MUM will once again benefit from the local Stamp Out Hunger food drive on May 14, 2022! MUM is delighted to announce that our new Executive Director, Dayna Brown, is now on board! Taste of Wheaton is back! Thanks to Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church!

Mark your calendar to attend a concert benefiting MUM on Sunday, April 24 at 4 pm at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church. Part of Cedar Lane’s Spring 2022 Series. The Stamp Out Hunger food drive returns this spring on Saturday, May 14, 2022! Stay tuned for more information as it’s available, and plan to donate food and consider volunteering to help! County Grant Funds Help Keep MUM Operating. As we continue to stretch our dollars and seek resources to keep our pantry stocked and funds available for emergency financial assistance, it is particularly helpful to have grant funding that helps us cover some of the other expenses associated with keeping the organization running.

MUM’s mobile pantry serves clients on four Sundays a month and offers assistance with eviction and utility cutoff prevention, as well as purchase of prescription drugs. We are grateful for the numerous individual, congregational, and corporate donors who make these services possible. We highlighted several grants last month and provide some updates here.

At this critical time when so many families in our community are still struggling through the lingering pandemic, MUM is grateful to have been awarded the grants outlined here, each of which will play an important part in allowing our services to the community to continue.

Thank you to all our supporters who provided financial and in-kind contributions, volunteer power, and good wishes throughout 2021 and now look forward with us to the new year! As we face the ongoing days of cold weather and the continuing pressure of the COVID pandemic, MUM continues to need all that support as we continue to serve neighbors in need.

I checked! I started my December 2020 message with this paragraph – “What a year this has been! Most of us are surely glad to see 2020 come to a close, as we say goodbye to a year that has been far from what we expected!” For many of us … and our neighbors most in need … this sentiment still applies!