Together, we can help end hunger in our community.

Right now, one in five people in central and eastern North Carolina don’t have enough to eat. There are many ways you can help provide food and hope to families, children, and seniors right here in our community.

Donate Funds

There are a host of ways to make a difference right now in the fight to end hunger. If you’re able, please take a minute to lend your  your financial support as we write the Food Bank’s next chapter together.

Individual Giving

Right now, one in five people in central and eastern North Carolina don’t have enough to eat. Your tax-deductible gift helps provide food and hope to families, children, and seniors right here in our community. Together, we can help people in our community during their greatest time of need. Every $10 you donate provides 50 meals!

Corporate & Community Giving

Support from businesses, foundations, and community-based organizations is vital to our vision for a future where no one goes hungry. Your investment can be designated to the focus area of your choice and may entitle your organization to recognition opportunities, unique volunteer experiences, and other special benefits.

Donate Food

The Food Bank gladly accepts donations of food, large and small, to distribute into the community through our network of partner agencies.

Individual & Food Drive Donations

The Food Bank welcomes the community to donate factory-sealed non-perishable products and beverages, refrigerated or frozen items and produce, and non-food essentials such as hygiene items, cleaning items, or paper products. Perishable items must be donated during business hours and not into one of the sheds. Due to food safety regulations, we ask that you not donate food items that are unsealed, loose items without ingredients listed, glass containers, or loose glass or plastic jars of baby food. These items must be discarded.

Food Industry Donations

The Food Bank works to provide the most nutritious and enjoyable foods possible to the communities we serve. Thanks to the generous support of our community, we’re able to work across the food system to obtain and provide access to food to people in need. We gladly accept food from retail donors, farmers and growers, and food manufacturers that is nutritious and safe for consumption yet might be considered unsellable.

Host a Food & Fund Drive

Learn everything you need to know (including locations, business hours, and most needed items list) to host a food and fund drive.

Donate Time

Did you know that a single person will sort and pack enough food in a volunteer shift to fuel more than 160 meals for local families?

Volunteer at The Food Bank

From sorting food in our warehouses, to distributing resources in the community, to advocating for stronger safety nets, volunteers are the heart and soul of our work at the Food Bank. Whether you’re an individual supporter or represent a large group, there are a host of opportunities to help bring us closer to a future where no one goes hungry — no matter where we live, where we’re from, or the color of our skin.

More Ways to Give

Give Online

Right now, one in five people in central and eastern North Carolina don’t have enough to eat. Your tax-deductible gift helps provide food and hope to families, children, and seniors right here in our community.

Corporate Giving

Corporate partners play a significant role in nourishing food-insecure neighbors, building solutions to end hunger, and empowering communities. Partnerships are a valuable way to promote corporate responsibility and engage employees.

Give Monthly

By setting up an automatic monthly gift, you’re sustaining the Food Bank as a trusted resource to neighbors who need it most.

Give Food

The Food Bank gladly accepts donations of food to distribute into the community through our network of partner agencies. These can come from personal food drives or donors within the food system.

Give by Mail

Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina
Attention: Donations
1924 Capital Boulevard
Raleigh, NC 27604

*Please be aware that our branches only accept packages during opening hours. For direct recipient contact information you may list fooddrive@foodbankcenc.org or 919.628.5089

Stock Donations

Step 1: Give this information to your brokerage firm to initiate a transfer:
Food Bank Account #: 773-111-614-011
Food Bank Depository Trust # (DTC): 0015
Food Bank Brokerage Firm:
The Capstone Group at Morgan Stanley
Jennifer Hinnant, Portfolio Associate 919.877.2424

Step 2: Once the transfer is initiated, fill out this form and mail to:
Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina
Attention: Donations
1924 Capital Boulevard
Raleigh, NC 27604
or email to: donorservices@foodbankcenc.org

Give by Crypto Currency

Through Food Bank partner, The Giving Block, the Food Bank may accept cryptocurrencies as gifts, subject to several conditions. Should the conditions be met, then cryptocurrency gifts may be accepted to fund any and all charitable activities:

The donor shall acknowledge and confirm that the gifted cryptocurrency
comes from the donor’s personal wallet and not from a third party.

The donor agrees that to the best of his or her knowledge, the
cryptocurrency being gifted is not derived from unlawful sources of activities.

All contributed cryptocurrencies will be sold as promptly as possible.

Unless otherwise predetermined, the value of the gift of the cryptocurrency
shall be the same methodology as that of fair-value marketable securities.

Donor Advised Funds

Give through your donor advised fund to make a difference in the lives of neighbors in central and eastern North Carolina. A donor advised fund, which is like a charitable savings account, gives you the flexibility to recommend how much and how often money is granted to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina and other qualified charities.

You can recommend a grant or recurring grants to support our hunger relief programs and initiatives to make an immediate impact. Or use your fund as a tool for future charitable gifts. If you include the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina in your plans, please use our legal name and federal tax ID.

Legal name: Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina

Address: 1924 Capital Blvd, Raleigh, NC 27604

Federal tax ID number: #56-1283426