Recently, Save the Children came on board as a Food Shuttle supporter with a $25,000 Holiday Boxes for Rural Children grant. ‘Tis the season for providing expanded nutrition to families and children in Nash, Edgecombe, and Johnston counties!
Food Shuttle and CORRAL Riding Academy Riding Together in Successful Partnership
Making a difference for our neighbors is what Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is all about. Forming partnerships with like-minded organizations strengthens that ability to have a real impact and advances the cause of long-term transformation throughout the community with greater and more far-reaching results. When the opportunity to team up with CORRAL Riding Academy arose, the Food Shuttle saddled up. and the partnership has been riding high ever since.
Publix Super Markets Charities Provides Partnership to Fund Critical Food Shuttle Programming
Arby's Foundation Invests in a Hunger-Free Future
A Message From Our CEO
It is wonderful to see the roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine as it becomes available to each of you. Maybe you are looking forward to expanding your travel or simply embracing your loved ones again. But, as the world continues to return to some sense of normalcy, there is still much work to do so that families in need can put a warm, nutritious meal on the table.
Highlighting Blue Cross NC as Key 2020 Community Partner
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina was one of the first major donors to step up and provide funding to kickstart emergency response efforts to stave off hunger for those impacted by the pandemic. Their nimble response to support the Food Shuttle is just one of the many initiatives that distinguish Blue Cross NC as a strategic partner in the Food Shuttle’s mission to end hunger.
Farm It Forward
Through the Farm It Forward Partnership of Inter-Faith Food Shuttle (IFFS), Advocates for Health in Action, The Produce Box, and WakeMed’s Energize! program, four families currently enrolled in an IFFS Cooking Matters for Families course have been taking home Produce Boxes each week to practice the skills they are learning in class. The theme for session two of the six-week course was Try It, You’ll Like It, and boy did we! Using fresh, local tomatoes and red peppers from the Produce Box, four families worked together to prepare a delicious salsa and homemade tortilla chips.
The goal of the lesson was to discuss ways families can incorporate more fruits, vegetables and whole grains into their diets. These families shared some great ideas based on the CSA shares they received from the Produce Box the week before. One mom added blueberries to her oatmeal for the first time! Another couldn’t quite use all the green beans, so she froze them to enjoy later this summer. A teen in the class used the veggies to make the healthy mini-pizza recipe we had prepared in the first Cooking Matters session. And we were all blown away by one participant’s amazingly simple method of cooking corn in the microwave.
We can’t wait to see what they come up with next week! Thank you, Produce Box!