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 »
MANNA’s 2020-2021 Annual Report Throughout yet another unprecedented year, MANNA has witnessed a consistent and overwhelming outpouring of support from our community. Thanks to you, our incredible community of volunteers and supporters, we were able to serve an average of 125,000 individuals every single month throughout our most recent fiscal year. Over 2,400 individual volunteers… Read more »
Ways to Get in the Holiday Spirit, While Providing Food for our WNC Neighbors The holidays are the most wonderful time of the year. People are encouraged to think of others and do what they can to spread joy throughout their community, while lifting their neighbors and the people around them. Here, at MANNA, we… Read more »
Planned Giving at MANNA Did you know that you could impact the lives of future individuals experiencing food insecurity by learning more about our planned giving legacy program? If you are interested, please start here to learn about the different gift options available to you. We will be happy to work with you to find… Read more »
MANNA is Looking for Volunteer Drivers Volunteer drivers play an essential role in our operations. After MANNA has procured food and packed it in our warehouse, it is our drivers who make sure that the food reaches families in WNC. If you are interested in driving one of MANNA’s box trucks and joining our incredible… Read more »