At La Iglesia El Buen Pastor in Durham, Mobile Market coordinator Walkiria Castillo introduced us to Gladys., one of the neighbors who attends the Mobile Market each month to pick up free groceries, fresh produce, and baked goods. Gladys uses the food items she receives to supplement her family’s food budget as she takes care of the nine people in her household

Food drives support many of Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s hunger relief programs. The shelf-stable items our neighbors donate are packed into Grocery Bags for Seniors, stock School Pantries, provide nutritious meals for Mobile Markets, and so much more.  You can help build up the foundation for the foods we provide to our neighbors in need by holding a food drive with your own community—and we’ll help every step of the way!

Spring is finally here and everything is abloom! Beginning April 1, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your gift to Inter-Faith Food Shuttle during our Spring Match Challenge. All gifts made through May 31 will be matched up to $105,000, thanks to our generous funders, including the Mead Family Foundation and SOLV Energy.

This week, the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle family lost a long-time friend and advocate in the passing of Lottie Moore.

With deep appreciation, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle announces a generous donation from The Tepper Foundation and David and Nicole Tepper Foundation, as part of the Foundations’ previously announced $1.2 million grant to support Feeding the Carolinas.

For the last 16 years, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle has partnered with Food Lion and the Food Lion Feeds Charitable Foundation to create a hunger free community in central North Carolina. This partnership has made a difference in the lives of neighbors throughout the region, as the grocery store chain and its charitable foundation have provided funding to a variety of Food Shuttle program initiatives over the course of the last year in excess of $75,000—and that support continues to grow.

As part of a nationwide effort to address the growing concern of hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle has teamed up with Wells Fargo to hold Emergency Food Distributions every week in September at one of the bank branch locations.

Helping and Healing Hearts, Inc. offers Johnston County residents the opportunity to get free non-perishable and perishable food items once every 30 days. Thanks to grant funding, residents of the county can also apply for assistance with rent and utilities. Applications are available at the pantry, located at 804 E. Market St. in Smithfield, NC 27577. The pantry is open Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle was recently awarded a grant from Feeding America in the amount of $750,000. These funds will enable the Food Shuttle to increase food purchases, hire additional staff and make important equipment upgrades—all in efforts to expand programming to meet the rising need due to COVID-19.

Whether they are learning in the school room or at home, food is the most important school supply. That’s why CBS 17 teamed up with Inter-Faith Food Shuttle for a week of reports on the organization’s efforts to address child hunger as children head back to school in the age of COVID-19.

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle held the Chatham County COVID-19 Mobile Market on June 4th at St. Julia Catholic Church in Siler City. Word of the event spread through flyers, social media, email and word of mouth throughout the month prior. The goal was to provide food to 1,500 households during the five hours of the drive-thru Market, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

On Friday, April 17, eight of the barbecue cooks from the Whole Hog Barbecue Series spread out in the parking lot of the Vernon Malone Center—home to Inter-Faith Food Shuttle—to set up their pits and cook up 150 pork barbecue shoulders donated by the North Carolina Pork Council and the National Pork Board.