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 fact is that eating certain foods can actually boost your immune system—providing vitamins and minerals that support immune functions and protecting the body from sickness. To help spread the word about this valuable piece of nutrition information, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle and Aetna Medicare Advantage have teamed up to include special cards in Grocery Bags for Seniors distributions in January 2021.
Since 2016, the good folks at Pepsi Bottling Ventures (PBV) have been working a good deal of “Christmas magic” with their PBV Angel Tree, part of their PBV Connects corporate community service program. Partnering with Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, the Angel Tree connects Pepsi staff to local school children, families, and seniors during the holiday season to distribute gifts and essentials to make Christmas a little brighter.
