Montgomery Community Media

This month, Whole Foods teamed up with Manna Food Center for National Kids’ Day of Service, an awesome event. Approximately 100 Montgomery County youth packed Smart Sacks, weekend food assistance bags, to help students and their families.  Manna’s Karen Goldberg Smart Sacks program began in 2005 and has grown over the past 8 years to […]

Mid-Atlantic Federal Credit Union (MAFCU) was a proud sponsor of the 2013 Montgomery County Agricultural Fair. MAFCU seized upon an innovative way to combat hunger in Montgomery County. At the 4-H’s Livestock Sale on August 16 they purchased a 1029-pound steer to donate to Manna Food Center. Manna expects the donation to feed close to […]

I’ve spent most of the past month at Manna learning how to manage our Smart Sacks’ program, that is, our weekend food assistance program for children experiencing hunger in Montgomery County schools.  Currently, we partner with 56 schools in the county and distribute just over 2,000 bags of food to students who would benefit from […]

Join Councilmember Valerie Ervin and special guests May 29 at AFI Silver Spring, 7 p.m. for a free screening of American Winter, a powerful documentary film about families that follows the personal stories of families struggling in the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Click here to register. American Winter is […]

Our volunteers are so important to us – without volunteers, Manna couldn’t collect, sort, or distribute all of the wonderful fresh produce and non-perishable goods we receive every year. Volunteers supplement our tiny staff, and allow us to serve hundreds of families each day with 70lbs of healthy food. Yesterday, one of our corporate partners, […]

Community Appreciation Event ART exhibition Manna Food Center is recognizing 30 years of fighting hunger and feeding hope in our community. We are inviting all students in Grades K – 12 to participate in a community-wide art exhibition to celebrate the collaboration and care of the community that helped build Manna. Submission theme is “fighting […]

The National Association of Letter Carriers annual Stamp Out Hunger drive happens on May 11 this year. Your Montgomery County letter carrier will pick up food left at your mailbox and deliver it to Manna Food Center: an easy way to contribute for our stock the shelves campaign. Manna’s own Jamal is featured in the […]

Thanks to all the Ride On bus riders this week, we’ve started picking up bins from Ride On’s Give and Ride food drive, and boy are they heavy! Imagine three large bins full of cans – or take a look! That’s 3,087 pounds of cans collected by Ride On drivers just this week. We’ll pick […]

Nataly Astorima, a Public Health Science student at the University of Maryland College Park, interned with Manna over the last few months. She worked with our nutritionist Jenna Umbriac to do surveys of our clients and speak to the community. Check out her experiences! Over the past 5 months, I have had the privilege of […]

During the spring and early summer, the non-perishable donations slow down here at Manna Food Center. In the high holiday times, so many think of their hungry neighbors and drop off non-perishable items at our doors, but after the holidays, people tend to forget that there is still hunger in Montgomery County. In April alone, […]