The mission of the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina is: No One Goes Hungry in Central & Eastern North Carolina.

Established in 1980, the Food Bank is a nonprofit organization that has provided food for people at risk of hunger in 34 counties for over 35 years. The Food Bank serves a network of more than 800 partner agencies such as soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters, and programs for children and adults through distribution centers in Durham, Greenville, New Bern, Raleigh, the Sandhills (Southern Pines) and Wilmington.

Sadly, food insecurity remains a serious problem in central and eastern North Carolina. In these counties, more than 636,920 people struggle to access nutritious and adequate amounts of food necessary for a healthy life.

For more information on the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina please visit http://www.foodbankcenc.org

We’ve partnered with Food Donation Connection.

Food Donation Connection provides an alternative to discarding surplus wholesome food by linking food service donors with surplus food to local hunger relief agencies. They do this by creating and maintaining an efficient communication and reporting network that links available sources of food to those in need through existing charitable organizations.

Food Donation Connection manages food donation programs for food service companies interested in donating food. The donating process is based on donors receiving economic benefit through tax savings in addition to involvement with community and corporate goodwill.

If you would like to be a part of the donor network visit: http://www.foodtodonate.com/Fdcmain/PartnerDonateFood.aspx

For more information about the Food Donation Connection, please call  (800) 831-8161 or visit www.foodtodonate.com

Good360 is a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan nonprofit that works with companies, charities, and individuals to make the business of giving simpler, more efficient and more effective. The Alexandria, Virginia-based organization was created in 1983 to help companies donate inventory to charitable organizations. Today, Good360 is changing the face of philanthropy by creating a Circle of Good that allows companies, nonprofits, and individuals to work together to do more social good together through product giving.

Good360 transforms lives and strengthens communities by mobilizing national companies to donate critically needed goods.

Here’s How They Do It
They Partner with hundreds of companies, including 125 on the Fortune 500 list such as Bed Bath & Beyond, Disney, GAP, HP, Sears, Home Depot, 3M, Tempur Sealy International, Walmart, and the list goes on.

This helps their Partner companies decrease their carbon footprint and increase their products’ end of life by using their goods to give back in their communities – not add them to landfills.

Allow Qualified Non Profits, such as Spreading Seeds, to purchase donated goods like diapers, toys, mattresses, clothes, computers, and more, for pennies on the dollar.

2016 Impact
Distributed $9 billion in critical goods to serve more than six million people in need around the world, including more than 180,000 personal care products like shampoo, 170,000 articles of clothing, and 815 computers.

Distributed 4 Million Diapers, 10,000 Mattresses, 8,000 cartons of clothing and accessories to underprivileged families. They help charities save over $400 Million!

For more information on Good360 please visit https://good360.org/

Reward Volunteers is a web-based program that tracks and rewards the efforts of volunteers and the organizations they serve. With Reward Volunteers, volunteers log and track their hours, and may post their activity to Facebook. The more hours accrued and the more sharing that occurs, the more chances volunteers have to win prizes for themselves and the more chances their beneficiary organizations have to win money and prizes as well.

For more information on Reward Volunteers please visit https://rewardvolunteers.coop/