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.
It was one of those perfect North Carolina spring days: the sun was shining, the temperature was in the mid 70s, a nice breeze was blowing, the rain from the day before had cleared out and folks were eager to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather. You couldn’t ask for a better setting for the Geer Street Learning Garden’s first annual Garden Party and Compost Giveaway.
How does a collection of temporary residents in a transitional housing project become a community of neighbors? For the Hotel to Home bridge housing program of Reinvestment Partners, the effort to do so centers on a garden—or more specifically, two garden beds. The garden beds were built a year ago by staff and volunteers of Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s Gardens For Everyone project at the Carolina Duke Inn in Durham.
