Lacy de la Garza | Email: ldelagarza@ccdallas.org | Phone: 469-801-8134

August 2022

Hello! My name is Lacy de la Garza and I serve as the Director of Parish and Community Relations at Catholic Charities Dallas.  With August comes a new school year, and many students are looking forward to school not just for learning, but for meals. 

Hungry children are often able to eat breakfast and lunch at school, but dinner is not always guaranteed. With the increase in food prices, we know that now more than ever, families need food. We want to continue to help meet this need.

Through our partnership with North Texas Food Bank, we deliver fresh food and produce to all 9 counties in the Diocese of Dallas with over 100 food drops each month across our mobile food pantry trucks. We also have multiple stationary pantries, including the Jan Pruitt Community Pantry in Lancaster, and the Container Pantry in Ennis.  With the help and support of communities like yours, we distribute over 150,000 pounds of food every week.

Would you consider supporting our efforts to feed the hungry year-round by hosting a non-holiday-based food drive at your parish or school?  We work to make hosting a food drive as easy as possible. We’ll drop off a food cart and then pick it up in the time frame of your choice.  You can even opt to host what’s called an “ongoing food drive,” which is as easy as keeping a CCD metal food cart in your narthex and calling us when it’s full! Then we’ll show up with an empty cart and take the full cart to distribute to the community.

CCD food cart

Whether you choose a one-time or an ongoing drive, know that these canned food donations are extremely helpful for us to stock our pantries. Through the partnership we have with NTFB, we enjoy a 2 per 1 rate of return for food collected to food distributed.  This means when your parish or school collects canned food for Catholic Charities, we can literally double your donation in giving healthy food to families in our community.

To become a part of the hunger solution and schedule a food drive, please contact Parish Relations Program Manager, Devyn Buschow at dbuschow@ccdallas.org.

Best wishes to all returning to school!  See you next month.