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.
To Lauren, who won a date with the Food Dude! Lauren is donating 18 hours to fight hunger and go on a Food Recovery and Distribution route with our Director of Food Sourcing, the Food Dude himself, Don Eli. We're working feverishly to setup details and of course we will bring you all the highlights.
Thanks to everyone who bid!
You’ve seen him in such Youtube classics as Energy Boost and Where’s Riley? You’ve wondered, what’s the Food Dude really like? Now you can find out in our inaugural, one-of-a-kind, Valentines-Day-Related-contest! We’re offering a chance to accompany the Food Dude on a Food Recovery route! What does that mean? It means you’ll go for a ride around in a 22-foot stretch refrigerated truck, you’ll recover food from some of the most popular food service establishments in Raleigh, deliver it off to pantries, shelters and soup kitchens and have a blast along the way! You’ll also get a catered lunch from our own Chef Terri Hutter and the first-of-its-kind Food Dude T-Shirt! So how can you win this amazing prize package? It’s a blind auction, but we’re not asking for money. We’re asking you to “bid” volunteer hours. How many hours would you give towards helping feed children, seniors and families in the Greater Triangle to win this prestigious contest? Here’s how it works:
Email Jason@foodshuttle.org with the number of volunteer hours you bid to win a date with the Food Dude. The highest number of volunteer hours wins. Put “Food Dude” in the subject line. Entries will be accepted until 11:59 pm, Sunday, February 14, 2010. We’ll announce the winner on Monday, February, 15, 2010. Details will be worked out later, but our Food Recovery routes run M-F between approximately 8-2. Your Food Dude experience will last about 2 hours.
Get to Biddin’!
We've been guest blogging this month for our friends Advocates for Health in Action. Check it out here. In honor of our first guest blogging spot, we made a new Food Dude Video. If you loved him in "Where's Riley?", you'll go bonkers for "Energy Boost". Enjoy it below. Do us a favor and go ahead and pass this link around to your friends and family. We're building the framework for an Oscar nomination for 2011 and we need to get some buzz going.
It's a new year, and it's started off with some interesting changes here at the Food Shuttle! If you haven't stopped by since we rang in the new year, you might be unaware that some of your IFFS friends have changed offices and some have even changed buildings. Take a look at this video to see how The Food Dude investigates and gets down to the bottom of what's been happening at the Shuttle.
