Clarification (Feb. 25 1:54 a.m.): The graphic with this story made it seem that the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service does not use the extra food donations it receives. The IFC also distributes these “extra” donations.
When the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service posted on Twitter that it needed more tuna last week, people listened.
“People are bringing us tuna now,” said Chris Moran, executive director of the council.
With as many as 20,000 donations coming in to the council’s food pantry monthly, residents have shown they are responsive, said Kristin Lavergne, community services director. These donations are driven by the pantry’s greatest needs.
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Twitter:IFC_Carrboro</a></p><p>If you are making a large donation, please notify ahead of time.</p></blockquote> <p>About 10 volunteers receive, check and stock food donations, informing Lavergne of what items the pantry needs. She then puts the word out to local congregations and other groups.</p> <p>The pantry gives restocking priority to essential items like canned meat, canned fruit, rice and cereal. The most common donations are canned vegetables, pasta and beans.</p> <p>The essentials list is also given to groups wanting to do a food drive. When they get odd, sometimes ethnic foods, they’re put in a separate section of the shelf.</p> <p>Local food banks supply the pantry’s meat monthly, but the donations depend on surplus allotted by the government to the food banks, Lavergne said.</p> <p>“Any sort of meat we get tends to go quickly,” she said.</p> <p>Contact the City Editor at citydeskunc.edu.
