Highlights of the 2020-2021 Fiscal Year
A Record Breaking Year The 2020-2021 fiscal year was a year unlike any in MANNA’s history. Throughout...
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Celebrating 20 Years of Empty Bowls!
20 Years of Art & Food: A Celebration to Feed Thousands Across WNC When art, food, music, and friends all...
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The Current Reality Across Our Beautiful Region
Dear Friends, We hope this letter finds you and yours healthy and doing well. These are highly unusual times...
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September is Hunger Action Month
Take action to make a difference in the lives of our neighbors! Every September, the network of 200 Feeding...
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Ingles Day at the Mountain State Fair
Get your cans ready for one of our favorite food drives of the year! Thanks to our incredible hometown...
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Nutrition Works: Tomato & Yellow Squash Side Dish
Our Nutrition Works team works to provide our clients with recipes detailing how to cook up the food that...
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Summer Packs
Food Access for the Summer, When Kids Are Out of School For MANNA FoodBank, and our dedicated network of...
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Nutrition Works: Crunchy Peanut Butter Banana Parfait
Our Nutrition Works team works to provide our clients with recipes detailing how to cook up the food that...
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Children and Food Insecurity
Why are WNC Children Facing Higher Rates of Hunger? In Western North Carolina, food insecurity...
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What is in a Summer Pack?
Summer Packs are MANNA’s answer to summer hunger, when WNC children don’t have access to free...
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Impact Report: March 2020 – June 2021
While we’re beginning to see the signs of recovery, the near 100,000 people we are serving every month...
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Partner Agency Highlight: Serving Latinx Communities in WNC
A recent report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is helping to showcase the impact...
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An Update from MANNA
The Need for Food in WNC Remains High As MANNA FoodBank, the pandemic has been both a marathon and a sprint...
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MANNA’s Focus on Health
Even in a Pandemic, MANNA Maintains a Commitment to Healthy Food for the Wellbeing of Our Community At MANNA,...
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Make SNAP Dollars Go Further at Local Farmers’ Markets!
In Western North Carolina, we are surrounded by an abundance of beautiful farmland and farmers’ markets...
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Nutrition Works (Recipes + Video)
Our Nutrition Works team not only works to ensure that we are providing clients with nutrient-dense and...
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Healthy Food + Volunteers
Egg Candlers Help Provide Vital Nutrients to WNC Protein is one of several essential nutrients that the human...
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Impact Report: March 2020 – May 2021
While we’re beginning to see the signs of recovery, the almost 100,000 people we are serving every...
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Partner Highlight: Interfaith Assistance Ministry in Henderson...
Interfaith Assistance Ministry has been providing assistance to Henderson County residents since 1984. Their...
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Partner Agency Highlight: Serving Black Communities in WNC
Recent data analysis from Feeding America is helping to shine a light on how racial disparity has an impact...
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Where We Are Now
And Where We Can Go Together We want to take a moment to share a brief update on where we’ve been, a bit...
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Important Community Resources
To create a food secure and hunger free WNC, it is important that we are aware of available community...
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The Importance of Universal Free School Lunches
In late April, it was announced by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that universal free...
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Lynn’s Walk for MANNA
Between January 1st and February 14th, Lynn Hamby, a powerful food advocate for people in Murphy, NC, set out...
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Getting the Job Done
The incredible work of Partner Agencies over this past year! Just one year ago…. Nearly one year into the...
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National Nutrition Month
MANNA Foodbank is celebrating National Nutrition Month©, a time that is dedicated to encouraging healthy...
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Relief Can’t Come Soon Enough
While thousands of Western North Carolina families struggle to hold on through the pandemic and its economic...
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Food Resources
Help Spread the Word One of the most important things you can do as an advocate for our friends and neighbors...
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When Can I Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?
A County by County Guide In the interest of everyone’s health & well-being, we wanted to help best...
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Community Resources
Food, Rent, Utilities & Mortgage Assistance We recognize now is a time that many people are struggling to...
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Haywood Christian Ministry
Notes From Our Partners For the past fifty years, Haywood Christian Ministry has been a part of Haywood...
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Keep Trucking…
Volunteer Drivers & Their Incredible Impact in 2020 Following a year like no other, we wanted to take a...
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Forging a Better Future for Everyone in our Mountains &...
A Letter From MANNA’s CEO Dear MANNA Community, The last weeks and months have been revealing—showing...
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A Season of Giving
Ways to Lend a Hand this Holiday Season! This holiday season, there are many ways that you can support MANNA,...
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Stories of Hope & Generosity
A Little Bit of Hope for 2021 One of the most important things a person can possess is hope. That’s why,...
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One Year of Reaching Those Who Could Not Reach Us
Celebrating a year of MANNA Community Markets! Last year, MANNA officially launched a new program,...
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The Ingles Giving Tree Tradition Continues!
Feast Your Eyes on the Ingles Giving Tree Monday, November 23, 4-6PM The 28th Ingles Giving Tree Celebrates a...
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A Marathon and a Sprint
As we race everyday to meet the dramatically increased need in our region, it has become both a marathon and...
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MANNA Since the Pandemic
Every year, we work tirelessly to combat hunger and food insecurity throughout WNC. This year, however, our...
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September is Hunger Action Month
This month, you can take action to make a difference in the lives of our neighbors. Every September, the...
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Volunteering at MANNA Amidst the Pandemic
Safety First: Increasing Our Safety Measures To Combat COVID-19 As MANNA, we are committed to a healthy...
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Reaching Out with Food & Hope to Those Hit Hardest By the...
MANNA’s Efforts to Get Food to the Latinx Community As the pandemic continues, people throughout WNC...
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A Light in the Dark For Families Needing Food: Beacon of Hope...
Food & Hope in Madison County On a hot July afternoon, residents of Madison County drove to Beacon of...
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Hickory Nut Gorge Outreach: “Overwhelming Gratitude”
Stories of Hope from WNC As part of #MANNAfestingHope, we are sharing quotes and stories from across WNC to...
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The Teams Behind the Numbers
MANNA Staff are giving it their all, every day, to keep hope alive for thousands in WNC. We don’t often...
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MANNAfesting Hope
Although our beloved Blue Jean Ball was cancelled this year… Hunger Is Not. As food insecurity rises across...
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Neighbors Feeding Neighbors: “You’ve Given Us...
Family and Compassion Along the intersection of the North Toe River and Highway 226, hope is as abundant as...
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A Message to Our WNC Community
At a time like this, we are poignantly reminded of the profound words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. when he...
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In Times of Great Adversity…
Great People Arise and Come Together. Mid-March: When the Need Changed Overnight As the COVID-19 public...
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COVID-19 Response and Updates
(Updated 3/13/20 at 2:30PM) Letter from MANNA’s CEO, Hannah Randall Dear Friends: I am writing to...
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Driving Nutrition Home
MANNA’s Mobile Programs Promote Healthy Diets for Clients throughout WNC MANNA’s mobile...
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“I Love My Leafy Greens”
The Importance of Nutrition in NC Mountain Towns Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Newland is a beautiful...
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Your Dollar Now Goes Further Than Ever at MANNA!
We are delighted to announce that for every $1 donated to MANNA, you are helping provide 4 meals to our...
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Midnight MANNA
A Night of Service and Fun Saturday night is prime socializing time for high school students. But this past...
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