Feeding Greene Inc

Our home delivery program provides food to families with no transportation (and often disabilities) on the first and third wednesday of each month. We deliver pre-boxed groceries to families in greene county, often filling boxes to meet specific dietary needs. These families also qualify by income for cheap food and we often purchase low sugar and low sodium foods, as well as fresh produce for this program. We currently have 20 delivery routes with volunteers ranging from young adults to our retired community. With the help of these dedicated volunteers, in 2024 we were able to distribute 207,120 pounds of food at a value of $408,026. We estimate an average of 40 volunteers/month goes towards this program. We made 1,726 home deliveries to families in greene county in 2024. We continue to provide groceries to families that are sick or recovering from surgeries/injuries and unable to leave their homes. We work closely with the greene county schools, department of social services, jaba, and region ten to see that families have enough food each month. This is a program that we've offered for our entire 30 years in operation and continues to be a great service to our community.

Our backpack program is in our fourth year and is designed to meet the needs of childrn in our local school systems. As a result of our current economy, more and more families with children are still struggling. This program provides kid-friendly food for children to make their own meals over the weekend. This program runs during the school year with the help of about 20 volunteers each month, many of whom are also students. With the help of these dedicated volunteers in 2024 we were able to distribute 27,954 pounds of food at a value of $55,069. This includes poundage from summer kid boxes and holiday kid boxes from blue ridge area food bank. We provided 4,659 backpacks to children at 7 different locations in greene county. This program is needs-based with local schools determining the need and all food is either purchased or donated to us by our community.