Thank You to our Volunteers, Partners and Donors for Helping to Spread the Love Ever since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020, we have seen a dramatic increase in the need for food amongst families throughout the entirety of WNC. As of December 2021, we are continuing to serve over 120,000 people per… Read more »
Our Nutrition Works team works to provide our clients with recipes detailing how to cook the food that they are bringing home from our mobile markets into delicious meals and treats. If you are looking for a quick and nutritious breakfast treat, you will want to try Nutrition Works’ Breakfast Egg Muffin recipe. The recipe… Read more »
#MANNAStudentChallenge2022 The past few years, we have been unable to host our annual student food drive due to the pandemic. This year, however, the student food drive and the competition between schools to see who can collect the most food returns! Throughout the entire month of March, schools will be hosting food drives and competing… Read more »
Throughout WNC, MANNA has a network of over 200 partner agencies. These partners are often the final hands in the process of food distribution. They make sure members of their community have food to eat by distributing food directly to local families. One of our incredible partners is St. Vincent de Paul. St. Vincent de… Read more »
The “101” on Food Banking MANNA FoodBank is pleased to announce a new online series: “MANNA LIVE!” This series of livestream events will take place on MANNA’s Facebook and YouTube social media channels, and will focus on different topics throughout the year. On Friday, January 28th, join us for “FoodBank 101”. This first event in… Read more »
2021: 5 Things We Are Thankful For Much like the year before it, 2021 was another unprecedented year at MANNA FoodBank. The ongoing pandemic continued to affect the daily lives of everyone in our region, as the need for food throughout WNC remained well above pre-pandemic numbers. The growing gap between families’ incomes and the… Read more »
Thank you to all of the following organizations for their vital and significant support of MANNA’s work and mission throughout 2021! Thanks to their contributions, we were able to distribute a record amount of food to families throughout WNC, and continue to provide food with hope and dignity to all Western North Carolinians who need… Read more »
Looking back upon this past year, we are beyond grateful for all of the public and private partnerships with businesses who donated food. Thanks to these organizations, MANNA and our food distribution partners could ensure that anytime someone came to us in 2021, that we had the food they needed. Please join us in thanking… Read more »
Our Nutrition Works team works to provide our clients with recipes detailing how to cook the food that they are bringing home from our mobile markets into delicious meals and treats. One of the vegetables MANNA distributes across WNC is jicama. The slightly sweet and crunchy root vegetable is sometimes referred to as the “Mexican… Read more »
MANNA FoodBank is proud to welcome Claire Neal, who will be joining us on Monday, January 31st as our 6th leader in almost four decades of MANNA’s existence. We are also very pleased that Hannah Randall, our current CEO has graciously agreed to stay on for a number of weeks to help onboard Claire in… Read more »
