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Loaves & Fishes and Friendship Trays Merger Questions and Answers
What’s happening? Loaves & Fishes and Friendship Trays are merging to strengthen their capacity to tackle all the faces and phases of food insecurity in Charlotte. This is a merger of two strong, healthy and historic equals who saw this as an opportunity to have a greater impact in meeting the ever escalating hunger needs […]
National Nutrition Month Recipe for Sweet Potato Nachos
American Heart Association: recipes.heart.org
March is National Nutrition Month – We’re Celebrating with Tips, Recipes and More
March is National Nutrition Month! Throughout the month, Loaves & Fishes/Friendship Trays, along with ONE Charlotte Health Alliance (OCHA), will be featuring tips and recipes that emphasize, educate and encourage the importance of healthy eating habits. Loaves & Fishes/Friendship Trays provides nutritious groceries to more than 80,000 individuals, annually, from different nationalities, backgrounds, and cultures. […]
In A Year of Unknowns, There Has Been One Constant. February News Update from Loaves & Fishes
In a year of so many unknowns, there continues to be one constant that we have been able to rely on – the overwhelming generosity of this community. When we have needed you, you have stepped up. Every single time. This year’s Scouting for Food drive was a prime example. Between food donations collected by […]
You Are Already Making a Difference in 2021! Let’s Keep it Going! January News Update from Executive Director Tina Postel
When Bob Briggs signed up to volunteer as a Loaves & Fishes home delivery driver he never realized that on his very first run, he would deliver groceries to a Habitat House he helped build. He said he felt that he was coming full circle. This week, he picked up deliveries for 5 families, […]
Loaves & Fishes Programs and Services: Mobile Food Pantries, Pop Up Food Shares and Home Delivery
With so many changes brought about by the pandemic, here is a primer on new programs offered by Loaves & Fishes: Mobile Food Pantries: As a result of COVID-19, Loaves & Fishes has temporarily shut down our network of food pantries and switched to mobile food pantry distribution sites. Neighbors still receive a week’s worth of […]
Doubling Down Your Donation for Our Community – Meet Genesis and See How Your Dollars Help
Genesis entered her first year of middle school virtually this year. She recently arrived at a Loaves & Fishes mobile pantry with her family. They were there to pick up a week’s worth of nutritious groceries, having heard about Loaves & Fishes through friends. Before the pandemic, Genesis’ mom was a working mother. This summer, […]
Your Generosity This #GivingTuesdayCLT Raised Over $37,750 to Help Fuel Our Fleet of Trucks!
Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving and generosity, and here in Charlotte, we celebrate with #GivingTuesdsayCLT – an opportunity to come together to take action for our community. This year our goal for Giving Tuesday was to raise funds to fuel our fleet of trucks! We depend […]
99,000 and Counting…. November News Update from Exec. Dir. Tina Postel
Loaves & Fishes Has Fed Over 99,000 People with the Busy Holiday Season Still To Come Photo by Lindsay Kappius 99,000 is a number that is hard to wrap your head around so it’s easy to forget that each number is one of our neighbors. Neighbors like Michael who recently reached out to simply say […]
