Corporate Partners Archives - Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina

What it Feels Like to Bag 176,000 Meals for Families in Need

2014-09-11T11:50:49-04:00

By Theresa Volney Wilkinson, Cisco Volunteer It is a fact of life that every day, tens of thousands of people in the Raleigh/Durham area – all too many of them children -- go to bed hungry. In our country, which is blessed with so much, this is a real tragedy and should never happen. The [...]

An Idea from NetApp on How to Stop Summer Hunger

FBCENC2014-06-26T17:12:42-04:00

Many families look forward to summer—a season filled with cookouts, trips to the beach, and relaxation. For a lot of kids it means three blissful months without school, with their carefree days spent playing with friends. But for almost 300,000 children in our 34 county service area, no school means no meals. Summertime means playing [...]