Montgomery Community Media

In this MyMCMedia extra, the director of the Manna Food Center says more food donations and monetary contributions are needed to meet the growing number of needy families in Montgomery County, especially during the month of December:   Related stories:  

Manna Food Center reports that a record number of people stood in line for food the week of Thanksgiving. In this MyMCMedia extra, the director of development at Manna Food Center tells us he was shocked by the numbers:   Related stories:  

In this MyMCMedia extra, Jackie DeCarlo says clients are coming back more often for food at Manna Food Center:   Related stories:  

When you think of Montgomery County, you may not think about people living here who are hungry. But Manna Food Center is seeing an increase in the number of people coming to their doors for food. In this MyMCMedia extra, Mark Foraker, director of development at Manna Food Center, says he was shocked to see […]

In this MyMCMedia extra, Manna Food Center’s Development Director Mark Foraker talks about the increased number of people coming thru the doors:

Manna Food Center opens at 8 a.m. At 7:15 a.m. in Gaithersburg, the cold sky promised rain, and the air chilled those exposed places on your neck and ears. Jackie, Manna’s Executive Director, arrived early to start her workday to find a woman waiting at the locked doors of Manna’s warehouse. At the height of […]

On Friday, I visited Oakland Terrace Elementary School in Silver Spring to speak with 85 second graders about hunger. The second graders at Oakland Terrace spent the past six weeks studying nutrition, and recently conducted a Healthy Cereal drive for Manna Food Center. Go second grade! In my visit, the 85 students and I discussed […]

Support Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce (GGCC) & Corporate Volunteer Council of Montgomery County (CVC-MC) Member Chazin & Company’s “Help Us Help Others” campaign. They will be hosting a philanthropic project each month for the remainder of the year. There will be a box for donated items (see list and respective months below) in their office for donations. With […]

In the last year, Manna served over 36,000 Montgomery County residents facing food insecurity. It is impossible to imagine distributing food to the children, seniors, and families of our community without the 32,000 volunteers (last year alone!) fostering Manna’s mission alongside our staff. Even on evenings, weekends and holidays, these gracious individuals donated 64,626 hours […]

Last week, while our Executive Director Jackie DeCarlo attended Maryland’s Hunger Action Symposium, the entire Nutrition Department (that’s Jenna Umbriac and little me) attended the Capital Area Food Bank’s Northern Virginia Hunger Summit: Love Food Hate Waste. In 2011 alone, Americans generated more than 36 million tons of food waste, with only four percent diverted […]