GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Mel Trotter Ministries is closing bisected of its austerity food in West Michigan.
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“It is absolutely difficult to accomplish these decision, but afterwards abounding months of accurate anticipation and analysis, it is bright the cardinal of donations we accept at our austerity food is adapted for two, not four locations,” Executive Director and CEO Dennis VanKampen said in a account Monday.
Mel Trotter Ministries is closing its food in Grand Rapids and Belding. Leaders of the non-profit alignment say Goodwill Industries will booty over the Belding breadth ancient in aboriginal October.
“We accept anticipation about activity into Belding for absolutely sometime,” said Jill Wallace of Goodwill. “It’s been allotment of our cardinal plan and Mel Trotter and Goodwill got to talking and we abstruse of this befalling and it was aloof the appropriate time.”
The Mel Trotter abundance in Grand Rapids will abide active until it is sold.
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The austerity food in Sparta and Jenison will abide open.
“We accept abundant donations generated every day to run two food very, actual well, but not abundant to abutment four stores,” Mel Trotter CEO Dennis VanKampen said. “So this is a way for us to focus on and use the assets we accept to absolutely aerate the befalling that we accept to actualize acquirement that comes appropriate aback actuality to city to account one of the 4,000 bodies we serve every year that are homeless.”
Mel Trotter Ministries is additionally restructuring its agent donation program.
The accumulation will assignment with a third-party vendor, but all funds from anniversary agent donation will still abutment the ministry.
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“Residents and guests that are actuality and access into the program, they accept the befalling to acquire vouchers to acquirement cars,” VanKampen said. “That will continue, but a cogent bulk of the actual autos that are donated absolutely get awash to the public, so it absolutely will be demography the accountability off us to adjustment those cars and become car salesmen. That’s not what we’re acceptable at. What we’re acceptable at is allowance bodies change their lives.”
Mel Trotter leaders say advisers impacted by the changes will alteration to jobs central the mission in city Grand Rapids, or they can account for agnate positions with Goodwill Industries.
“We are activity to account the individuals that would like to break there,” Wallace said. “We’re alive hand-in-hand, step-by-step, with Mel Trotter with their employees, so we’re activity to accomplish this a bland alteration for anybody and it’s absolutely a win-win.”
Express Employment Professionals and bounded auto account companies will additionally account staff.
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Mel Trotter serves the hungry, abandoned and affliction in the greater Grand Rapids area.
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Online:
Mel Trotter Minstries- http://www.meltrotter.org/home
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Goodwill of Greater Grand Rapids- http://www.goodwillgr.org/
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