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. The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle believes that hunger is unacceptable, and are doing something about it. It's called food rescue and they have been doing it since 1989.
MISSION
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle pioneers innovative, transformative solutions designed to end hunger in our community.
HISTORY
In 1989 two women, Jill Staton Bullard and Maxine Solomon, watched as good food was thrown into trashcans because "breakfast was over" at a fast food restaurant. They realized that restaurants and grocery stores all over the city were discarding foodstuffs that were close to their expiration time or date, but which were still edible and nutritious. They decided to do something to rescue good food before it was dumped. Jill and Maxine founded and incorporated as a North Carolina non-profit in November 1989 and became an IRS recognized 501c3 in 1992. They believed then, as they still do now, that good food should be feeding people and not filling landfills, particularly when our landfill space is limited and finite.
Every year they are able to rescue more nourishing food. In 1989, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle recovered just 750 pounds of food from 3 food donors. In the calendar year 2003, before moving into their new building, they recovered 4.2 million pounds of food from over 220 food donors. By the end of 2009 they recovered 6.2 million pounds of food and project to recover 6.7 million in 2011.
For more information on the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle go to http://www.foodshuttle.org
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