Craig’s Pantry – A Kosher Pantry in Broward County Area

The founder and owner of the insurance agency Magnum Insurance, Craig Lamm has over 45 years in this business. Craig Lamm also dedicates his time managing Craig’s Pantry, a volunteer-driven kosher pantry that provides free groceries to people in the Broward County Jewish community, including homebound seniors, Holocaust survivors, and victims of domestic violence.

Craig’s Pantry is the only kosher pantry that’s a niche pantry delivering food twice a month to seniors with food types such as meats, fresh fruits and vegetables, sweets, pre-made foods, pre-made soups, desserts, and fun foods in all of Broward County. The kosher food delivered by Craig’s Pantry’s volunteers also meets specific dietary requirements, such as gluten-free, sugar-free, and salt-free.

Besides delivering the groceries, volunteers can also help with donations of kosher items and non-perishable foods, shopping, and packing. The kosher standards of the groceries in the pantry are determined with the help of many rabbis.

Craig’s Pantry volunteers consist of teens, individuals, and whole families who want to make a difference. They can volunteer as a bar or bat mitzvah project or receive service hours.

To get help or contact Craig’s Pantry, please call 954-648-6359 or send an email to info@craigspantry.com.

Craig’s Pantry – Assisting a Jewish Community in Need

 

Craig’s Pantry
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The founder and owner of Magnum Insurance Agency, Craig Lamm has led his firm to become one of the top insurance agencies serving the Hispanic market in Chicago. Craig Lamm is also the founder of Craig’s Pantry, an organization that delivers kosher food to members of the Jewish community in Broward County, Florida.

Broward County has one of the world’s largest communities of Holocaust survivors. Craig’s Pantry was established when its founder discovered that many of these survivors faced food insecurity. Soon, the organization discovered that other people in the Broward Jewish community also needed food.

Today, Craig’s Pantry purchases and delivers groceries tailored to the needs of its clients and following prescribed Jewish laws. Craig’s Pantry operates with private funding and the help of volunteers. For more information or to volunteer, visit www.craigspantry.com.

Broward County Elderly Face Financial, Affordable Rent Challenges

Craig Lamm is a well-established business executive who has a strong personal emphasis on community and is founder of Craig’s Pantry in Florida. Serving the needs of Jews facing food insecurity throughout Broward County, Craig Lamm’s organization provides kosher food that is collected, prepared, and distributed with love. 

The financial struggles that many aging people in south Florida face was recently highlighted in a report undertaken through the Jewish Federation of Broward County, the Community Foundation of Broward, and the local United Way chapter. Described as a “silver tsunami,” the situation is one in which rent prices have consistently risen and very few affordable housing developments have come online.

With 22.5 percent of Broward residents now above the age of 65 and that number continuing to grow, this represents one of the highest concentrations nationwide of a demographic that often lives on fixed and limited incomes. With the gap between wages and rent prices among the most profound in the United States, the end result is a situation in which nonprofits such as Craig’s Pantry have a critical role to play. Some 13 percent of the county’s elderly live below the poverty line, a figure that is four percent higher than the nationwide average.