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The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle
Each day there are thousands of people in our community who wake
up hungry and have no means to satisfy this basic human need.
Some have lost their jobs. Some hold two jobs. The challenges of
daily survival for these individuals and their families are daunting and
don't simply disappear.
We are the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle. We
believe that hunger is unacceptable, and we are doing something
about it. It's called food rescue. We've been doing it since 1989. We
know we make a difference. We know it makes good sense.
Our Mission
The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, in the belief that hunger is unacceptable, alleviates hunger by developing systems to recover, prepare and distribute wholesome, perishable food for the area's poor, hungry, undernourished and homeless.
Our History
In 1989, two women, Maxine Solomon and Jill Staton Bullard, witnessed breakfast sandwiches being thrown away in a fast food restaurant because it was time to put out lunch items. From that inauspicious beginning, the Food Shuttle has grown to be a powerful hunger relief organization providing food for thousands every day. Featured in publications as diverse as Southern Living, Franklin Covey's PRIORITIES Magazine, and Prentice Hall's 2001 9th grade civics textbook, the Food Shuttle is nationally recognized. The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle has won the Excellence in Food Rescue Award three times. It is also a member of the President's Circle of America's Second Harvest. More important than any national recognition, the Food Shuttle enjoys broad community support with volunteers donating over 38,000 hours each year and over 220 food donors contributing over 5 million pounds of food annually.
Our Creed
We are volunteers of all faiths dedicated to helping people from all walks of life. We will not discriminate in our service nor will we judge the needs of others. We will remember always to treat each person we meet with dignity and with respect, whether donor, recipient, or clients of an agency we are serving. The right of human dignity is a right that must be respected at all times.
Our Policy
The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle actively supports the advocacy efforts of America's Second Harvest, and Food Research & Action Center (FRAC). Our calling is to recover good food that would otherwise go to waste and get it to hungry people . By these efforts we can help people from being hungry today . But we are very aware that systemic changes need to be made if there is going to be an end to hunger in our county, our country or in the world. We encourage everyone who cares about the issues of hunger to follow legislative actions that will help or hurt the plight of the poor in our communities.
Our 2006 Annual Report
To get to know us better, please visit our Staff page and our Board of Directors page.
Copyright©2005-2008 Inter-Faith Food Shuttle P.O. Box 14638 Raleigh, NC 27620
(919) 250-0043 Monday-Friday 8-5.
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