Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina, Inc. - GuideStar Profile

Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina, Inc. - GuideStar Profile
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Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina, Inc.
Nourish people. Build solutions. Empower communities.
Raleigh, NC
Mission
Nourish people. Build solutions. Empower communities.
Ruling year
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1981
President & CEO
Amy Beros
Main address
1924 Capital Blvd
Raleigh, NC 27604-2147 USA
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Fundraising Contact
Cody Meyers
Vice President of Development
Fundraising contact phone: (940) 3685409
[email protected]
Physical Address
1924 Capital Blvd
Raleigh, NC 27604-2147
Payment Address
1924 Capital Blvd
Raleigh, NC 27604-2147
Donation Payable
Legal name of organization: Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina, Inc.
EIN for payable organization: 56-1283426
Formerly known as
Food Bank of North Carolina, Inc.
EIN
56-1283426
NTEE code
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Human Service Organizations (P20)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Among the largest anti-hunger organizations in the United States, the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina works every day to provide food to people in need while advancing long-term solutions to end hunger in our communities.

For more than 40 years, the Food Bank and our Branch locations have served as the central hub of a network that has grown to 700+ partner programs across a 34-county region — including free food markets, pantries, meal sites, and a host of initiatives serving children, adults and seniors. Together, we’re working to overcome hunger and create an environment where everyone in North Carolina can thrive.
Our programs
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success,
and who do the programs serve?
Nourishing Families of All Sizes
The Food Bank is working to provide more access to the healthiest food possible to the families we serve, distributing more meals every year to continue reducing the increasing meal gap. Goals for Nourishing Families • Safely and efficiently distribute 90 million meals to our 34 counties based on the equitable food distribution model and looking at accessibility and gaps in service • Increase local agriculture partnerships to increase efficiencies, reduce waste, and support the local food system • Maintain collaboration with and support of Partner Agencies, including visits to ensure food safety, distribution, increased engagement, and capacity to support their efforts in nourishing families • Maintain organization volunteer hours in the range of 250,000 hours, which equates to an additional 116 full-time employees
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Unemployed people
Children and youth
Building Solutions to End Hunger
We work to support & empower the people we serve by increasing access to food & services, such as healthcare, employment skills, and nutrition education. The Food Bank’s Benefits Outreach Coordinators provide information and application assistance to seniors, working families, individuals living with disabilities, people without permanent addresses, and military families to bridge this gap & bring more federal dollars to our communities. The Food Bank was founded to address the community health issue of hunger. We understand that ensuring no one goes hungry must not only include access to food, but advocating for policies that benefit people in our communities and lift people out of the cycle of hunger. Goals for Building • Continue advocating alongside the people we serve utilizing the Public Policy Platform • Expanding our reach with new outreach strategies & workforce development opportunities. • Develop a Standardized Quality of Care procedure
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Unemployed people
Building Innovation
In order to improve our capacity to distribute food safely and efficiently to people in need, the Food Bank works with our partner agencies to provide opportunities and support such as nutrition education materials, equipment (refrigerators, freezers, etc.), and training on fundraising, efficient operations, and food safety. The majority of our partners obtain most, if not all, of the food they distribute from the Food Bank, directly or through retail and agriculture partnerships. Particularly in the throes of the pandemic, this would not have been possible without our secure infrastructure of food resources and education. Goals for Building Innovation • 3 trucks to improve efficiency and the ability to distribute more food • Cultivate and grow efficiencies of the Retail Donation Program • Infrastructure investments in volunteer capacity, warehouse repairs, and equipment cost increases
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Unemployed people
Building Sustainable Solutions
The Food Bank’s vision is “No one goes hungry,” and while we work to distribute more healthy and nutrient-rich food every year, offer education tools and workforce development, and benefits outreach for partner agencies and individuals, we know that hunger will not end tomorrow. For this reason the Food Bank established an endowment fund to generate sustainable revenue for our community’s future. The Food Bank has worked since 1980 to serve our friends and neighbors in need, and thanks to the tremendous generosity and support of those committed to solving hunger, we will be a part of central and eastern North Carolina for as long as needed. Funding Needs • Our endowment provides certain, steady support permanently for tomorrow. Legacy gifts through your estate or planned gift will make a lasting impact on the future of our communities by funding the Food Bank's Endowment Fund.
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Unemployed people
Nourishing Seniors, Children & Teens
Our dedicated staff goes into communities to meet folks where they already are: providing boxes of food right to their doors, operating grab n’ go meal sites, pantries at their schools and health centers, meals to take home on weekends and school breaks, hot foods at after-school care, and breakfast and lunch at summer camps. Every year, the Food Bank provides healthy food to children and seniors so they can build the skills to be healthy, connected, and whatever they want to be in life, and the Food Bank also advocates for the policies that ensure programs like these remain in reach. Goals for Nourishing Seniors, Children, & Teens • Safely and efficiently distribute 90 million meals including 29 million meals dedicated to nourishing children and teens in our 34 counties. • Provide 4 million meals through child nutrition and senior program sites
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Unemployed people
Families
Non-adult children
Nourishing Historically Resilient Communities
