Because of you, more children will start the school day ready to learn, without the pang of hunger as a distraction. Our Back-to-School campaign reminds us that along with pencils and paper, children need a daily supply of food to take on new concepts, run on playgrounds, and socialize more successfully.
Our Community Health and Agriculture Education teams have collaborated to develop the new Food Shuttle Academy, an online learning platform with free, self-paced lessons on health, nutrition, agriculture, and more!
Our Spring Match challenge, made possible by generous funders, including SOLV Energy and the Mead Family Foundation, exceeded the $105,000 goal, raising an additional $70,000 to erase hunger!
Love, Tito’s has a heart for community gardens and increasing access to fresh, healthy foods. Their philanthropic Love, Tito’s Block to Block program, reconnects neighborhoods and creates community gardens and farms throughout the United States. Our hearts are in full bloom knowing that our Camden Street Garden will be the next beneficiary of Block to Block, allowing neighbors with mobility challenges to access our many activities more easily.
With an eye on the Food Shuttle’s continuing work toward Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, the Principal Foundation issued an invitation to the Food Shuttle to apply for the national grant award monies. Supporting a wide range of initiatives to advance financial security, the Principal Foundation has confirmed their backing for the Food Shuttle’s varied and distinctive hunger relief programming with the issuance of the $100,000 grant.
The Community Health Education Department at Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is launching a new program called Diabetes Education for Seniors. The goal of this program is to help older adults manage their diabetes through access to diabetes education and an increase in healthy food needed to support the condition including whole grains, high fiber foods, and produce.
This holiday season, you can double your impact when you make a gift to Inter-Faith Food Shuttle. Thanks to generous funding from 4 Others Foundation and Oak Foundation, the Food Shuttle is offering a Holiday Match Opportunity during our You Are the Heart of Our Community campaign. Now through December 31, all gifts will be matched, dollar for dollar, up to $100.000.
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle has been certified as a Service Enterprise by Points of Light - the world’s largest organization dedicated to volunteer service. With this certification, the Food Shuttle joins a prestigious group of nonprofits committed to effectively delivering on our mission by strategically engaging volunteer time and talent.
On Thursday, September 29, from 12 to 1 p.m., friends and supporters of the Food Shuttle and the Food Bank are invited to join us for an online event to learn the ways these two agencies are joining forces to address the issue of food insecurity in our community. A Virtual Town Hall will be presented, featuring the Food Shuttle’s VP of Operations and Logistics, Melvin Acosta, and the Food Bank’s SVP of Operations, Charlie Hale
