- Our Daily Bread food pantry in Collier County is nearing its $8 million fundraising goal for a new permanent location.
- The pantry purchased a former bank building and adjacent lot on Marco Island for the new facility.
- The new building will be approximately 5,000 square feet, significantly larger than their current space.
Our Daily Bread, a food pantry that serves Collier County residents, is about $500,000 from its $8 million capital campaign goal and possibly two months from moving into its new permanent home on Marco Island.
“We’re actually thinking of being in there in August,” said Executive Director Evelyn Rossetti-Ryan in a phone interview on Friday, June 27.
Our Daily Bread purchased a former Fifth Third Bank building at 1818 San Marco Road in October 2023 for $3.025 million. A year later, the nonprofit purchased the empty lot next door for $1.1 million, and construction began in late 2024…