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.
Gardens For Everyone takes the Food Shuttle’s well-established community gardening program on the road by building 8’ x 4’ x 20” raised garden boxes at individuals’ homes or for community organizations. This is a pay-what-you-can effort, asking for a minimum $25 from individuals and the full cost of $200 per bed from organizations.
With the growing season just around the corner, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s Gardens for Everyone program is in full bloom. Folks can’t wait to get their hands in the dirt, and at a sunny garden box building day, volunteers are ensuring that healthy, fresh food is accessible to all
Doron Gordon is a problem solver. An admitted “tech geek” by nature and having enjoyed a long career in computer technology, Doron says that he used to focus on what that technology could do for business. These days, he’s using technology to solve problems for the world, but his solutions to the issues facing society are not all high tech. Sometimes, they involve efforts of a more basic nature—like pulling weeds and shoveling mulch. Doron Gordon is the founder of the Gordon Family Foundation, a generous funder of Inter-Faith Food Shuttle and a frequent supporter and volunteer at Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s 14-acre Farm in Raleigh.
This summer, for the first time, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle sponsored the national Summer Food Service Program, also known as Summer Meals, to combat these food needs for five weeks during the summer months. Inter-Faith Food Shuttle partnered with 17 different Raleigh Parks and Recreation summer camp sites as a means of getting nutritious meals to children who might otherwise have to go without.
Monday, June 17, is Nexstar Media’s 2019 Founder’s Day of Caring! To commemorate the holiday, CBS 17 employees spent their Monday donating their time and talent working in service to the community.
Our CBS 17 team worked with the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle in Durham, the Food Shuttle Farm in Raleigh and the Urban Ministry in Fayetteville.
Groups worked to support these worthy organizations by assembling and providing grocery bags for seniors, sorting food donations for Backpack Buddies which are filled with essential meals and snacks for children in need of emergency food relief, and helping the warehouse staff with food recovery sorting.
Another group of our adventurous CBS 17’ers went out on the farm and assisted farm staff pulling weeds, transplanting crops and preparing produce for distribution.
We at CBS 17 are proud to care about our community and encourage all businesses to consider a similar effort and come together for the greater good of the community in a tangible way.
The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is one of the 50 Food Banks across the nation partnering with Metallica’s All Within My Hands Foundation for their Day of Service on May 22, 2019. The Food Shuttle has designated Warehouse, BackPack Buddies, and Farm volunteer opportunities for Metallica fans to get involved.
