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Help Fight Childhood Hunger and Get a Shirt!

March 26, 2020 by macwinslow

Since The Food Drive Kids’ 2020 Food Drive has been postponed, we are offering you another way to get this year’s t-shirt. The 2020 Food Drive Kids t-shirt is available with a donation of $25! 100% of the proceeds will go towards helping partners like the Interfaith Food Shuttle’s Backpack Buddies program, and stocking and expanding our network of little free pantries. This will help kids access food while they are out of school!

Please fill out the form below to make a donation to fight childhood hunger and get your limited edition Food Drive Kids t-shirt!


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2022 Food Drive To Fight Childhood Hunger

February 29, 2020 by macwinslow


Our Annual Food Drive is our biggest and most impactful event of the year! Every year, we station volunteers at 10 grocery stores in the Triangle area and ask them to donate to help feed hungry kids. 2022 will be our 10th annual food drive.

On April 23, 2022, we had volunteers at the following stores collecting shelf-stable items from 10-6 to send home with kids on the weekends.

  • Food Lion – 3415 Avent Ferry Rd., Raleigh
  • Food Lion – 2420 Wycliff Rd., Raleigh
  • Food Lion – 8475 Holly Springs Rd., Raleigh
  • Food Lion – 2861 Jones Franklin Rd., Raleigh
  • Harris Teeter- 5563 Western Blvd, Raleigh (Collection ending at 4 PM)

If you can’t donate in person, you can donate online by clicking here.

In the last 10 years, we have collected over 65,000 pounds of food and over $65,000 to help end childhood hunger. This year we collected an additional $10,000 and 5,000! The food & funds collected go to the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle to support their childhood hunger efforts, to help stock our network of Little Free Pantries, and other childhood hunger initiatives.

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Food Drive For Backpack Buddies – 2019

April 27, 2019 by macwinslow

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2019 food drive for backpack buddies

2019 Food Drive for Backpack Buddies

Pounds of Food Raised
Dollars Raised
Number of Volunteers

The Food Drive Kids and their volunteers pulled off another amazing food drive for Backpack Buddies in 2019! We had over 160 volunteers sign up to help fight childhood hunger.These volunteers worked in 2 hour shifts at 10 grocery stores located in Raleigh, Cary, Apex, and Durham. With their help, and after some small changes in how we operated the food drive, we broke a record. In 2019 we collected more food than ever, pulling on over 11,700 pounds of food! We will continue to collect monetary donations for an additional week in hopes of reaching our cash goal of $10,000.

The food and money collected during this year’s food drive will go to support the Backpack Buddies program at The InterFaith Food Shuttle. The program serves almost 2900 children in central NC who are at risk of hunger by giving them backpacks of food to help sustain them on the weekends.

One of the most amazing things from 2019 was the growth in our volunteer pool. We have volunteers from all over the community as well as volunteers representing many organizations including Cub Scout Pack 398, Boy Scout Troop 398, MacNair’s Country Acres 4-H Club, Girl Scout Troop 1692, Raleigh Ki Aikido, and many others! Thanks to all of our donors and volunteers for making this year’s food drive a huge success.

The team at the Harris Teeter at Tryon Villiage collected more donations, both cash and food, than any other store!

Read about our annual food drive and other ways we fight childhood hunger here.

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Paving the Way at Eastway

March 25, 2018 by macwinslow

On March 24, 2018. The Food Drive Kids sponsored the construction a a garden at Eastway Elementary in Durham, NC to help support The Interfaith Food Shuttle’s Urban Agriculture Education Program. Together with The Boy Scouts of The Occoneechee Council, and many others we had over 30 volunteers come together to build a garden that will enable some amazing in class educational programs utilizing its unique outdoor classroom space. It will also support after school programs like Sprout Scouts, as well as other collaborations with local 4-H programs. It is throug hgardens like this that we can help create a break in the cycle of hunger and create sustainable hunger relief. Watch the progress here:

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2017 Food Drive was the Biggest Yet

January 10, 2018 by macwinslow

In 2017 the goals were just as high as ever and the generosity of the community rose to met the challenge. With 10 grocery stores staffed on April 22, 2017 by over 160 volunteers we made a big dent in childhood hunger in our area. This drive generated 10,000 pounds of food and $10,420 to benefit the BackPack Buddies program that is run by The Interfaith Food Shuttle. Every year the Backpack Buddies program packs over 450,000 meals for kids who don’t have enough to eat on te weekends when they cannot rely on school breakfast and lunch.

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