Steve McCrossan, Executive Director As you may know, the Everybody’s IGA grocery store, a church, and several businesses on Greenfield St. were recently destroyed in a fire. Since then, there have been lots of questions about this neighborhood becoming a food desert, what the future holds for the destroyed plaza, and a lot of “what can we [...]
Steve McCrossan, Executive Director NourishNC is thrilled to partner with New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC) in “Leading Our Community to Outstanding Health.” As part of its strategic emphasis on becoming a national leader in health equity, NHRMC launched its Health Equity Program. Health equity refers to the social reality that not all patients have [...]
February is Spread the Love month at NourishNC! We'll be sharing lots of short videos demonstrating the myriad of ways our supporters Spread the Love in our community. We also want to know “How will YOU Spread the Love?" and encourage you to share videos. There are so many ways to do this, so get your [...]
by Steve McCrossan, Executive Director WOW! What an amazing year 2017 was for NourishNC. Thanks to you NourishNC was able to expand our services at an unprecedented rate. With your support we are fulfilling our promise to be “anywhere and everywhere” hungry kids need us in New Hanover County. We now provide nutritious food to [...]
by Steve McCrossan, Executive Director The holidays are here and you are looking for ways to give back to your community. That’s great because we have lots of ideas on how you can act to help the most vulnerable in our community. Let’s get right in to how you can take action this holiday season. [...]
Bring Our Kids Something Good to EAT! By Kellie Furr, Program Director Thursday, October 26th 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. 601 Greenfield St. Wilmington, NC 28401 Admission: 1 Bag of Food from our Most Wanted List Pre-Registration is required. Click Reverse Trick-or-Treat to sign up! We Won’t Let Hunger Haunt Our Kids this Halloween! We’re hosting the [...]
by Steve McCrossan, Executive Director WOW! What an amazing year for NourishNC! We have greatly expanded upon our mission and our vision “to be anywhere and everywhere hungry children in New Hanover County need us.” This past year we have added 123 more children and 6 schools to our Backpack Program. We have also added [...]
By Steve McCrossan, Executive Director A quick glance: NHRMC provided 30 volunteers to distribute over 2,000 pounds of farm fresh fruits and vegetables to 198 kids and their families on the Northside NHRMC employees collected 12,852 food items worth $11,952 WOW! Our partnership with New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC) is off to a tremendous [...]
Forget all that talk about how bad 2016 was. NourishNC crushed 2016! We have been, and continue to be, successful because of your willingness to act on behalf of hungry children in our community. It takes a village of volunteers, donors, school personnel, partner organizations, nonprofits, and other supporters to feed 709 children in [...]
This article, “Stop Donating Canned Goods to Food Drives…” has been making the rounds on social media this week. We have received several requests for NourishNC to comment on this article so here we go…. First, let’s start with a philosophy that we believe should drive all giving. The best thing a nonprofit can do [...]
