Welcome!
Serving the Boyne City area, we are located in the Boyne Area Free Clinic building, across from Rotary Park on State St. We are open Tuesdays from 10:00am-12:00pm and 2:00pm – 5:30pm.
Our doors are open (4/18/2024) - At Good Neighbors, we provide in-person shopping for our guests so they are able to choose the items they want from our shelves. We’re open on Tuesdays from 10-noon and 2-5:30. Our doors are also open for community members who are interested in seeing the pantry. Call for details at 231-497-8677.
Hestia provides assistance (6/23/2022) - Once again, Good Neighbors has been awarded a generous grant from Hestia Women’s Giving Circle to provide feminine hygiene products to our clients. The mission of Hestia Women’s Giving Circle is to promote economic self-sufficiency and well being for women and girls.
Hestia Grant provides feminine care products (4/22/2021) - Everyone needs food to survive. But feminine hygiene products are also a necessity that women need. Those necessities are expensive, and women can’t go about their daily lives without them. “We don’t want anyone to have to choose between buying food and feminine care products, or stay home from a job, doctor’s appointment, or school because they lack these necessities,” said Joanne Park-Foley, a Good Neighbors Food Pantry volunteer. The pantry has received donations of products in the past, but hoped to offer more. Hestia Women’s Giving Circle has made that possible through a grant to the pantry. Feminine care products of all kinds are now given every week to women and girls who need them. The mission of Hestia [...]
Nutrition Guidelines (3/17/2021) - From our beginnings, Good Neighbors volunteers and board members have placed a high value on health and nutrition. Through our Nutrition Guidelines, we put these values in writing. The purpose of the guidelines is to support the overall health and wellbeing of those we serve, and to guide the pantry’s procurement of food. Click here for Guidelines.
Good Neighbors Food Pantry celebrates its five-year anniversary! (9/24/2020) - Five years ago, on September 22, 2015, we opened our doors to our neighbors in need. We served 42 families that day, affirming the need we have in our area. In 2015, we couldn’t have predicted, or even dreamed, the situation we would face in 2020. But from the very beginning, Good Neighbors has been built on the generous support of the community and the dedication and hard work of our passionate volunteers. This put us in a good position to deal with the current challenges of the pandemic. With compassion for our neighbors who were and are struggling with additional burdens, and concern for their safety as well as the safety of our volunteers, we changed our whole system [...]