Food Connection/UNCA Partnership

UNCA Asheville Partners with Asheville's Food Connection to Reduce Hunger

UNC Asheville Dining Services is partnering with Food Connection to donate approximately 100 pounds of nutritionally prepared food daily for distribution to Buncombe and Madison County

organizations in an effort to reduce hunger and food insecurity. Click HERE to learn more about the partnership, and click HERE to learn more about Food Connection, created by our own Flori Pate.

UNC Asheville's Brown Hall, which prepares a wide variety of food needed to serve 2,200cafeteria-style lunch and dinner meals to students, faculty, staff and campus visitors in an average day, is setting aside and donating trays of prepared food that is left over and not served. The university's dining hall staff packs, labels and refrigerates the food overnight for pick-up the following morning by Food Connection volunteers.

Food Connection gathers surplus food from restaurants and caterers in Asheville and delivers the food via a local taxi service to designated nonprofits. The goal is to reduce food waste and ease the pain of immediate hunger. Food Connection has delivered more than 7,000 meals since it began operations in December 14'.