Food and water are survival necessities.

Work, weather, and school-appropriate clothing, personal hygiene products, and cleaning

supplies are quality-of-life necessities. So are dignity, self-esteem, and self-confidence.

Financial insecurity makes it difficult, if not impossible, to have all, some, or any of them.

Food pantries bridge the gap between staying alive and eating for health.

Non-food pantries make it possible to have warm, clean clothes and a safe place to sleep. 

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Marilyn's Place Non-Food Pantry provides the tangible goods clients need when they need

them [mission], and restores the intangibles [vision] by making the experience look and 

feel as much like a "normal" shopping trip as possible - freedom of choice over what to

buy and a variety of brands, sizes, flavors, forms, etc., to choose from, balanced by

the limitations and responsibility of a budget [means].