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.
In December 2020, young Eric made up his mind to hold a fundraiser selling luminarias to his neighbors in the Budleigh Neighborhood of central Raleigh. He expected to make “maybe 1 or 2 hundred dollars.” In the end, Eric raised $1,450 from his sale and donated the proceeds to Inter-Faith Food Shuttle “so that people can have some good food over Christmas.”
Thanks to the amazing support of generous donors to Inter-Faith Food Shuttle as 2020 drew to a close, those same families have the nutritious food they need to get through this trying time and beyond. To date, the Food Shuttle’s year-end campaign “You are the Heart of Our Community” donors have raised $379,731.95, and gifts continue to come in.
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle wishes to express a heartfelt thanks to all its generous donors for an incredible outpouring of support on GivingTuesday, December 1, 2020. Online alone, the organization realized a truly inspiring total of over $46,000 in single day giving. That total is a 130 % over GivingTuesday donations from last year.
