Summer Newsletter: Back to School, Back to Food

The Food Mover: Monthly Newsletter

IN THIS ISSUE > Jill's Message > IFFS Joins Durham's New Urban Food Hub > MIX 101.5 Listeners Donate $50,000 and 9,000 lbs to BackPack Buddies > 3 ways your garden surplus feeds the hungry > HungerFreeNC: What a day, What a movement! > Volunteer Spotlight: Burt's Bees > IFFS in the News > Getting Social! > Recipe of the Month WHAT'S "GROWING" AT THE FOOD SHUTTLE •This September, IFFS has made it easy for anyone to make a difference during Hunger Action Month! Click below to find the way that’s perfect for you!   •Our Tryon Road Farm Stand sells locally grown, chemical-free produce Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays through October. THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS IN THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY • Thank you Panera Bread for donating 6,656 lbs of Black Bean Soup!   • Thank you Heirlooms in Durham & owner/artist Susan Laws for raising $1,650 for BackPack Buddies partner PORCH-Durham!   • Shop AmazonSmile year-round to support IFFS KEEP IN TOUCH Share your stories and photos from volunteering, holding a food drive, or working towards a #HungerFreeNC!    IFFS Facebook  IFFS Twitter  IFFS Instagram  Food Shuttle Blog Thanks to our friends at @FoodShuttle who were at the GCF Farm to pick up fresh produce! pic.twitter.com/nllGepqJaf — Good and Will (@GoodandWill) July 9, 2015 Great job IMPACT's Ann Brown on the @foodshuttle drive! Donation of 201 lbs! http://t.co/Deea34qITr #BackPackBuddies pic.twitter.com/Fwb6sOnp1n — Impact Pharma (@ImpactPharma) July 22, 2015 Ava is eight and was awesome today! — with Katie Hart Walker in Clayton, North Carolina. —Posted by Deborah Kendrick Hart-Serafini‎ on July 10, 2015 Excited to be spending the morning at a farm, gleaning kale and beets for @FoodShuttle. #HungerFreeNC #BeetHunger pic.twitter.com/aBcDS1T1q4 — Mike K. (@oftendrawn) July 10, 2015 Allscripts Global Impact Day 2015!! At the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, we joined together in the fight against world hunger on the inaugural Global Impact Day! —Posted by Richard Morgan‎‎ on July 16, 2015 #missionpalooza #stmikesjreyc little helping hands at #camdenstreetlearninggarden @mdsmith18 @foodshuttle A photo posted by St. Michael's Youth (@stmikeseyc) on Aug 6, 2015 at 7:39am PDT Sam donated to #BackPackBuddies in Cary and met @MIX1015WRALFM @GeneAndJulie's traffic reporter Patrick McMahon! pic.twitter.com/G28JB18qgV — Ron Cerniglia (@RonGoWolfpack) August 15, 2015 Our first 2015 CPA Day of Service activity! The #NCACPA Peer Review Committee members donated food to the InterFaith Food Shuttle’s Backpack Buddies Program ???? ???????????? #CPAservice #volunteer @foodshuttle A photo posted by NCACPA (@ncacpa) on Aug 25, 2015 at 9:33am PDT OUR MISSION Inter-Faith Food Shuttle pioneers innovative, transformative solutions designed to end hunger in our community. CONTACT US 1001 Blair Drive, Raleigh, NC 27603   Phone: 919-250-0043  www.FoodShuttle.org Volunteer. Donate. Spread the word.

A message from Jill Staton Bullard I have been truly delighted this past month by the Facebook postings of friends and neighbors- watching sweet children celebrating “back to school” moments. You know those pictures- kids sporting the latest fashion, the new backpack, and the rad shoes. My favorite is the big grin of a precious girl looking back at her parents, as if to say “I’ve got this!” as she boards a school bus for the first time. But I am sobered by the number of children whose families are looking forward to school for a different reason: food. They are the parents who struggled all summer to make ends meet. They know that school means that their children will have a real lunch at least Monday through Friday, maybe breakfast too, if the bus gets there on time. They are also the ones who never catch a break. They are the ones who work two or three part-time jobs, who depend on the bus line for transportation, who have to rearrange their lives just to come up with Number 2 pencils, three ring binders, and all of the other things on the teacher’s list of necessary school items. You can help us help them this month. September is Hunger Action Month. We have a list on our website of simple things that you can do. When all of us care that each child has nutritious food day in and day out, when every family feels that they can make a difference in the lives of those who struggle, we will build a hunger-free community. You can make a difference, a huge difference. Please help. -Jill                              New Urban Food Hub Aims to Make Veggies “Cool” For Durham Residents By relocating Durham BackPack Buddies & Urban Ag operations to the new Bull City Cool Food Hub, IFFS can Feed, Teach, and Grow all within one city block!     STORIFY: MIX 101.5 Listeners Donate over $50,000 and 9,000 lbs to BackPack Buddies MIX listeners once again rallied around the belief that 'No Child Should Be Hungry' and produced some BIG RESULTS - enough to feed 162 kids every weekend!     3 ways your garden surplus feeds the hungry in our community Generous gardeners donate surplus produce to IFFS via the Plant a Row for the Hungry program. Here's how that healthy food reaches neighbors in need... HungerFreeNC: What a day, What a movement! Thanks to generous donors & hardworking volunteers, #HungerFreeNC MEDIAthon raised $80,000 for the 6 innovative organizations of the HungerFreeNC Coalition. Volunteer Spotlight: Burt's Bees Burt’s Bees employees have been volunteering with IFFS for the past four years – both at Tryon Road Teaching Farm and with our BackPack Buddies program.   Food Shuttle in the News: • BackPack Buddies drive Saturday will feed hungry kids • Game plan: Jessica Holmes • Jamie Kirk Hahn’s spirit lives on through Camden Street Learning Garden (pictured) • WRAL-TV and Radio One Raleigh expand #HungerFreeNC Movement • Jill: Giving our NC communities the food access they deserve • Raleigh might look to Capital Area Food Network for help with urban agriculture (pictured) [contact-form-7 id="1356" title="Newsletter SignUp"]