Thank you – This is a trait my grandfather passed onto my mother and she passed onto me. Your father sounds like a very kind man.
There are two specific neighbors I think may be struggling. I think I’ll bake some bread during football tomorrow and drop it off.
The one neighbor really likes my homemade hot pockets (sandwich maker thingies). I’ll probably include some of those in a freezer bag for her, along with the bread.
Here’s a local org that serves various communities north of Boston: https://www.thefooddrive.org/
I’m a regular volunteer and I especially like that it’s hyper local; I think local orgs targeting specific local needs is really the best way to tackle these sorts of problems.
Greater Boston Food Bank is a much larger organization that does very good work as well, a bit more general to Eastern Mass.
There are pet pantries here that accept donations…they need help.
Same. We donate to our shelter all the time 
Good for your daughter. I think I’ll give it a try again. I get it, volunteer org get jammed and can be messy on admin, like processing volunteers.
This is the place I tried before, Community Kitchens. You can help at their location but can also make meals at home, for their Town Fridge program. Have to get food handling certificate, which is like $12 online and they reimburse.
Feel free to use because it really is a destructive onslaught of assholedom and hate….but it could describe many things. 
Cash to local food bank.
I was reading the news about all of this and there was a comments section.
Different people sharing stories about previous points in their life when they didn’t have food. It was heartbreaking…
To summarize, contribute, preferably cash, to Feeding America, your state food bank organization, and your local food banks. And FFS, vote!
And for an even wider reach, donate to World Central Kitchen.
For the smaller organizations I’ve been involved with, volunteer time is often far more needed than cash. And ideally not during the holidays; people tend to maximize their volunteer and donation efforts during November and December and these sorts of organizations are overrun with too many volunteers…and then come January the volunteer pool totally dries up and they have to beg for help to get everything done. Of course this year things are a bit differently weighted than usual, so just something to keep in mind for the future.
Always ask your local food bank what they need. Mine posts “what we need NOW” and while they’lllist items to purchase, cash is always welcomed.
As you said, the holidays are when they get inundated with humans wanting to help in person, but it fades away after the new year. So cash now; your time in the Spring and Sumner.
