Dot Foods Delivers Supplies to Local Food Pantries

The Dot Foods Vidalia Distribution Center donated $36,000 in food and supplies to six local food pantries, delivered on the mornings of September 15 and September 17.

“Dots’ donation will help us to continue to support seniors, working families, children and other individuals experiencing financial hardship,” Bread of Heaven’s Jennifer Stephens. “This gives them reassurance that their community cares.”

The six organizations selected in the Vidalia area include Evergreen True Vine Church, God’s Storehouse, Vidalia Church of God, Southeast GA Community Projects, Bread of Heaven and Mount Vernon Food Pantry. 

The donations were made through the company’s Neighbor to Neighbor program, an annual donation program the company began in 2014. Since then, the program has donated $2.5 million in products to local food pantries, with the program donating $626,000 in products to 120 pantries in 2025 alone.

“Dot Foods’ Neighbor to Neighbor program is especially meaningful because it gives our employees the opportunity to support the communities where they live and work,” Dot Foods’ corporate charitable committee director Suzie Parn said in a press release. “Our employees get to know the local food pantries through the delivery process, while each pantry can request the food and essential products that will best meet the needs of the people they serve.” 

Each pantry selected for donation was allowed to select the supplies to be delivered in order to best cater to the needs of the people they serve. According to Mount Vernon Food Pantry’s Mike O’Quinn, he was given $3,000 worth of credit in an online portal to make his selection, which he spent “almost to the penny.”

The Mount Vernon Food Pantry has relied on Savannah’s Second Harvest Food Bank as its main supplier for food, so O’Quinn said Dot Foods’ involvement is a welcome addition.

“To date, all of our food has been purchased from the Second Harvest Community Food Bank in Savannah,” O’Quinn said. “We are very excited to have Dot Foods as a new resource and partner! Dot’s generosity will enable our food pantry to offer a wider variety of foods to those in need in our community.”

Mount Vernon Food Pantry was Dot Foods’ final delivery on September 17, when they brought various sauces, noodles, canned goods and other shelf stable products to the First Baptist Church where the pantry has been based for 18 months. In exchange, the pantry’s volunteers offered the Dots Foods representatives goodie bags as thanks. The representatives also shared a prayer with the volunteers before they left, led by Andrew O’Neil.

According to O’Quinn, the Dots Foods donation will help the pantry during November and December, the two months when the pantry sees the most traffic due to Thanksgiving and Christmas. 

“While some of Dot’s contribution will be distributed immediately, we expect a large part of it will be used to help our neighbors facing food insecurity at Thanksgiving and Christmas,” O’Quinn said. “November brought our highest demand last year, so it will be a blessing to have extra shelf-stable food on hand this time around. We are so thankful that Dot Foods will be helping us respond to those in need in Montgomery County and surrounding areas.”

The Mount Vernon Food Pantry distributes food on the third Thursday of every month from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.