Grocery Bags for Seniors

Grocery Bags for Seniors Expands Into Rural Counties

Grocery Bags for Seniors Expands Into Rural Counties

Thanks to generous funding from Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s longest-running hunger relief program is expanding into Tier 1 counties, to better serve our rural neighbors.

Volunteer Appreciation Month: We Love Our Volunteers!

Volunteer Appreciation Month: We Love Our Volunteers!

In short, we love our volunteers! April is Volunteer Appreciation Month, and we take appreciating our volunteers pretty seriously. 

Now is a Great Time to Hold a Food Drive

Now is a Great Time to Hold a Food Drive

Food drives support many of Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s hunger relief programs. The shelf-stable items our neighbors donate are packed into Grocery Bags for Seniors, stock School Pantries, provide nutritious meals for Mobile Markets, and so much more.  You can help build up the foundation for the foods we provide to our neighbors in need by holding a food drive with your own community—and we’ll help every step of the way!

Cultivate Sustainable Change as a Cultivator Monthly Donor

Cultivate Sustainable Change as a Cultivator Monthly Donor

2023 is well underway, and Inter-Faith Food Shuttle challenges you to make this the year you make a difference by committing to a hunger free community. Become a Cultivator sustaining monthly donor to the Food Shuttle.

Adding Spice to Life for Our Seniors

Adding Spice to Life for Our Seniors

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.

FAERS Program Plays Significant Role in Impacting Senior Hunger

FAERS Program Plays Significant Role  in Impacting Senior Hunger

At the Food Shuttle, we see this growing need impacting the seniors we serve every day and are working to develop programming initiatives to address those needs, while taking into consideration the unique considerations of the community involved.

INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE RECEIVES GENEROUS FUNDING FROM THE TEPPER FOUNDATION AND DAVID AND NICOLE TEPPER FOUNDATION

INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE RECEIVES GENEROUS FUNDING FROM THE TEPPER FOUNDATION AND DAVID AND NICOLE TEPPER FOUNDATION

With deep appreciation, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle announces a generous donation from The Tepper Foundation and David and Nicole Tepper Foundation, as part of the Foundations’ previously announced $1.2 million grant to support Feeding the Carolinas.

Elvin's Food Shuttle Journey: Giving Back BIG to His Community

Elvin's Food Shuttle Journey: Giving Back BIG to His Community

Elvin Birth, who is 95 years old, left Murphey School three years ago and today lives with his daughter, Terri, in Timberlake. He never forgot the feeling of support he received from those monthly deliveries of food and human contact. Elvin wanted a way to give something back, and this month he and Terri paid a visit to the Food Shuttle Farm and made a very generous donation of $65,000.

Evaluation Results are In for Grocery Bags for Seniors Program

Evaluation Results are In for Grocery Bags for Seniors Program

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s Grocery Bags for Seniors program serves low-income seniors with quality, nutritious food to help alleviate food insecurity and the risk of malnutrition. In 2019, the Food Shuttle was selected as a Rooted in Evidence grantee by the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition.