On Christmas Day, over 1,000 volunteers were up early to help us deliver extra special Christmas joy to clients—a festive hot, holiday meal and a hand-decorated gift bag filled with full-sized toiletry items, socks, and a washcloth. These special gifts and friendly visits mean so very much to our senior neighbors we serve. 

Thank you to everyone who made the holiday season extra special!!

Dallas Sai Center, Plano Amateur Radio Club, Atmos Energy, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Dallas Mavericks, Carrell Clinic, British Telecommunications, Verizon, Another Round Dallas, Bank of America, Toyota, FedEx, Citi, JP Morgan Chase, Southwest Airlines, City of Grand Prairie, Halff Associates Inc., Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Sunoco, Restructure Corp, ISN, Vizient, KL Gates, Dallas ISD, Students Serving Seniors, United States Probation & Pretrial Courts, Halo Group Realty, Lil Danger Racing, St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church, Holy Spirit Catholic Church, King of Glory Lutheran Church, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Temple Emanu El, Deliverance Point Church, Northridge Presbyterian Church, United MegaCare, NCL Dallas, The Senior Source Senior Companion Program, UT Southwestern, Dallas College, VNA Staff, VNA Teen Board, VNA Board.

Thank you to everyone who made it a day on, not a day off, and participated in our 19th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service at Concord Church. It was a huge success!

Special thanks to the community groups who helped make this event possible: Concord Baptist Church; Greater Golden Gate Baptist Church; VoYagers; St. John’s Episcopal School; HPUMC Kid’s Ministry; Zeta Phi Beta – Upsilon Nu Zeta; McKesson; Jack & Jill Greater Frisco; Jack & Jill Southwest Suburban Dallas Chapter; AKA Omicron Mu Omega; Comerica; The Beck Group; Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, Highland Park United Methodist Church; Parks Cities Rotary Club; St. Joseph’s Catholic Church; Autism Treatment Center; First Christian Church of Garland; Christ the King Catholic Church; University Park UMC; YMSL Castle Hills; Plymouth Park Baptist Church; Holy Spirit Catholic Church; Keystone Church; YMSL Dallas; Episcopal School of Dallas; Episcopal Church of Good Shepard.

Every day is a great opportunity to bring joy and compassion to our senior neighbors in Dallas County who are in need! If you’re interested in delivering meals, please log into your portal and sign up for a route here.

Deliveries take place from 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM, Monday through Friday. Typically, meal deliveries take about one hour, making it easy to fit into your lunch break.

Don’t want to deliver alone? Feel free to bring a friend, family member, or co-worker to join you! We are always looking for new volunteers and groups to join the thousands of volunteers who are already delivering.

If you’re still looking for ways to get involved, we have a lot of great opportunities.

• Pet Food Packout Every 3rd Thursday from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
• Pet Food Delivery Every 3rd Saturday from 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
• Events can be found in your volunteer portal under the calendar tab.

Sign into your portal using this link https://volunteer.vnatexas.org/Login

We continue to work to provide additional resources for our Meals on Wheels clients. Currently, we are out of stock on the following high-need items for our clients.  Please consider donating one of these items today to fulfill these outstanding requests from our clients:

• Dry cat food
• Heaters

Visit our Amazon Wish List. These items will be sent directly to our VNA Haggerty Kitchen and delivered to our seniors.

We are always happy to hear from you and are here to help make your volunteer experience better! Thank you so much for choosing VNA Meals on Wheels!

Karri Hopper, Volunteer Engagement Coordinator

hopperk@vnatexas.org (214) 689-2209

Yakia McKinnie, Community Health & Engagement Coordinator

yakia.mckinnie@vnatexas.org (214) 689-2464

Ryan Jackson, Corporate & Community Engagement Liaison

ryan.jackson@vnatexas.org (214) 689-2653

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Established in 1934, the Visiting Nurse Association of Texas (VNA) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization providing care to our community, enhancing health and well-being with compassion, dignity and integrity. VNA is North Texas’ most trusted provider of quality health care services in the home and is the first, most experienced Hospice Care provider in Texas.  VNA offers Meals on Wheels in Dallas County, Supportive Palliative Care, and adult and pediatric Hospice Care in Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson, Henderson, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Navarro, Rockwall, Tarrant, Van Zandt, and Wise counties. Visit www.vnatexas.org or call 214-689-0000 for more information. 

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