Our local Jersey Mike’s is teaming up with MANNA to help provide food for meals this holiday season. With a $2 donation to MANNA, Jersey Mike’s will give you any regular sub “on Mike.” You can provide food for 6 meals and have a great sub. This special will take place on Wednesday afternoons from… Read more »
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Welcome To Nancy Flippin, Our New CFO
MANNA is thrilled to welcome new CFO Nancy Flippin to the Senior Management Team. Nancy comes with incredible food bank experience, and we anticipate her positive impact on MANNA to be both immediate and invaluable! She began as the staff accountant for the Atlanta Community Food Bank in 1996, and for the last sixteen years… Read more »
Doing Whatever it Takes
The Western North Carolina Report of Hunger in America 2014 provides a snapshot of the people in our region struggling with hunger. With 80 percent of the households that sought food assistance surviving on $20,000 or less a year, and 60 percent living on $10,000 or less a year, it comes as little surprise that spending… Read more »
Bank of America Offers 2:1 Match for MANNA
Bank of America Works to End Hunger with 2:1 Match Many of our supporters know that every $1 that is donated to MANNA FoodBank can provide enough food for three meals. Thanks to Bank of America, now through December 31st, every $1 can mean 9 meals! Through Give A Meal, for every dollar donated to… Read more »
Holiday Card Design Contest
MANNA FoodBank is accepting submissions for our 1st ever holiday card design contest. Our holiday card from last year is pictured. The selected design will be sent to thousands of MANNA supporters in the form of a printed card and an e-card. The artist will be recognized on the back of the printed card and… Read more »
Trading Off Until There is Nothing Left
Have you had to choose between paying for food and paying for health care in the last year?” Clients in the Hunger in America 2014 study were asked questions like this one for the first time since the study began in 1994. The answers they gave help to provide a snapshot of what life is… Read more »
Empty Bowls: Broken Records But Bowls Remain Intact
The Empty Bowls luncheon and dinner events were a great success thanks to our donors, sponsors, entertainers and attendees. We raised $48,923.87, which will provide food for 146,772 meals! We also beat our previous ticket sales record…by one ticket! We already can’t wait until next year.
Number of People Seeking Food Assistance Increases in WNC
Largest, Most Comprehensive Analysis of Charitable Food Assistance in America Reports 107,600 Served by MANNA FoodBank Annually A new study by Feeding America, the largest domestic hunger relief organization, shows that an estimated 107,600 people in Western North Carolina turn to food pantries and meal service programs to feed themselves and their families. This is… Read more »
Community Leader, Advocate, Visionary: Leigh Pettus Retires After 22 Years at MANNA
As I wind down 22 years at MANNA FoodBank, I would like to thank all who have supported me: the partner agency heroes, volunteers, VISTAs and AmeriCorps members, current and former staff, colleagues near and far, food and financial donors, my family and friends. MANNA has a unique role and responsibility as a catalyst and… Read more »
14 Million Pounds and Counting…
A letter from MANNA Food Bank Executive Director, Cindy Threlkeld: As MANNA wraps up our fiscal year, we want to take a moment to thank you for your support. We become so engaged in the logistics and daily challenges that we don’t often pause to look at what we have accomplished in partnership with… Read more »





