This celebration of music and community put together by Band Together NC and the United Way of the Greater Triangle raised over $1 million to benefit 100 Triangle charities in recovery and rebuilding from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Publix Super Markets Charities Provides Partnership to Fund Critical Food Shuttle Programming
Durham Preschool Gardens For Everyone Project Grows Vegetables, Chickens, and Imaginations
Many hands make light work in the garden at Brown’s Early Learning School. And though a good number of those hands are small, the harvest the garden brings forth is rich and bountiful and filled with good things that big and little people like to eat. The Durham preschool is home to ten garden beds provided by Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s Gardens For Everyone program.
Rain or shine, Martin Street Baptist Mobile Market helps feed families - one neighbor at a time
Rain came down in sheets and flash flood alerts blasted across cell phones as volunteers at Martin Street Baptist Church made hurried arrangements to move preparations for Saturday’s Mobile Market indoors. Cars had been lining up since 8:30 a.m. When the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle truck arrived at 9:00 to unload 10,000 pounds of produce, meat, and baked goods, the team of workers stood ready to sort, pack, and distribute food to the nearly 250 families who depend on the Mobile Market the second Saturday of each month.
Durham church partner puts food on the table for more than 500 families each week
Every Tuesday, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle delivers over 4,000 pounds of food to Iglesia Hispana Emanuel for their weekly food distribution. The church community relies on the donation to serve the vast number of families it feeds each week. What began as a small food pantry ten years ago, serving around 60 families, skyrocketed when COVID-19 struck, rapidly growing to 70, 100, 200…500 families.
The Spinning Plate food truck serves hot meals to neighbors monthly at Grace Church Raleigh
Grace Church Raleigh is a regular stop on The Spinning Plate’s schedule, where Food Truck Manager Josh Maple and Production Cook Dajai Johnson serve up free hot meals prepared fresh for the community. The connection between The Spinning Plate—an initiative of Inter-Faith Food Shuttle—and Grace Church Raleigh is a natural one since the partnership between the Food Shuttle and Grace Church goes back many years.
Love, Tito’s Block to Block program funds new greenhouse, increasing produce for neighbors in need
The most recent project with Inter-Faith Food Shuttle includes the construction of a new greenhouse at the Food Shuttle Farm. In 2020, the Love, Tito’s program provided funding to support the first part of the greenhouse project, following up in 2021 with additional support to finish the construction of the greenhouse. These donations fully funded the greenhouse and provided continued support for the Food Shuttle Farm’s other agricultural programs.
