Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is pleased to announce a $160,000 grant from Citrix to support COVID-19 emergency response efforts. Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is actively addressing the alarming lack of food access for families and children across their seven-county service territory caused by COVID-19. The funding made available by the Citrix grant will support the organization as they continue their emergency response programs to provide prepared meals, shelf-stable boxed foods, and on-demand solutions to those affected by the continued COVID-19 hunger relief crisis.
Ron Pringle, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s President and CEO, shares, “We are grateful for Citrix’s generous support of our COVID-19 efforts to address food insecurity for our most vulnerable population--children, families, and seniors. As the effects of COVID-19 remain, funders like Citrix allow the Food Shuttle to continue our critical emergency response and infuse nutritious foods into our programs.”
As a company, Citrix partners with nonprofits to improve the communities and the lives of families and children, especially those that are the most vulnerable and have faced persistent poverty. Citrix’s contribution directly aligns with Inter-Faith’s mission to pioneer innovative, transformative solutions designed to end hunger in marginalized communities.
“The coronavirus pandemic has exposed extensive inequities in the ability to access food in marginalized communities throughout the seven counties surrounding the Raleigh-Durham area,” said Kurt Heusner, Raleigh Site Leader & GVP Americas Commercial and Public Sector of Citrix. ”We are proud to support Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s focus on the root causes of hunger--lack of food access and lack of income--to empower critically vulnerable neighborhoods to provide healthy food for themselves.”
To learn more about the Food Shuttle’s emergency response programs supported by Citrix, visit www.FoodShuttle.org/COVID19.
