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.
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.
Word has gotten out: Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s Community Health Education (CHE) program has tailor- made life skills curricula for the diverse populations that make up our community of neighbors. Our inclusive programming can be adapted to fit the special requirements of individual audiences, meeting community members at their point of need and ensuring that the lessons being taught resonate and have a true impact with those in attendance.
The Women’s Club of Raleigh, as part of their Community Service Program, is working with Mount Vernon Middle School, to assess what’s needed to help meet the goals of the school. One of those goals focuses on nutrition and keeping the students and their families healthy. As a means to reach that goal, the Women’s Club reached out to the Food Shuttle and invited the Community Health Education program to be a part of a Parent Engagement Night at Mount Vernon on October 19.
The Food Shuttle’s Community Health Education team presented Cooking Matters , a six-week culinary and nutrition education program, for students at the Governor Morehead School. Each week, a team consisting of a volunteer chef and a nutritionist taught about healthy eating and walked students through simple yet delicious recipes.
Last July, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s Gardens For Everyone program built Natalya a raised-bed garden box and helped her kickstart her gardening adventure. The Gardens For Everyone program helps local individuals and families access fresh and affordable produce right outside their own homes and experience the joy of growing their own food.
On a quiet corner near downtown Durham, great things are happening. Fresh, nutritious food is being grown to share with neighbors in need. Community members come together to work the soil and tend what’s growing. Knowledge is provided to help others become skilled at growing their own gardens and cooking healthy on a budget. Strangers become friends and lives are changed for the better, all on the quarter-acre lot of Geer Street Learning Garden.
Through a variety of nutrition education classes and creative approaches to healthy eating, the small but mighty force of dietetic educators o Community Health Education are making a real difference in providing long-term health and hunger solutions for our neighbors across central North Carolina.
At Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, we’re gearing up for spring with a series of workshops at our Community Learning Gardens to help ensure that gardeners—from beginners to experienced green thumbs—get the most yield from this season’s bounty.
Making a difference for our neighbors is what Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is all about. Forming partnerships with like-minded organizations strengthens that ability to have a real impact and advances the cause of long-term transformation throughout the community with greater and more far-reaching results. When the opportunity to team up with CORRAL Riding Academy arose, the Food Shuttle saddled up. and the partnership has been riding high ever since.
