Every Donation Helps

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 & Personal Care Items

Food and personal care item 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 will be bringing a large donation, please email us at info@auntdotsplace.com to arrange a drop off time.

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 and personal care items we distribute comes from donations. If you would like to host a food drive, email us at info@auntdotsplace.com. We can provide ideas and information to help get you started, and coordinate when you will drop off your donation to us.

Thank You!

Aunt Dot's Place would like to thank the following community businesses and organizations for their generous support in 2025. Last year, about 60% of the 259,000 pounds of food and personal care items we distributed was provided through food drives and food donations, and the remaining 40% was made possible thanks to generous financial contributions from individual donors and community partners.
  • 100+ Women Who Care Chittenden County
  • AD Lawton
  • Alliance Group Services
  • Apex Carpet & Upholstery Care
  • Autumn Harp, Inc.
  • Bauer Gravel Farnham
  • Bellcate School
  • Bellwether School
  • Ben & Jerry's Foundation
  • Bergeron Family Trust
  • Big Beautiful Life
  • Blodgett Ovens
  • BTV Local & Indigenous Fund/Pennywise Foundation
  • Burlington Telecom
  • Center for Technology, Essex
  • Champlain Valley Exposition
  • Chapin Orchard
  • Chittenden County Dairy Promoters
  • City of Essex Junction
  • Community Bank NA Foundation
  • Community Health Center
  • Costco
  • Dormition Orthodox Church
  • Downs Rachlin Martin, PLLC
  • Dragon Heart Physical Therapy
  • Dragonheart Vermont
  • Efficiency Vermont
  • EGO Salon
  • Essex Alliance Church
  • Essex Center United Methodist Church
  • Essex Connects
  • Essex Elementary School
  • Essex Football
  • Essex Free Library
  • Essex High School
  • Essex Junction Lions Club
  • Essex Junction Parks & Rec
  • Essex Middle School
  • Evergreen / AlderBrook Family Health
  • First Republic Brewing
  • Founders Memorial School
  • Grace United Methodist Church
  • Guy's Farm & Yard
  • Hannaford Essex
  • Heartworks
  • Heavenly Pantry at First Congregational
  • Helping And Nurturing Diverse Seniors (Hands)
  • Hoehl Family Foundation
  • Home Care Assistance of Greater Burlington
  • Indivisible
  • Intervale Farm
  • J. A. Morrissey, Inc.
  • Jericho Elementary
  • JP's
  • Keurig
  • Kinney Drug
  • Knights of Columbus
  • L4 Collective Community Garden
  • Lawrence Family Farms
  • Louise C. Mussen Trust
  • Magic Mann
  • Market 32
  • Matt Lumsden Real Estate
  • Max & Co.
  • Mazzella Group
  • McGillicuddy's
  • Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
  • MotoMedia Web Design
  • Mount Mansfield Union High School
  • Munson Family Foundation
  • National Life Group Foundation
  • NBT Bank
  • Nest Bakery
  • North Country Federal Credit Union
  • On Tap
  • One Credit Union
  • Paragon
  • Park Street Kuts
  • Partners in Adventure
  • Paul Frank & Collins
  • Peace of Mind Pilates
  • Pepperidge Farm
  • Perrigo Nutritionals
  • Pinecrest at Essex Independent Senior Living
  • Plant Station Pasta Co
  • Pomerleau Family LLC
  • Poorhouse Pies
  • Practical Magick
  • Primmer Pieper Eggleston & Cramer PC
  • Regal Gymnastics
  • Revision Military
  • RevRenewables
  • Richmond Food Pantry
  • Rotary Club Charities of Essex Vermont
  • Scout Troop 635
  • SeaComm Federal Credit Union
  • Shelburne Museum
  • Snowflake Chocolates
  • South Burlington Food Shelf
  • Spare Time Entertainment
  • Starbucks Foodshare
  • State of VT
  • Stewart's Bakery
  • Sweet Spot Dispensary
  • The Edge Kids & Fitness
  • The Essex Agency, A HUB International Company
  • The Farm Upstream
  • The WaterWheel Foundation
  • Timberlane
  • Town Fair Tire Foundation
  • Town Meadow
  • Town of Essex Yoga
  • Trader Joes
  • Trust Company of Vermont
  • Tuberville
  • Underhill Community Garden
  • Union Bank
  • US Postal Service
  • UVM Nuclear Med, Non-Invasive Cardio & Cath Lab
  • Vermont FoodBank
  • Vermont Mutual Insurance Group Giving Fund
  • Village at Autumn Pond
  • Walmart
  • Waterbury Common Market
  • Whitcomb Woods
  • Williston Primary Care
  • Town Fair Tire Foundation

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.