and all year long!
Christmas Closures
McKinley Daisy & Junior Girl Scouts Stuff Stockings for Operation Hope
Thanks to the McKinley School Junior and Daisy Girl Scouts for working together on a holiday service project stuffing stockings for Operation Hope 💚 Stockings were filled with daily essential items and will be gifted to our Community Kitchen guests at the holiday dinner on December 22 🎁Thank you to all of the troop’s families who generously donated items to the project and to Fairfield Public Library for hosting the girls.
Fairfield University Students Raise Money for Pantry
Thanks to this group of Fairfield University students for the cash donation of $145 from a cookie sale they did to benefit Operation Hope. These young women are part of the Build-A-House program at Fairfield University, and their house theme is “Table of Plenty,” which “represents their aim to combat food insecurity in the community.” The donation is intended for Operation Hope’s food pantry, where we can use it to purchase fresh produce, dairy and meats for our clients. Thanks to these young women for helping our neighbors in need!
It’s a Wrap for “Hope for the Holidays!”
It’s a wrap on our annual gifting program, “Hope for the Holidays!” Thank you for opening your hearts to brighten the holiday season for our neighbors in need.
Donations came from individuals and groups of all sizes, including families, school groups, co-workers, book clubs and friends. Your generosity made a direct impact on 75 individuals and 37 families ranging in size from two people to eight, right here in our community. Each client received $175 in gift cards. THANK YOU to over 125 sponsors, including 40 new ones!
And most of all, THANK YOU to our two angel volunteers, Meredith McCormack and Sheila Sullivan. Taking the reins from longtime Hope for the Holidays angel Evie Angel, Meredith and Sheila effortlessly made “Hope for the Holidays” a success, giving hope and joy to our clients in another challenging year.
New this year! Meredith and Sheila offered the opportunity for children to be involved and to add some personalization to the gift card packages. We are grateful to SASO Girls (Students Athletes Serving Others) for making over 100 cards for Operation Hope’s clients and for hosting two card-making workshops. These workshops were open to all Hope for the Holidays sponsors.
If you’d like to participate in the 2024 program, please contact Meredith and Sheila here to be added to the email list. We welcome new friends!
We wish you and yours the happiest of holiday seasons and a blessed 2024!
In Need of Full-Size Paper Grocery Bags for Pantry Clients
As you’re doing your holiday grocery shopping, we would love any paper grocery bags you can spare! We’re in need of full-size brown paper grocery bags to pack groceries and essentials for our Food Pantry clients. Handled and handle-less paper grocery bags, as well as Target bags, are appreciated! Please drop off Monday-Friday, 9am-4:30pm, 636 Old Post Road, Fairfield, and please do not leave donations unattended. Thank you for helping us feed and care for our neighbors in need!
OFFICE & FOOD PANTRY
636 Old Post Road
Fairfield, CT 06824
203-292-5588
info@operationhopect.org
OFFICE & DONATION HOURS
Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm
(donations accepted until 4:30pm)
Please do not leave donations at the door when the office is closed.
PANTRY HOURS
- Monday, Wednesday & Friday:
10:00am - 12:00pm - Thursday: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
OUTREACH & COMMUNITY KITCHEN
50 Nichols Street
Fairfield, CT 06824
203-254-2935
COMMUNITY KITCHEN HOURS
Meals served Monday - Friday:
- Lunch: 11:30am - 1:00pm
- Dinner: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
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