Volunteer Spotlight: Anna Kearney
Anna Kearney lives in Knightdale. She is an Early Intervention Specialist who volunteers all across the IFFS program areas. With so many worthy nonprofits looking for volunteers, what brings you back...
View ArticleGuest Blog: Mobile Markets distribute food, foster community
Jason, Lilly, and Cameron Jason Pfister has been a member of Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s Board of Directors for almost three years. He is a commercial real estate attorney at Nexsen Pruet PLLC who lives...
View ArticleVolunteer Spotlight: Meghan Dempsey
Over the past year, Meghan Elain Dempsey has spent nearly all of her afternoons after school (and during Christmas break) volunteering as an intern with Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s Nutrition Education...
View ArticleStudents Learn Their Way Around the Kitchen
RALEIGH – One of the best ways to ensure wellness for youth and encourage family togetherness is by showing kids how to make mealtimes fun. A volunteer chef in Raleigh is making sure kids know their...
View ArticleVolunteer Spotlight: Casey Nesbitt
Casey Nesbitt is a senior in Applied Nutrition at NC State. Outside of class, the volunteer interns with Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s Nutrition Education team. There are so many great organizations in...
View ArticleVolunteer efforts help, teach Raleigh boys about needy classmates
When she learned that students she tutored at Wiley International Studies Magnet Elementary School in Raleigh were going hungry, Ilina Ewen was moved to help, and to teach her sons a lesson at the...
View ArticleVolunteer Spotlight: Ana Cardia
Ana Cardia lives in Cary. She is a Nutritionist and owner of Wholesome Eats LLC. She volunteers with our Nutrition Education team, teaching Cooking Matters classes. How did you come to volunteer for...
View ArticleVolunteer Spotlight—Kathy Jenkins, Bob Perry & Bill Finger, the “Dream Team”
Kathy, Bob & Bill are all retired and living in Raleigh. On Wednesday mornings they run the Food Recovery & Distribution Downtown Route as “The Dream Team.” They didn’t know each other until...
View ArticleVolunteer Spotlight: Sallie Simpson
Sallie Simpson helps with the Farm Stand most Saturdays and serves as culinary instructor for the Cooking Matters classes that are held at Urban Ministries. “Every person in the class realized tangible...
View ArticleCooking Matters at the Store: Holiday Edition
IFFS believes Nutrition Education is crucial to empowering people to meet their own food needs and growing a just and sustainable local food system that feeds everyone healthy, nutritious food....
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