Our Partners
It Is Not Me, It Is We
A volunteer organization with no paid staff cannot do any of this alone. Every program on this site exists because a business, a school, an agency, or a neighbor said yes.
People helping people, with no corporate influence in between.
Why Partnership Matters
We Do Not Do This Alone
Bestowing the Basics is entirely volunteer-driven. We have no paid employees and no corporate parent. What we do have is a network of partners who lend us space, product, expertise, transport, and trust.
A grocery chain that would rather feed people than fill a dumpster. A cafe that opens on a Friday evening in January. A fire station that lets a pantry stand beside it. A school nurse who tells us what her students actually need. That is the whole machine.
Who We Work With
Our Partners
ABC Food Bank
30355 N Third Street, Athol — open Tuesdays, 9 AM to 12 PM and 1 PM to 3 PM. We make deliveries every week of the year, and help host collection drives, plan events, and keep the shelves stocked.
We are grateful to Charlotte and her team of volunteers, who welcome our help and make the arrangement work.
Athol Dollar General
Shortly after they opened, we formed a partnership aimed at avoiding waste and feeding neighbors who need it. Every Tuesday, and any time they call, we collect hundreds of items and route them to the food bank and directly to families.
In the first three years of that partnership alone, over $150,000 worth of goods has gone back into our community.
City of Athol & the Athol Community Center
The Athol Community Center hosts the majority of our outreach events through the year, and keeps one of our donation bins.
The Country Boy Cafe
Co-hosts our free monthly Community Meal on the second Friday of each month, 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM. Not tied to need — just a place for the community to gather and eat together.
Wyatt Dean Structures & Selkirk Fire Rescue & EMS
The free Careywood Community Pantry — open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to anyone who needs it — was made possible by partnering with these two. One built her, the other gave her a home beside the fire station.
CoPow Foods & the Brighter Life Foundation
Healthy, locally sourced, prepackaged meals with a protein, a starch, and a vegetable — microwavable, gluten free, and dairy free. No matter your circumstances, no questions asked.
Period Positive Program
All 11 schools in the Lakeland 272 School District receive period pouches, and Lakeland elementary nurses use them in their annual 5th grade Growth and Development class. Timberlake Middle School took our first free hygiene cart in April 2024. The program now reaches Coeur d’Alene as well.
At Athol Elementary, school counselor Heather Hamilton works with us to get Emergency Aid to families hit by sudden hardship.
Our Drop-Off Hosts
Athol Community Center, Athol P1FCU, and Farragut State Park Visitors Center all keep a collection bin for us — at no charge, on their own floor space.
Join Them
Ways to Partner With Us
Partnership does not require a budget line. Most of what our partners give us is something they already had.
Host a Collection Bin
Give us a few square feet of floor space. We supply the bin and the signage, and we empty it.
Sponsor a Program
Underwrite a school’s hygiene carts for the year, or a season of community meals.
Donate Product or Surplus
Overstock, short-dated goods, discontinued lines, hotel and travel-size amenities. We will collect.
Donate Services
Printing, storage, transport, photography, accounting, trades work. In-kind services stretch us further than cash.
Match Employee Giving
Match what your team gives, or offer them paid volunteer hours with us.
Run a Drive Together
We will help you produce a collection drive at a retailer from start to finish.
Get in touch
Call us at (208) 561-5050, or email us here, and tell us what you have in mind.
We will talk it through
A short conversation about what you can offer, what we are short on, and where the two overlap.
We make it easy
Bins, signage, flyers, needs lists, pickup schedules — whatever the arrangement needs, we handle the logistics.
We tell the story
Photos, numbers, and recognition, so your customers and your team can see exactly what came of it.
Let Us Work Together
If you have space, surplus, a skill, or a room full of people who want to help — we would love to hear from you.
Call us at (208) 561-5050