PORCH Wilmington

09/30/2026

🎃👻 Welcome October! 👻🎃

We’re planning a fun Halloween-themed PORCH Food Drive Challenge for our Middle Sound neighborhoods (and other areas if you'd like to join!), with a little friendly competition thrown in!

Every pound collected on our October collection day will count, and we’ll see which neighborhood can collect the most! The winner gets bragging rights! 🏆👻

And this month, Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard needs are:

🍗 Canned chicken & other canned meats
🥦 Plastic cups of vegetables
🥫 Canned vegetables with pop-tops
🛍️ Brown paper bags with handles

P.S. If you have time, please double-bag your paper bags! It saves SO much time for the MHC packers. ❤️

📅 October Collection Days:

🎃 Most Middle Sound Loop neighborhoods — Friday, 10/23
👻 Emerald Forest — Thursday, 10/22
🕷️ Anchor’s Bend — Saturday, 10/24

So start saving those cans, boxes and bags… the competition is on! 🎃

Let’s scare away hunger this October! 👻❤️

Thank you for helping neighbors help neighbors! Every bag, every can and every donation makes a difference.

If you don’t live in one of these neighborhoods, you’re still welcome to drop off a donation — or start a PORCH food drive in your own neighborhood! Message me and I’d love to help you get started.

09/29/2026

A bag of groceries left on a front step. That's what being a good neighbor looks like to us. 🏡

Once a month, PORCH volunteers in hundreds of neighborhoods pick up the food their neighbors leave out and take it straight to local pantries. There's no big event, just neighbors helping neighbors, one porch at a time.

This National Good Neighbor Day, you could be the one who brings PORCH to your neighborhood. It takes only a few hours a month and a handful of neighbors who care, and we'll help you with the rest.

👉 Get involved: https://hubs.ly/Q04yl2Pp0

09/29/2026

❤️ Thank you for your continued support! September was an AMAZING month! ❤️

The Ogden Book Club, Orange Theory of Wilmington (Mayfaire), and Register Place Estates contributed 255 pounds of food, while Wendover South/The Fields donated an incredible 576 pounds of food PLUS $50 for Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard!

That’s a grand total of 831 POUNDS of food collected to help our neighbors in need! 👏👏👏

🎃👻 And now… October! 👻🎃

We’re planning a fun Halloween-themed PORCH Food Drive Challenge for our Middle Sound neighborhoods, with a little friendly competition thrown in!

Every pound collected on our October collection day will count, and we’ll see which neighborhood can collect the most! The winner gets bragging rights! 🏆👻

📅 October Collection Days:
🎃 Most Middle Sound Loop neighborhoods — Friday, 10/23
👻 Emerald Forest — Thursday, 10/22
🕷️ Anchor’s Bend — Saturday, 10/24

So start saving those cans, boxes and bags… the competition is on! 🎃

🧡 Let’s scare away hunger this October!

Thank you, as always, for helping neighbors help neighbors. Every bag, every can and every donation makes a difference. ❤️

09/28/2026

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A bag of groceries left on a front step. That's what being a good neighbor looks like to us. 🏡

Once a month, PORCH volunteers in hundreds of neighborhoods pick up the food their neighbors leave out and take it straight to local pantries. There's no big event, just neighbors helping neighbors, one porch at a time.

This National Good Neighbor Day, you could be the one who brings PORCH to your neighborhood. It takes only a few hours a month and a handful of neighbors who care, and we'll help you with the rest.

👉 Get involved: https://hubs.ly/Q04yl2Pp0

09/13/2026

September is — a time to reflect on the needs in our community and take action to help all of our neighbors thrive! ❤️

We’re already off to a GREAT start! My book club collected 60 pounds of food, and the Mayfaire OrangeTheory location collected more than 250 pounds for PORCH.

A reminder for our Middle Sound Loop neighbors: Friday, September 25th is collection day for most neighborhoods in the area. Please have your PORCH donations out and ready for your neighborhood coordinator to collect that morning. 🥫❤️

August was ONE FULL YEAR of neighbors coming together to fight hunger! 🎉

Over the past year, our incredible PORCH Wilmington neighborhoods have collected an amazing 7,996 pounds of food for our local food pantries!

That’s the equivalent of approximately 6,663 meals for our neighbors in need.

What started with a few neighborhoods has grown into an amazing group of people who continue to show up month after month. This is what neighbors helping neighbors looks like.

Thank you to every volunteer, coordinator, donor, and neighbor who has been part of this journey. Your generosity truly makes a difference!

Here’s to another year of coming together and making an impact in our community! 💙

*If you are not in the MSL area and would like to start a PORCH in your neighborhood or donate, please email me!

09/10/2026

💙 Neighbors helping neighbors! 💙

A huge THANK YOU to Mayfaire’s Orangetheory Fitness for wanting to make a difference in our community! Jason F., a frequent PORCH Wilmington donor, teamed up with Katie, the Orangetheory gym manager, to organize a food collection for Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard.

Together, they collected over 250 pounds of food this month! 🎉🥫

That’s approximately 208 individual meals for our neighbors facing food insecurity. What an incredible impact from one local gym and a group of people willing to give a little to help others.

I am so grateful for community partners like Jason, Katie, and everyone at Orangetheory who stepped up to support PORCH Wilmington. This is exactly what neighbor-to-neighbor hunger relief is all about! ❤️

250+ pounds. 208+ meals. One community coming together to help.

Thank you for helping keep the shelves at Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard stocked! 🙌

09/08/2026

She receives help. And then, quietly, she pays it forward.

Her husband is a disabled veteran. She comes to The Journey Ministry Pantry each week on behalf of them both — because getting there isn't something he's able to do.

But what she does with what she receives goes beyond her own household. Some of what she brings home finds its way to the neighbors on her street who can't get out on their own — people with no way to reach a pantry and no one else to ask.

She didn't set out to be someone's lifeline. She just knew what it felt like to need one.

She is, by every definition, a neighbor. And she found her way to that role through a pantry that first took care of her.

👉 Read The Faces of Hunger: https://hubs.ly/Q04w3S2y0

This September, we're proud to stand with Feeding America in the fight against hunger.

09/08/2026

They may not be who you think they are.

Nearly 48 million Americans don’t know where their next meal is coming from on any given day. One of them might be your neighbor.

September is Hunger Action Month — and this year, we're telling the stories that statistics can't. Through our partnership with The Journey Ministry Pantry in Youngsville, NC, we sat down with the people who show up week after week — volunteers, leaders, and the families they serve — to ask a simple question: who in our community doesn't have enough to eat?

The answer might surprise you.

This month, we're sharing The Faces of Hunger — a series of real stories from real neighbors. We invite you to read their stories and share the blog with your friends. Could one of these faces be someone on your street?

👉 Read the full story: https://hubs.ly/Q04w3HcJ0

This September, we're proud to stand with Feeding America in the fight against hunger.

09/03/2026

09/02/2026

📚❤️ August’s Ogden Book Club meeting was extra special! Together, our book club donated 60 pounds of food to PORCH Wilmington for Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard.

It was the perfect way to celebrate ONE YEAR as a PORCH Wilmington Chapter Leader! I’m so grateful to be part of a community that comes together to help our neighbors and fight hunger right here in Wilmington.

Thank you, Ogden Book Club, for helping me celebrate this milestone by giving back! ❤️🥫