Manna Food Center Inc

Manna food center, inc distributes food through a network of almost 60 montgomery county public elementary schools. The program fills a critical gap by providing food to children and their families during the school year to ensure they have nutritious food to eat during the weekend. The program distributed 486,525 pounds of food to nearly 30,000 children this past school year. One of the organization's newer initiatives, schoolbased pantries, continued to expand by 3 additional pantries resulted in the organization's almost doubling service numbers, supporting 10,700 school age children and families overall, including 45,515 pounds of produce and pantry staples at the pantries.

Community food rescue (cfr): is a first-of-its kind, coordinated food recovery network led by the organization and building on the former food for agencies program. By partnering with a range of hunger relief organizations, volunteers and businesses, the initiative is making sure that edible food reaches hungry neighbors. Cfr builds upon the work of establishments already recovering good food before it is thrown away and identifies new donors. State-of-the-art technology makes real-time matches based on geography and transportation options. Trainings and mini-grants are offered to build capacity and increase food-rescuing capabilities.

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