Did you donate to the fundraiser? If your answer is "no" you can still donate to help us send our neighbors home with a cart full of groceries! Click that button below to start.
Fundraiser SPONSORS help NERA volunteers pay for the fundraiser supplies. Because of these generous companies and individuals, all donations affiliated with this project will be used to provide food to our neighbors in North Central Oklahoma. While donors who give to the fundraiser will receive gourmet caramel apples, these sponsors do not receive any offerings in return. These sponsors are the reason the Caramel Apple Fundraiser is a financial success. NERA Food and Resource Center would like to thank:
Golden Apple Sponsors: Dr. Dan McNair, Phillips 66, LiquidPower Specialty Products
Caramel Sponsors: Michelle Owen, Price & Misty Jordan, Equity Bank, RCB Bank, Moore's Venture Foods, First National Bank of Oklahoma, & Klufa Family
Nut Sponsors: Aesthetic State of Mind, Cherokee Strip Credit Union, Powell Electric, Mid C on Elite, Karen & Curtis Meyer
Chocolate Sponsors: Go Lightly Chiropractic, Custom Powder and Blasting, Stolhand-Wells Group, Heather Cannon Honda, Schwabe and Associates, Newkirk Dental, Ponca City Dental Group, Merrick's Custom Leather, Cremers Lawn & Landscape, SK Lawncare, & BRTM Accounting Services Apple Sponsors: Keller Williams Realty Select, A+ Printing, 2024 Mr. Ponca City & Family (Adams), Kevin & Lisa Robinson, Tudy Lockwood, Triple D Investments, Community National Bank and Trust, Taco Stop, Devinney Properties, Elizabeth Collogan, Ponca City Real Estate, and Lori & Dale Evans
Thank you for your support.
About the Fundraiser
For each $12 donation, you will be gifted a gourmet caramel apple! The Apples will be presented to donors before Valentine's Day. Requests will be accepted after January 6th. Only 800 apples will be available, and they go fast!
Nothing is sweeter than a Valentine's gift that provides more than 60 meals to locals in need. When donors give in quantities of $12, a group of NERA's volunteers (the "Apple Ladies") provide a hand-dipped caramel apple to the donor as a "thank you." To request apples after the morning of January 6th, use the donation or "request apples" links at NERAok.org. You may choose to pay by check; just remember to specify that your donation is for the "Caramel Apple Fundraiser." Apples will be available to pick up at NERA (112 S. 1st Street in Ponca City) on the February 13th, Thursday before Valentine's day, from 11:30 AM to 2:00 PM.
The New Emergency Resource Agency (NERA) is a nonprofit organization that feeds thousands of housed and unhoused neighbors around Kay County. NERA's programs are important in Oklahoma because 1 out of every 7 adults and 1 out of every 4 children are experiencing food scarcity. When a neighbor makes just one visit to the NERA Food and Resource Center, they will typically leave with enough groceries to feed their household for at least 14 days.
NERA's service area is the 11 ZIP codes most closely surrounding Ponca City. This nonprofit organization distributes 20,000 to 40,000 lbs. of food through their grocery center every week. In 2024, over 1.2 million meals were offered to locals. The small staff of 4 depends on dozens of volunteers and sponsors like you to make this possible.
AVAILABLE FLAVORS in 2025
CARAMEL-ONLY: For the FIRST time we are offering a caramel-only option. Don't want chocolate? No problem! Simplicity can be so sweet.
CHOCOLATE-COATED: A caramel apple dipped in chocolate and drizzled with white chocolate
THE NUTTY APPLE: A caramel apple dipped in chocolate, drizzled with white chocolate, topped with chopped pecans
THE CHOCOLATE LOVER: A caramel apple dipped in chocolate, drizzled with white chocolate, topped with chocolate chips
HOW DOES A $12 DONATION SUPPLY 60 MEALS? At the time of this fundraiser, a $1 donation can translate to 5 meals provided! Our affiliation with the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma allows us to order 20,000 to 30,000 lbs. of food every week for an average of $700. This inexpensive order combined with 5,000 to 10,000 lbs. of donations from local grocery stores allow us to send each client home with enough food to feed their family for 2 weeks or longer. If each individual eats 3 meals a day - that's 42 meals offered per individual. Your $12 gift more than covers the cost of one person's visit to NERA.
