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Meals shared
Pantry groceries and Thursday dinners in 2025.
Serving the Northside since 2009
A seat at the table for every neighbor.
A free grocery pantry, a Thursday dinner for 200, and a two-acre garden on the Northside. Come hungry, come to help, or just come say hello.
Our story
It started with one pot of chili.
Common Table began as a Thursday dinner for eleven people in a church basement. Today it's a pantry, a garden, a kitchen, and a market stand, all run by the neighbors who use them.
The next week there were twenty-two people. By winter, a restaurant that was closing gave us its range, and the Thursday dinner became a real kitchen with a real schedule.
2025 in numbers
A year of full plates.
Counted by hand at the front desk, one household at a time.
340
Volunteers
Giving 21,600 hours a year.
15
Years on Alder Street
Same corner, same front door since 2009.
Ways to give
Every gift sets another place.
94 cents of every dollar goes straight to food and programs. Here's how to help.
The Long Table Society
Keep the table set for the next fifteen years.
Forty-one neighbors have named Common Table in their wills. Their gifts built the new kitchen and will carry the pantry through lean years. June would love to sit down with you over coffee.
- A gift in your will or trust
- A gift from your IRA
- Stock or property
