Community Resource Center of Punta Gorda INC.

10/27/2026

Participate any way you can. This is an awesome event that happens every year has happened for the last 17 years in a row. Please participate if you can. There are approximately 20 to 30 30 food pantries/ social service agencies and our Charlotte County area that benefit from this every year in some way shape or form. So please come to this event with a turkey or money to give for turkey on November 12th between 4:00 and 7:00 p.m.

T-Shirts for Turkeys is BACK! Join The JOY FM November 9–12 and help make the holidays brighter for families in need! Just bring a frozen turkey to a drop-off location near you, and we’ll thank you with a brand-new JOY FM T-shirt! Best of all, every turkey stays right in your community, helping local food banks and shelters serve holiday meals to those who need them most. Find your nearest stop and see the full schedule at thejoyfm.com!

10/27/2026

An awesome event that usually benefits us "Community Resource Center of Punta Gorda INC" in some way each year. Please participate if you can. In any way you can.

07/13/2026

I went to the state capitol to fight for free school lunches and free school breakfast for every kid that went to Charlotte County public schools. The program lasted until now, but as of this year there is no longer free blanketed over all the schools. They are back to the way before where you applied for reduced or free lunches. The income limits for that are enormous. It's like to get free lunch. It's you have to make less than $3,000 a month and to get reduced lunches as long as you make less than $5,000. A month in that neighborhood is where the incomes are so it's very doable. It's not the blanket we fought for but it is an ability for kids to get lunch and breakfast at school like they have been doing so. Anyway, here are some information I'm going to add to this. I don't know if the link will carry over but you can at least see what to look for to get the information. I hope it helps anyone who thinks that this is going to affect them or has kids in school here in Charlotte County.

05/08/2026

So tomorrow's the day for stamp out hunger the post office's version of food drive where you leave a bag of food at your mailbox for the mail carriers to pick up. They leave you a trash bag or bag like you would get at Walmart to take your stuff home. It says step out hunger on it and a postage card that explains their little food drive and tomorrow is the day they want you to do it. That stuff was left in the mailbox yesterday. I have here a picture of the bag and I have a picture of my little donation with the postcard in it and I'm asking everybody I know to leave any of the things in your cabinets that you don't typically eat or won't eat in one of those bags at your mailbox and help all the food pantries that they assist out with giving them food to distribute to their clients. Now I am not on the list so I am not doing this to gain anything. If you wish to donate food items to me just give me a call and I'll come pick them up. This is stamp out hunger and I do know that the mail carriers make a contest out of it and I think each post office gives a gift card or something to the mail carrier who brings in the most canned goods. So give it some thought.

05/07/2026

This is a sad day. I found out that the homeless Coalition/care in Port Charlotte is no longer serving hot meals to the homeless not in their shelter. A lot of the homeless people living in their tents not just in their area but around our County go there for a hot meal if not everyday then several times a week. I sent people there yesterday and I feel bad because from Punta Gorda to cycle or go all the way out to Murdock is a crazy thing to have went through to get a hot meal and them not have one. I called this morning And I asked them was this correct that they had stopped serving hot meals for the people in the community and were only doing it for those in their shelter? And I was told yes they are having staffing issues and can't do it right now until they get it worked out. So I said I will see if I can get some people to volunteer to come help. I was not replied to whether or not that was a good idea but I would like to still try.

Please anyone who's reading this if you think you could volunteer out at the homeless Coalition or Care Center as it's known of now, even if it's just one day a week. Please give them a call and see if it would help. That is a very sad day that the homeless in our community can't go there for a hot meal. It's the only place in town they can.

04/22/2026

New signage hopefully more understandable.