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Multiple Mecklenburg Human Service Agencies, Including Loaves & Fishes, Are Impacted by Cut in EFSP Federal Funding

Mecklenburg Agencies not receiving Emergency Food and Shelter Program Federal Funding On May 18, Mecklenburg County received the disappointing news that it did not meet the established thresholds to receive Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. This loss of EFSP funding will deprive nine human service agencies of over […]

Events

Raising Children Who Care Brochure

Thank you to everyone who attended the Raising Children Who Care luncheon featuring Maddi’s Fridge author Lois Brandt. Ms. Brandt shared ways to talk to your child about childhood hunger and offered tips, stories and examples of how we can help our children recognize and help the Maddi’s in our midst. Download a copy here: Raising […]

Client Stories

Holly & Ivy

Holly and Ivy just go together. Shopping together for a week’s worth of groceries and chatting like two old friends, Holly was showing Ivy the pasta sauce she liked best while Ivy shared which vegetables her kids liked to eat. You would never guess they had just met. Ivy never imagined she would ever need […]

Events

Raising Children Who Care; A Conversation with Lois Brandt Thursday, May 31st – Purchase Tickets Here

Thursday, May 31st, join Loaves & Fishes for “Raising Children Who Care; A conversation with Lois Brandt,” award-winning author of Maddi’s Fridge for an opportunity to learn how to talk to children about childhood hunger and poverty while instilling important lessons in friendship, empathy, and helping others. Ms. Brandt will speak to parents and adults […]

Events

Upcoming Events for 2018: Tour de Turns August 25, 2018

The 7th Annual Tour de Turns and Neighborhood Festival is Helping Turn the Corner on Local Hunger Save the Date for the 7th annual Tour de Turns and Neighborhood Festival, Saturday, August 25 at Carmel Road Neighborhood Park. This original and unique benefit bicycle ride winds through beautiful tree-lined South Charlotte neighborhoods offering 15, 25, 37 and 62 mile […]

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Scouting for Food Results Are In and Mecklenburg Co. Boy Scouts Collect 230,574 lbs of food for Charlotte’s Hungry

A generous Charlotte-Mecklenburg community has donated 230,574 lbs. of food for hungry neighbors in need during February’s 2018 Scouting for Food Drive to benefit Loaves & Fishes.   An estimated 3,000 Boy Scouts from The Mecklenburg County Council of Boy Scouts of America went door-to-door February 3rd collecting food, as well as staffed multiple food […]