Collin County Families Need Your Help
Understanding the need
Collin County families are facing growing challenges when it comes to meeting their basic needs.
Here’s what’s happening:
- More families are experiencing gaps in food assistance and struggling to put meals on the table
- Working families, including those with stable employment, are finding it harder to make ends meet
- Food banks across North Texas are reporting a surge in requests for help
- Rising food costs make it even harder for families already living paycheck to paycheck
Local nonprofits are doing all they can to meet the need — but they can’t do it alone.
How This Impacts Collin County
Families right here in our community are turning to local nonprofits for help with food, diapers, hygiene products, and other essentials.
Your support — whether through donations, volunteering, or hosting a food drive — helps keep shelves stocked and hope alive for our Collin County neighbors.
Local Nonprofits That Need Your Help
Community Food Pantry of McKinney
A choice pantry where families in need can shop freely
How You Can Help:
Host a Food Drive – Every can counts! Organize a canned food, tuna, or chicken drive, or collect toilet paper, snacks, and pantry staples to help stock the shelves.
Contact Executive Director Melody Krill at mkrill@mckinneyfoodpantry.org.
Donate Financially – Every dollar makes a difference. Monetary donations allow the pantry to purchase essential items not received through donations.
Frisco Family Services
Provides essential services, emergency financial assistance, and food to families in crisis
Frisco Family Services has seen a 51% increase in applications for assistance—proof that more of our neighbors are facing unexpected hardship.
How You Can Help:
Your support provides groceries, stability, and hope to families right here in our community.
Agape Resource & Assistance Center
Provides critical housing and life skills that empower single women and their children
Agape currently provides transitional housing for eight mothers and twelve children who are rebuilding their lives after homelessness and/or domestic violence. These courageous families are working toward stability—attending school, maintaining jobs, and caring for their children—while they heal and regain independence.
Now, they face a new crisis. With grocery costs soaring and SNAP benefits disrupted, several Agape families suddenly lost access to their monthly food assistance due to system errors, card theft, and federal delays.
Meals on Wheels Collin County
Delivering hope, nourishment, and independence to over 2,000 seniors daily across Collin County
Meals on Wheels Collin County continues to deliver meals, comfort, and hope to homebound seniors who would otherwise go without. In times like these, your support makes all the difference.
How You Can Help:
Your support ensures that seniors in our community receive nutritious meals, safety checks, and a friendly face at their door. You can make a difference by volunteering to deliver meals, supporting the program with a donation, or helping spread the word so more neighbors can join the mission.
Did You Know?
Thousands of North Texans who rely on SNAP benefits to feed their families are now going without support, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Together, We Can Make a Difference
Our community has always shown up in times of crisis—and now, our neighbors need us again.
Whether you give your time, organize a drive, or make a donation, your action brings hope to families across Collin County.
We need you. Our community needs you. Together, we will get through this.
How to Get Started
Everything takes place on our Volunteer Portal. You can browse opportunities without an account, but you’ll need to register and create a profile to actually respond to an opportunity.
If you don’t see anything that fits your interest and schedule, check back later as opportunities are always being added. You can also Become a Fan of any agency to get updates on their needs.
Each agency will have their own process for accepting volunteers to make sure you are a good fit for them.
Visit the Volunteer Portal
Connecting people to their passion through volunteerism and supporting Collin County nonprofits through education and collaboration.