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.
As thousands of children head back to school, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is gearing up for a full year of making sure that as many kids as possible have enough food to eat. With the launch of the Child Food Hub in September 2018, https://www.foodshuttle.org/blog/2018/10/1/new-child-food-hub-to-help-make-sure-kids-wont-go-hungry there is a planned increased to provide 2,900 children each week with BackPack Buddies bags so they’ll have food to eat over the weekend.
Kids and their lemonade stands are a natural part of summertime. A cold glass of lemonade can go a long way toward helping break the sultry heat of a summer day in eastern North Carolina. When 7-year-old Hadley Hayes decided to try her hand at the business of lemonade sales, she wanted to do so to raise money for a cause…
It’s been a good year for the Carolina Hurricanes. And being the community-minded sort, the folks behind the team have shared their good fortune far and wide. Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, and specifically Backpack Buddies, has been the recipient of the generosity and goodwill of the Carolina Hurricanes Foundation,…
The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle and Alliance Medical Ministry share a special bond of a long partnership and a shared mission of looking comprehensively at a problem and determining holistic solutions. For the Food Shuttle, it’s hunger relief; for Alliance Medical Ministry, it’s healthcare. And as we all know, those often go hand in hand.
