Allison J Marketing

12/13/2025

Updates were requested on where the donations have gone so far!

The Phoenix area food pantry has received our donations 🖤 What a lovely place, please consider supporting them and donating to them this season! They have over 100 families that they work with.

We’ve also donated to the Phoenix Senior Dining program - terrific people who really care! Dont forget to support them!

We have filled the blessing boxes at the corner of W Mohawk & W 6th in Oswego and the one at the First United church in Fulton. We will be filling the Fulton one again tomorrow.

We have many more kits we will be dispersing to 2-3 more pantries! 🖤

12/11/2025

For a local to their area business with a very targeted area that they serve, these are pretty impressive engagement numbers with only having spent less than $100 in paid advertising this month. Using organic marketing and utilizing local engagement opportunities , we regularly get their phone ringing without traditional paid marketing avenues. This tried and true method of marketing is something I find to be more trustworthy with consumers and more effective at engaging long term supporters / followers / clients. While paid marketing still has its place, this business has succeeded for years with very low monthly ad spends.

12/07/2025

We did it! Our first ever fundraiser this year was a fantastic success! This year our goal was to make 40 kits to feed local families, and then it became 120 kits, but support became so high. Last night we got together with other people in our community and built 211 kits total. Almost 100 additional to our goals!

These kits (and all excess food) will be donated to food pantries in our area this coming week, if you would like to add any pantries or “free pantry” boxes in our area that you think could use the boost please let us know! We have not divvied the kits up yet, they will be divided and split throughout this coming week.

Some pantries we will be calling to arrange donations for or filling the blessing boxes for are-

-Friends of Recovery Oswego County
-Fulton united Methodist church
-Salvation Army food pantries in both Oswego & Fulton
-first united church of Fulton outdoor blessing box
-Parish Ecumenical Food pantry (parish NY)
-phoenix area food pantry
-blessing box on W 6th and Mohawk (Oswego)

We are so excited to use this momentum and practice to kick off our goals for 2026. My husband and I are getting ready to finally debut a lifelong dream of mine to start a nonprofit accessibility program and are just trying to get the logistics together.

Total kits -
211
181 of those kits feed 4-5 people
30 of those kits feed 1 person or 2 small children

Those consisted of -
47 Breakfast kits
36 Cheesy chicken & rice kits
40 Chili kits
30 lunch kits
40 birthday party in a box kits
18 birthday cake in a bag kits

All totals attached in the inventory photos!

Additional excess donations that were leftover after making the kits (these will be donated loose to food pantries and pantry boxes as well) -
11 cream soups
7 regular soups
1 oats
1 pancake mix
22 corn
10 tomato paste
6 tomato sauce
1 can carrots
2 can peas
3 frosting
4 pasta
1 gravy
2 dried fruit
2 Mac and cheese
2 candied yams
2 pasta sauce
2 peanut butter
3 green beans
1 chick peas
1 sliced peaches
1 jelly
19 diced tomato
194 bouillon
2 brick velveeta
10 velveeta packs
3 stuffing packs
10 taco seasoning
19 chili seasoning
13 tuna
4 big cans chicken
3 little cans of chicken
4 bars
2 canned clams
5 cereal
35 Knorr sides

100% of monetary donations were spent to round off the kits, create an additional 91 kits and the excess donations covered partial costs for a sandwich, chips, and cupcakes for the volunteers.

Thank you so much to everyone who donated and for our volunteers / friends who worked so hard!

12/04/2025

Today’s haul , thanks to the drop offs of Pete E. and Jessica & Cory B. ! And Tracy & Dan B.!

We also thank Joel L. for his donation and support of our cause!

Tomorrow another shop awaits - almost meal kit time!

12/03/2025

Just did a big shop with the monetary donations! We have well-exceeded our goal and are making many many additional kits! The overwhelming support of everyone in our community and in our life has been amazing. We are so excited to serve hundreds of families in our area this season! This is just one of three final shops.

This kick off is the start of something beautiful for our area and we hope to share more soon.

We will continue to post about our fundraiser event until the packages are made and donated next week!

If you’d like to drop off any donations before the event please message the page to coordinate! Thank you 🖤🖤

12/02/2025

Thank you so much to Ryan H. & Mark for the generous donations to our fundraiser! We appreciate you!

11/26/2025

Thank you all for your support today in our fundraising adventures!

To answer any questions -

What goes into a kit? Each kit serves at least 4-5 and we are making several kinds. They include -

💙Breakfast kits -💙
1 box of cereal
1 box shelf stable milk
4-5 Cereal bars / nutri grain bars

💙Birthday kits - 💙
1 box cake mix
1 can frosting
1 pack of birthday candles
1 can of soda
1 9x13 tray
1 birthday tablecloths (optional)

💙Meal kit 1 💙 - 3-Bean Chili
1 can pinto beans
1 can kidney beans
1 can tomato sauce
1 can black beans
1 can of diced tomatoes and green chiles
1 packet of chili seasoning

💙Meal kit 2- 💙 Cheesy Chicken Taco Rice Skillet
Two 5oz or one 10 oz cans of cooked chicken
1 can corn
1 can diced tomatoes and green Chiles
1 can black beans
1 pouch of Knorr Sides Spanish Rice
2 bouillon cubes
One 4-oz packet velveeta cheese sauce

Each kit will be packaged into a 2-gallon bag or box with a recipe card and distributed to local food pantries and drop off boxes in the area!

Currently we are in most need of canned chicken, cereal bars, cans of soda, birthday table cloths and shelf stable milk. If you choose to donate monetarily, 100% of your donation will be used on this project to shop the remaining items on the list, create additional kits beyond our goals, and help feed the volunteers at our kit making event next week.

Please feel free to message me if you have any questions! Thank you for your support!

11/25/2025

We are getting closer to our goal of 120 meal kits ! That’s roughly ~600 servings of food for local families! Hoping we can reach 150 - which would be ~750 servings!

11/20/2025

Good morning!

I have created a survey for Housebound People and those who know / love / care for Housebound People in the Central NY Area (Oswego, Onondaga, & Wayne Counties). This survey is being used as a tool to present during presentations when obtaining funding for a new housebound accessibility program that I am attempting to bring to the area, with support from local government figures. It is also being used to identify the needs of our local housebound community to see where the greatest needs are (medical care, support services, income, etc.). This has been in the works for the last several months, and the biggest hurdle I have encountered so far is that because housebound people are not seen physically in the community, there isn't enough data! So, I will find and produce my own!

If you are housebound, or know someone who is, and live in any of these 3 counties, please fill out the survey! You can remain completely anonymous, as I am not requiring any contact info (any prompts for it would be optional and all questions are optional for maximum comfort).

Housebound in this instance is referencing those who are housebound due to illness / disability / mental or physical health limitations, etc.

If you have any interest in being a part of the mission to bring accessibility to our local community, whether it be help funding, help sharing the word, volunteering to help with logistics, please feel free to message me!

I appreciate your support, thank you!

Your answers will help us better understand and support housebound individuals in our area. All responses are confidential and anonymous unless you choose to provide contact info at the end. A housebound person for the purpose of this survey refers to someone who is housebound due to physical, menta...

11/17/2025

Donations are starting to roll in!

Thank you to those who have already donated or are in the process of donating! 🖤

11/13/2025

Thank you to Rebekkah Frisch @ I Heart Oswego for the donation to our Food Drive. 🖤

11/11/2025

Thank you to Reneisha Vielman for the monetary donation towards our fundraiser. Every dollar is going toward 30 cans of black beans!