The following CAFB partner agencies recieved shares of produce during this year’s harvest season:
Allen Chapel AME
Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church provides many different outreach ministries for their community including HIV/AIDS awareness programs, organizing community political events, prison ministry, cancer support ministry, a food bank, and providing food and clothing donations in subsidized apartment complexes.
Share the Harvest helps fund produce for two different programs at Allen Chapel. The Church provides a food pantry to the residents of wards 7 and 8 on Wednesdays and Fridays of each week to about 250 families, and to residents of the Knox Hill Senior Dwelling in southeast.
Bread For The City
Bread for the City provides vulnerable residents of Washington, DC, with comprehensive services, including food, clothing, medical care, and legal and social services, in an atmosphere of dignity and respect.
Share the Harvest helps fund fresh produce distributed at the food pantry for clients of Bread for the City. Eligible clients are low-income residents of DC who are elderly, disabled or families with children. Eligible clients may receive food every month, for a total of almost 5,000 grocery bags distributed monthly.
Columbia Learning International Ministries at Higher Ground Church
Since 1999 Higher Ground Church has provided transitional housing to persons experiencing homelessness in the DC metro area. The Anacostia service center aims to get its residents stabilized with permanent housing via a holistic approach to empowerment through practical education and outreach. This non-profit organization has about 300 units available for the housing of individuals for up to two years. During this time, residents are nourished by a philosophy grounded in both stability and sustainability.
Share the Harvest, in the past, has helped to more than double the amount of meals able to be served at the center, from about 1,200 served in 2010 without the grant to well over 3,000 in 2011 with the grant.
Father McKenna Center
Father McKenna Center is a center for Homeless men that seeks to improve the facilities and services available to the Homeless so that they will know that they are valued and loved; and to empower the Homeless to do more for themselves.
Share the Harvest helps fund produce to the 1,259 men in the drop-in center daily lunch weekly, 1,193 men at the Wednesday evening Peace meal weekly, and as well as distribute it to 332 food pantry clients and their families weekly.
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen provides individualized services that address the causes and consequences of homelessness in an atmosphere of dignity and respect, both directly and through facilitating connections in Washington, DC.
Share the Harvest helps fund the produce for the free, homemade meals made daily for more than 4,000 homeless men and women each year.
Refuge Ministries
Refuge Ministries is a food pantry in Suitland, MD which distributes between 800 and 1500 pounds of food per week to its clients. Refuge reaches about 300 families per month and also provides emergency clothing, among other outreach services.
Share the Harvest has served Refuge Ministries as the principle avenue for fresh produce access in an area which is considered to be a “food desert” with very few grocery stores and farmers markets. The immediate neighborhood benefits greatly from having a more centralized source for fresh produce, as the area has limited public transportation.
Rising Hope United Methodist Church
Rising Hope, through their on-site food pantry, offers food assistance to the community of Alexandria, VA on an emergency food basis. In addition to hunger relief, Rising Hope also offers life-skills education focusing on time management, responsibility, and decision making. The church encourages its members and its clients to be advocates for their community in their daily lives.
Share the Harvest has provided the funding necessary for what has been, in recent years, the only avenue for Rising Hope to obtain fresh produce for distribution.
True Vine Center
The True Vine Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization offering a number of educational, social and cultural programs to youths and adults living in the immediate area of Temple Hills, MD and those residing in its surrounding areas.
Share the Harvest helps fund produce for the food pantry of the Vine Program that provides a weekly food distribution each Wednesday and on an emergency basis to 50 clients and those who have a need.
