Category: The Hungry
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Volunteer Opportunity – Meals on Wheels
Meals On Wheels is calling for volunteers to deliver 8-10 mealsweekly to homebound seniors who live in Brevard and surroundingareas. MOW of Brevard delivers meals Monday-Friday, which includes allholidays. Our volunteers meet at Transylvania Regional Hospital at10:30am to pick up meal bags and head out to drive the routes.Generally, each driver has completed the route […]
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Fellowship of Christian Athletes
For 60 years, FCA has worked to help athletes and their coaches be strong role models of influence. Here in Transylvania County, FCA has direct access into our schools to meet each student, athlete, teacher, coach, and administrators where they are. The Fellowship of Christian Athletes is on the frontline serving our schools’ needs spiritually […]
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Anchor Baptist Church & Ministries – Food Bank
Anchor Baptist Church & Ministries has been serving the people of WNC with a food ministry since 1984. The food ministry has grown and expanded to now include a 17,500 square foot warehouse where they provide free and low-cost food available to the public 4 days a week. Grant funding will aid in operational expenses […]
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WNCSource – Shelf Stable Meals
Are you age 60 or over, do you live in Transylvania County, do you wish you had more easy to prepare food? If the answer is yes, we may be able to help! WNCSource just received an American Rescue Plan Act Grant to provide shelf stable 7 day meal boxes free of charge! Just call […]
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Meals on Wheels
Lake Toxaway Charities approved grant requests in 2020 & 2021 to fund Meals on Wheels programming. Meals on Wheels delivers hot lunches daily to the homes of house-bound seniors in the upper part of Transylvania County. Volunteers make these deliveries to recipients who are pre-enrolled with the program manager. Other funding is provided by the […]
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Transylvania County Farmer’s Market
The mission of the Transylvania Farmers Market is to encourage and promote local agriculture, horticulture, value-added, and craft industries in Transylvania County, North Carolina; to provide producers a site to market their goods directly to residents and visitors; to provide consumers a market to obtain quality goods directly from local producers; to promote health, wellness, […]
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North Toxaway Baptist Church Food Bank
The North Toxaway Baptist Church Food Bank was established in 2005 to provide for those in need in the local area, distributing food twice a month. In 2015, the Food Bank teamed with Manna Food Bank in Asheville, paying a small delivery fee and a portion of costs for the purchased food. Volunteers from the […]
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Bread of Life
The Bread of Life serves the poor, the disadvantaged, and the food-insecure residents of Transylvania County in an accepting, open, and non-threatening environment. The Bread of Life serves over 45,000 meals a year and distribute approximately 900 boxes of food for home preparation over the weekends. Bread of Life is the only regularly operating community kitchen providing […]
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Quebec Community Club
Lake Toxaway Charities awarded a grant in 2020 to replace gravel in the club’s parking lot and upgrade two bathrooms.
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Hunger Coalition of Transylvania County
The generous grants that we have received from Lake Toxaway Charities have helped underwrite our general budget each year. The additional funds and Covid-related grants that we’ve received during these past few months could thus be used directly for providing foods to the increased numbers of people who have benefited from our distributions.