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How to Help

Ways to Support Aunt Dot's Place

Make a Financial Donation

Every dollar makes a difference. Give today and help fill the plates of our neighbors facing food insecurity. Donate online at MAKE A DONATION or mail checks to:

Aunt Dot’s Place
PO Box 8216
Essex, Vermont 05451

Aunt Dot’s Place is a nonprofit 501c3 organization. All donations are tax deductible.

Donate Food

Food donations can be dropped off at Aunt Dot’s Place during our operating hours (Tuesday 6-7:30pm, Thursday 9-11am and Saturday 10am-12pm) at 51 Center Road Essex, Vermont.

If you have a large donation from a food drive, please email us at auntdotsplace@gmail.com to arrange a time for drop off.

Aunt Dot’s Place can only accept unopened food items that are within their best by date. Home grown garden vegetables are accepted. We cannot accept home cooked or home processed products.

Host a Food Drive

Organizing a food drive at your business, school or community group is a great way to support Aunt Dot’s Place. A little more than half of the food we distribute comes from donated food. If you would like to host a food drive, email us at auntdotsplace@gmail.com. We can provide ideas and information to help get you started, and coordinate when you will drop off your donation to us.

Milk Matters CampaignMilk Matters

Thank You!

Aunt Dot's Place would like to thank the following community businesses and organizations for their generous support in 2023. A little more than half the 200,000 pounds of food we distributed in 2023 was donated to us by individuals, community groups and businesses. The other half was made possible thanks to generous financial contributions.
  • 802 Fries
  • Addi Blood Drive
  • Addi's Big Beautiful Life
  • Alderbrook
  • Alliance Group Services
  • Arbors, Shelburne
  • beCAUSE Craft Show
  • Bellcate School
  • Ben & Jerry's Foundation
  • Bergeron, Paradis & Fitzpatrick
  • Bimbo's Bakeries
  • Blodgett
  • Box Car Bakery
  • Bouchard-Pierce
  • Calvary Episcopal Church
  • Cathedral Square
  • Champlain Valley Fair
  • Chapin Orchard
  • Colchester Alliance
  • Color Our World
  • Community Bank
  • Community Potato Patch
  • Costco
  • CVS Essex
  • Dollar General - Jericho
  • The Edge Sports & Fitness
  • EHS Center for Technology
  • Elevate Youth Services
  • Essex Alliance Church
  • Essex Center United Methodist Church
  • Essex Charitable Foundation
  • Essex Community Players
  • Essex Discount Beverage
  • Essex Fiber Fans
  • Essex Free Library
  • Essex/Westford Schools
  • Evergreen/Alderbrook Family Health
  • Farm Upstream
  • Feed My Starving Children
  • First Baptist Church
  • Fusion Volleyball
  • Global Foundries
  • Grace United Methodist Church
  • Green Mountain Power
  • Hannaford
  • Heartworks - Essex Center & Pinecrest
  • Helping And Nurturing Diverse Seniors
  • Hoehl Family Foundation
  • Inntopia
  • JH Stuart Associates, Inc.
  • Jericho Elementary
  • Jericho Settler's Farm
  • L4 Collective
  • Lewis Creek Builders
  • Magic Mann BTV Local & Indigenous Fund
  • Matt Lumsden Memorial Parade
  • MotoMedia Web Design
  • Munson Family Foundation
  • Murray's Tavern
  • Louise C. Mussen Trust
  • National Life
  • NBT Bank
  • Nest Bakery
  • North Country Federal Credit Union
  • O'Brien Electric
  • Old Dominion
  • One Credit Union
  • Partners In Adventure
  • Paul Mazza's
  • Peace of Mind Pilates
  • Pennywise Foundation
  • Pepperidge Farms
  • Pet Food Warehouse
  • Pete's Greens
  • Pinecrest Senior Center
  • Pomerleau Properties, Inc.
  • Poorhouse Pies
  • Price Chopper/Market 32
  • Prolytix
  • Revision Military
  • Rotary Club Charities of Essex VT
  • Saint James Episcopal Church
  • SEI Giving Fund
  • SeaComm Federal Credit Union
  • SeedMoney
  • Shaw's
  • Shred This
  • Sleepy Hollow Post & Beam
  • Snowflake Chocolates
  • Sparky's Bar & Grill
  • Speeder & Earl's Coffee
  • Stygles
  • Town Meadow Senior Center
  • Town of Essex 
  • Trader Joe's
  • Tuberville
  • Twincraft Skincare
  • Tyson Foods
  • US Postal Service
  • Velan
  • Vermont Cider Lab
  • Vermont Foodbank
  • Vermont Information Processing
  • Vermont Lake Monsters
  • Vermont Smoke & Cure 
  • Village at Autumn Pond c/o Appletree Bay Property Management
  • The WaterWheel Foundation
  • Whitcomb Woods

Milk Matters...You can make a difference!

  • $5 provides a gallon of milk for 1 family
  • $25 purchases milk for 5 families
  • $50 covers enough milk for 10 families
  • $100 buys milk for 20 families
  • $250 supplies milk for 50 families

Please donate today!

Financial donations can be mailed to:


Aunt Dot’s Place
PO Box 8216
Essex VT 05451


Financial and food donations can be made during our scheduled operating hours:

  • Tuesday 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
  • Thursday 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
  • Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.


We welcome all food donations. Please email us (auntdotsplace@gmail.com) to arrange a time to drop off  large food donations. We will be sure to have volunteers available to help receive the delivery.