08/31/2026
It's hard to believe that this year it's 25 years of Neighbors Helping Neighbors! A Quarter of a Century of the Pack the Pantry - Stuff A Truck for less fortunate Central Vermont Families! Pack The Pantry returns to Market 32 by Price Chopper this November 19th-21st! We've come a long way from those 2 sewn together queen size bed sheets from JC Penney with the words STUFF-A-TRUCK painted on them with black Krylon spray paint. One of the things that we are proudest of is the ability to bring people together to do an important job! This includes caring community business's who've become part of our Pack The Pantry Stuff A Truck Family! Everything needed to produce this event... and we do mean everything is donated! Ecept one thing.... A digital social media campaign to help us to continue to reach people and grow. Why? Well, mostly because you can ask Bellavance Trucking to donate a truck, You can ask Market 32 to give you some space and you can ask local restaurants to help you feed volunteers who spend 3 days there and never go home. You can even ask Star 92.9 for the airtime and promotion which is invaluable! .... But in todays digital world it all needs an accompanying digital campaign if you are going to continue to grow! At Pack the Pantry we know that the need certainly has grown....but you just can't call up Google and say: Will you donate some digital ads to help us reach everyone in Central Vermont. It just doesnt happen. So we are this year looking for only 2 community minded business to become a part of our Pack The Pantry - Stuff A Truck Family. To help us defray the cost of the digital campaign. Last year our digital campaign paid dividends 10 fold in the amount invested. So as we ask Central Vermonters to "Get Off Their Can!" for the 25th time, I ask your business: "Can We Count On You?" If you think the answer might be Yes! Please give me a call at 802-249-3570! Tj Michaels