With our food purchasing costs up and overall food donations down, we can’t stress enough how vitally important these donations are to our work and the neighbors we serve across 16 counties, including the Qualla Boundary. We’d like to thank our top food donors—who donated more than 10,000 lbs. of product—between July and December 2022:… Read more »
Thank You for Ensuring Our Neighbors Have Access to Food and Hope Since July, we have seen an increased need for food in our region. In fact, we are continuing to serve nearly the same number of people that we served during the peak of the pandemic. In the first quarter of our current fiscal… Read more »
A Chance to Support Our Neighbors’ Health As a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to highlighting the issues affecting the people we serve in Western North Carolina, we are passing along an important advocacy opportunity to our community of supporters. In WNC, medical debt is the largest debt impacting households’ ability to make ends meet. As we… Read more »
The Need for Food in WNC is Nearly Double Pre-Pandemic Numbers To put it in plain terms: MANNA is currently working very hard to overcome significant challenges right now to meet the historic need for food that exists in our region. While a lot of the world is returning to some sense of normalcy since… Read more »
The 30th Annual Ingles Giving Tree MANNA FoodBank and Ingles Markets are thrilled to announce the lighting of the 30th Annual Ingles Giving Tree, a milestone year for this beloved holiday tradition. This year’s Ingles Giving Tree arrives at a time when more families across our region are deeply burdened and struggling with putting food… Read more »
Round Up Campaigns & Community Events We are so grateful to all of our partners who are helping us during this critical time by providing various ways for people to get involved and help provide meals for neighbors this holiday season. Read through the list below to find out ways you can get involved. Harris… Read more »
A Day of Sunshine, Rides & Laura Lynn Cans Last month, the annual Ingles Day at the Mountain State Fair food drive took place. Attendees of the Fair were able to donate five cans of Laura Lynn products from Ingles in exchange for admission to the Fair. The beautiful weather and festivities led to a… Read more »
The 2022 Feeding WNC Conference This month we had the exciting opportunity to gather our network of over 230 partner agencies, community market partners, and other partners across WNC fighting to end hunger at Folkmoot in Waynesville, NC. The last time we were all able to gather was in 2019, and many things have changed… Read more »
An Award Winning Documentary Hunger is Real: Voices of Western North Carolina, a documentary produced by MANNA and directed by Adams Wood, has been accepted to eight film festivals. As of now, it has been shown at The North Carolina Film Festival, The Micropolitan Film Festival, Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival, Charlotte Film Festival… Read more »
And What We Can Do To Continue Meeting It Throughout our region, we are continuing to see individuals and families struggle to make ends meet. Due to disruptions in supply chains, the cost of living throughout WNC has reached historic and unsustainable levels. When visiting grocery stores and stopping at the gas station for fuel,… Read more »
