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.
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is pleased to present our 2021-2022 Gratitude Report, “A Year of Impact.” Distributed on Wednesday, October 19, the Report catalogs our performance over the past fiscal year and showcases how we have served our neighbors in our efforts to address hunger relief in our community.
The Women’s Club of Raleigh, as part of their Community Service Program, is working with Mount Vernon Middle School, to assess what’s needed to help meet the goals of the school. One of those goals focuses on nutrition and keeping the students and their families healthy. As a means to reach that goal, the Women’s Club reached out to the Food Shuttle and invited the Community Health Education program to be a part of a Parent Engagement Night at Mount Vernon on October 19.
The American Heart Association (AHA) has long been a partner with Inter-Faith Food Shuttle in addressing the ongoing health of our community through ensuring that all our neighbors receive the nutrition they need to lead healthy, active lives. Recently, the AHA activated funding for the Food Shuttle by leveraging a network of funders for a project outlined in a grant that had been submitted to them last fall.
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle has been certified as a Service Enterprise by Points of Light - the world’s largest organization dedicated to volunteer service. With this certification, the Food Shuttle joins a prestigious group of nonprofits committed to effectively delivering on our mission by strategically engaging volunteer time and talent.
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.
