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.
So, if you cut salt from your diet, how do you flavor your food? Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s Community Health Education program is tackling that question head on by beginning to include a flavorful variety of spices and oils in monthly distributions of Grocery Bags for Seniors.
Fay Cobb Payton, Deonte’ Thomas, and Matt Gregory know the importance of ending child hunger and how children can’t learn and succeed when they are hungry. They are the newest members of Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s Board of Directors. Fay, Deonte’, and Matt all come from different backgrounds but each have a passion for helping others in our community to succeed. Their individual skillsets bring new perspectives into creating a hunger free community.
For the fourth year in a row, the Caldwell Fellows program has had a team assigned to the Food Shuttle Farm for their Sophomore Seminar, where the team members work together to live out their guiding principles of servant leadership, principled reflection, personal development, rigorous integrity, and academic excellence.
Now, at the ripe age of 7 years, Charlie has come up with a new way of supporting the hunger relief effort that is so close to his heart. He and his brother, 4-year-old Ford, recruited several of their neighborhood friends to host a lemonade stand to benefit BackPack Buddies. The boys and their friends wanted to do something for their peers going back to school to help them start off on the right foot.
On Thursday, September 29, from 12 to 1 p.m., friends and supporters of the Food Shuttle and the Food Bank are invited to join us for an online event to learn the ways these two agencies are joining forces to address the issue of food insecurity in our community. A Virtual Town Hall will be presented, featuring the Food Shuttle’s VP of Operations and Logistics, Melvin Acosta, and the Food Bank’s SVP of Operations, Charlie Hale
For many, a daily meal is a simple choice of what to eat. But for people facing hunger, a daily meal poses a very different type of choice. It's often an impossible choice between food and other crucial needs, such as electricity, childcare or medicine. In partnership with the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, the Food Shuttle is striving to address the needs of our neighbors who are facing these impossible choices.
When August arrives, that means back-to-school cannot be far behind. At Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, that means it’s time for our annual Back-to-School week on CBS 17’s “My Carolina.” This year featured a week of segments featuring Food Shuttle programs dedicated to combatting child hunger in our community.
The Food Shuttle’s Child Hunger programs focus on filling in the gaps for children’s nutritional needs on weekends and at home through efforts such as BackPack Buddies and School Choice Pantries. Schools are currently in the process of registering for these programs that can make such a difference in the lives of students and their families.
Now, Lottie Moore spends most of her time in her lovely, refurbished home, as her illness has left her spent. She is currently under hospice care, but still finds a way to look after the needs of her neighbors. Recently, she reached out to Elizabeth Rodgers, Agency Relations Manager at the Food Shuttle, and told her that she wanted to express her gratitude to the Food Shuttle staff for all that they had done for her over the years and in her time of need.
