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DocuSign Envelope ID: EB294A71-C7D1-4EE4-8287-60A6149320D4 <br /> beginning farmers, female farmers and farmers of color) with residents. IFC's <br /> Pantry has also hosted cooking demonstrations. <br /> • Inter-Faith Food Shuttle: IFFS donates food that would otherwise be thrown <br /> away once a week to the Pantry and twice a week to the Community Kitchen. <br /> • Food Bank of Central and Eastern NC: The Fond Bank administers and delivers <br /> The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) food to IFC. TEFAP is a <br /> federal program that supplements the diets of low-income Americans, including <br /> elderly people. <br /> • Weaver Street Market raises funds through the round up campaign, which <br /> allows IFC to regularly purchase fresh produce — apples, potatoes, and onions <br /> — at wholesale rates. This community project at least doubles the amount of <br /> fresh produce distributed to member households. <br /> To increase community access to healthy food, IFC leverages volunteer support. <br /> • Volunteers gather weekly food donations from grocery stores such as Trader <br /> Joe's, Fresh Market, and Harris Teeter, restaurants such as Panera, Chipotle and <br /> Caribou Coffee; congregations; and UNC-Chapel Hill dining services. Volunteers <br /> also receive, sort, stock and distribute food to Pantry members. <br /> • IFC recruits and maintains cooking rc� oups from congregations, neighborhoods, <br /> UNC-Chapel Hill, and businesses to prepare and serve meals at the Community <br /> Kitchen. <br /> • Liaisons representing 35+ congregations meet regularly for IFC updates, <br /> trainings, information sharing, organizing food collections and mobilizing <br /> volunteers and financial resources according to community need. <br /> To increase food security, IFC extends our reach by supporting smaller food security <br /> programs in our community: <br /> • The Community Kitchen provides surplus food donations every weekday to <br /> Heavenly Groceries, which began as a ministry of St Joseph's CME church and is <br /> now housed at the Marian Cheek Jackson Center, and often to Carolina Spring <br /> Senior Apartments, a low-income senior housing complex. <br /> • We share information and food resources with Chapel Hill-Carrboro Meals on <br /> Wheels, Orange Congregations-in Mission, PORCH and TABLE. <br /> Program Description (3 pages OR LESS) <br /> Please provide the following information about the proposed program: <br /> d) Summarize the program services proposed and how the program will address a <br /> Town/County priority/goal? <br /> The Community Kitchen provides around 68,000 free meals to IFC residents and <br /> hungry citizens every year. The Kitchen Manager schedules and trains volunteers to <br /> prepare and serve meals 365 days a year. Nearly all of the food is donated by local <br /> restaurants, food services, campus groups, farmers, congregations and businesses. <br /> The Community Kitchen relies heavily on volunteers— representing congregations, <br /> businesses, civic groups, neighborhoods and UNC-Chapel Hill - to prepare, serve and <br /> clean yip meals. Meal monitors support volunteer groups and address diner needs <br /> during the meal. Volunteers also pick up, receive, sort and store food donations. <br /> DO NOT SUBMIT THIS PAGE /123/2018 2:06:13 PM Page 31 of 37 <br />