Make a Donation
Your support enables us to keep all our programs operating, meet increasing demand, pay our awesome staff, maintain our equipment, plant our gardens and take care of all the day-to-day expenses of running a nonprofit.
Providing Essentials for Those In Need
LCS helps individuals and families address food, housing, and other essential needs with dignity and respect. LCS has been serving low-income families in Wilmington and New Castle County, Delaware since 1959. Below are services that we provide for our community.
Help with past due rent, mortgage and utility payments, as well as assistance with security deposits.
A variety of healthy and nutritious food for your whole family from one of our food distributions.
From Emergency to Empowerment, learn what's new in our community!
An annual tradition of sharing Christmas spirit, Westminster Presbyterian Church provides 30 Christmas bags with holiday treats and gift cards to LCS families.
While the weather stays mild, LCS food pantry clients, staff, and volunteers enjoy chatting together outside while clients wait for their food orders.
Food Bank of Delaware is pilot testing the use of DoorDash out of our St. Stephen’s food pantry to deliver food boxes to Wilmington residents.
Make a Donation
Your support enables us to keep all our programs operating, meet increasing demand, pay our awesome staff, maintain our equipment, plant our gardens and take care of all the day-to-day expenses of running a nonprofit.
Volunteers Needed
We are able to serve the number of people that we do because of our awesome volunteers! There are meaningful opportunities to help in each one of our program areas, as well as our garden, in the office and at events.
Food Drives
The demand for food is at an all-time high due to the economic disruption from the COVID-19 crisis. You can help supplement our food supply by donating items that we need or organizing a food drive to collect those items.
Become a Sponsor
We offer opportunities for small businesses and large corporations, with a broad range of packages and amenities for all our events.
Basic needs such as stable housing, food, clothing and to access medical care are important determinants of health and well-being. Poverty rates, in combination with lack of sufficient affordable housing, has made securing even the most essential needs difficult for many people in our area. This has a profoundly negative impact and individuals and families, as well as the larger community. The COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated this situation, and shined a further spotlight on the need and inequities that exist.
There are many ways LCS measures success – the number of people we serve, the economic benefit of our services, the prevention of escalating consequences, and the impact on people’s lives. Some things can be measured specifically, and others depend on an individual’s circumstances. Success looks different for each one of our clients. We use a blend of statistics and personal stories to help us measure our impact. Through working with clients every day, we know that the impact of preventing homelessness, providing nutritious food, and creating access to health services is substantial.
People assisted in 2020 with rent, mortgage, utilities, and security deposits.
Visits to our food pantries in 2020
Total amount we save all our clients in food costs every year
Annual savings for a pack a day smoker who quits
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LCS helps individuals and families address food, housing, and other essential needs with dignity and respect.
Address:
2809 Baynard Blvd.,
Wilmington, DE 19802-2967
Phone:
302 654-8886
Hours: Monday thru Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. | United Way #0719