1 03, 2025

Your Support Empowers Women Experiencing Hunger

2025-04-04T14:28:13-04:00

All of us at the Food Bank celebrate the strength, resilience, and incredible contributions of women and girls everywhere. We also recognize the disproportionate challenges women face, particularly when it comes to food insecurity. Double Your Impact Today Women face social, systemic, and [...]

Your Support Empowers Women Experiencing Hunger2025-04-04T14:28:13-04:00
17 01, 2025

Now Recruiting: Restaurants & Caterers to Support Kids Summer Meals

2025-03-07T10:11:06-05:00

Right now, more than 173,000 people under the age of 18 in our communities don't know where their next meal might come from. That's one in five kids and teens facing hunger across central and eastern North Carolina. And these challenges are even worse during the summer months when school meals are [...]

Now Recruiting: Restaurants & Caterers to Support Kids Summer Meals2025-03-07T10:11:06-05:00
31 12, 2024

Become A Kids Summer Meals Host Site: Learn More at Upcoming Info Sessions

2025-03-10T13:30:13-04:00

Right now, more than 173,000 people under the age of 18 in our communities don't know where their next meal might come from. That's one in five kids and teens facing hunger across central and eastern North Carolina. And these challenges are even worse during the summer months when school meals are [...]

Become A Kids Summer Meals Host Site: Learn More at Upcoming Info Sessions2025-03-10T13:30:13-04:00
19 09, 2024

Food Lion Drives Toward a Summer Without Hunger

2024-09-20T16:33:35-04:00

Major new efforts help to connect more children and families throughout the region to nutritious food There's a reason you see the Food Bank and Food Lion together so frequently – it’s a relationship that goes back decades and one that’s very important across North Carolina and beyond. Volunteers from [...]

Food Lion Drives Toward a Summer Without Hunger2024-09-20T16:33:35-04:00
3 08, 2024

Weekend Power Packs: Helping Kids Thrive

2024-08-03T17:06:09-04:00

We know that kids thrive when they have access to no-cost breakfast and lunch at school. Research consistently shows that healthy school meals help kids pay attention and stay engaged — which leads to better grades, more consistent attendance, and higher graduation rates. It's why we're big fans of the School [...]

Weekend Power Packs: Helping Kids Thrive2024-08-03T17:06:09-04:00
29 05, 2024

Community Leaders Mark the First Full Year of Impact at Wilmington’s nCino Hunger Solutions Center

2024-07-19T18:52:36-04:00

Local hub distributed 8.7+ million meals as food insecurity hit 15-year high Community leaders gathered at the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina (the Food Bank) in Wilmington this week to mark the one-year anniversary of the nCino Hunger Solutions Center. Opened in 2023 after a community-led fundraising campaign, [...]

Community Leaders Mark the First Full Year of Impact at Wilmington’s nCino Hunger Solutions Center2024-07-19T18:52:36-04:00
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