11/10/2025
Feed & Flourish NC Food Gift-Card Drive is a collaborative inter-community rapid response addressing the widespread food insecurity caused by the recent government shutdown, SNAP disruptions and benefit reductions—impacting 42 million Americans nationwide, including 1.4 million in North Carolina. In Mecklenburg County alone, 212,000 residents are affected, with 81,000 in Cumberland County, and rural areas such as Sampson, Robeson, and Cleveland Counties facing critical shortages among seniors. Wake, Rowan, and Cumberland counties are also seeing sharp increases in need, driven by furloughed federal workers and families facing financial hardship.
Local food banks are reporting unprecedented demand, with one Mecklenburg County partner noting a 1,000% surge in food assistance requests this month. The campaign reminds the public that SNAP supports not just the unemployed, but also families in crisis, foster children, seniors, and working households hit by temporary hardship.
Created by Flourish Foundation Project Inc., a federally recognized nonprofit (Tax ID 87-2552708) and community behavioral health provider, the Feed & Flourish NC initiative unites faith-based organizations, nonprofits, and business networks—including the NAACP Charlotte Chapter, Carolina Cares Food Banks & Pop-Up Pantries, Hounds of Business Networking Community, Kindness Worldwide, New Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Reeder Memorial Food Pantry, Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church, Ben Salem Presbyterian Church, Positive Reinforcement Ministries, SWAT (Serving with Accountability & Teamwork), Committed 2 Caring, and First Baptist Church of Fayetteville—to promote neighbors helping neighbors and build safe, caring, and globally competitive communities.
Feed & Flourish NC Food Gift-Card Drive initiative is part of flourish foundation projects commitment to safe, caring, & globally competitive communities. Flourish Foundation project Inc is a federally recognized nonprofit with tax exempt status. i
For more information, visit www.flourish.foundation or email [email protected].
To contribute or get involved, visit www.feedandflourishnc.org.
North Carolina's food banks and pantries are facing an unprecedented crisis. The looming threat to SNAP benefits, combined with federal furloughs, means more neighbors than ever are struggling to put food on the table. Feed & Flourish is an urgent, inter-community effort to provide life-sustaining f