Over the Food Bank’s more than 40 years of operation, we’ve learned that systemic issues and lack of access to resources and programs lead to inequities in the communities we serve. Many people can experience hunger because of a lost job, injury or illness, divorce, unexpected expense, or some other episode. Communities that have been marginalized, such as the American Indian, Black, Hispanic, and rural communities face systems and policies that block their paths to a livable wage and a sustainable life. Goals for Nourishing Historically Resilient Communities • Safely and efficiently distribute 90 million meals — Increasing partnerships with organizations already serving communities that have been marginalized. — Sourcing food with an equity lens and dietary needs. — Implementing more ‘llast mile’ services to increase access to food for communities that have fewer options due to location or work schedules.
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Unemployed people
Ethnic and racial groups
Empowering Health & Communities
Through partnerships with local farmers and growers and investments in transporting and distributing fresh food, produce has become a staple at the Food Bank, and represented about 40% of the food that went into communities in 2022. We utilize our on-site teaching kitchen and video recipe hub to offer cooking demonstrations and nutrition education, and work directly with our Partner Agencies to implement choice and their own nutrition information. Goals for Empowering Health & Communities • Produce distribution of 41 million lbs. • Collaborate with community partners to support the creation of regional food councils and local food systems. • Ensure over 70% of food distributed is classified as Foods to Encourage—the most nutritious foods possible to contribute to good health. • Supporting and retaining 50 Healthy Pantries and 9 Healthcare-site Pantries (Food as Medicine focus), and continuing to onboard new sites.
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Unemployed people
Where we work
Durham (North Carolina, United States)
Greenville (North Carolina, United States)
New Bern (North Carolina, United States)
Raleigh (North Carolina, United States)
Southern Pines (North Carolina, United States)
Wilmington (North Carolina, United States)
Awards
Agency of Excellence
2007
Triangle United Way
Agency of Excellence
2008
Triangle United Way
Agency of Excellence
2009
Greater Triangle United Way
Excellence in Food Banking: Food Access
2013
Feeding America
Friend of School Nutrition
2016
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
Sir Walter Raleigh Award Community Appearance
2017
City of Raleigh
Healthiest Employers
2019
Triangle Business Journal
Member of the Year
2020
Feeding America
Affiliations & memberships
America's Second Harvest - Affiliate
1984
Feeding America
Photos
Videos
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Holiday Meals 2025
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Food Bank and Partners Nourish Kids and Families
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"We're ready for whatever the world gives us"
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Food Bank 101: The Differences Between a Food Bank and a Food Pantry
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Follow the Food
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A Reflection on 40 Years
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Path to Ending Hunger Podcast
Our results
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
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Number of volunteers
This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Related Program
Type of Metric
Other - describing something else
Direction of Success
Context Notes
Number of meals provided annually (using Feeding America pounds to meals calculation)
This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Related Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Meals provided to individuals, children, seniors and families.
Goals & Strategy
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Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The Food Bank is working every day to grow and develop to meet our mission, with an all-encompassing value of incorporating Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion discussions, actions, and measurements, through the following strategies:
1. Nourish more people in our communities.
2. Build solutions that will ultimately end hunger.
3. Empower communities to overcome hunger, creating an environment where all North Carolinians thrive.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We took our mission and vision and spent time thinking about what strategic steps we
could take as an organization in the next 3 years that will truly impact reaching the
vision of no one going hungry.
This process evolved to include equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) as a foundational
component of our work, as well as ensuring that the Food Bank brand can be
strengthened and helpful to our partners in this work.
Within this process, the Food Bank workgroups held listening sessions and got
feedback from our partner agencies as well as the people we serve to help ensure the
initiatives we built were collaborative and reflective of the needs of the community.
Why now?
We could not anticipate the incredible impact the COVID-19 pandemic had for the
people and communities we serve. The environment we’re operating in now is vastly
different from any time in the Food Bank’s 40 years of service.
The community, and really the whole country, has developed a greater awareness of
food insecurity, of how many families and individuals live so close to the edge in putting
food on the table.
We have an opportunity, and a responsibility, to look deeper and develop approaches to
support people on the cusp of food insecurity before they find themselves needing the
services of the hunger relief system.
Through nourishing people, building solutions, and empowering communities, we’re
being innovative: building on and strengthening tactics that will move the needle toward
food security, ultimately realizing our vision of no one going hungry.
A Phased Approach
Knowing so many members of our community are living one health crisis, one missed
paycheck, one grocery trip away from needing the Food Bank network makes it clear
that a phased approach to plan implementation is vital.
Please see our strategic plan outline on our website foodbankcenc.org/stratplan
How we listen
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
done
We shared information about our current feedback practices.
How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We act on the feedback we receive, We share the feedback we received with the people we serve, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently, Staff find it hard to prioritize feedback collection and review due to lack of time
Financials
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Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina, Inc.
Board of directors
as of

12/16/2025
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Anne Lloyd
CHAIR-ELECT
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Charles Inman
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Darlene Powell
DIRECTOR
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David Kochman
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DIRECTOR
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Greg Bromberger
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James Kissinger
DIRECTOR
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La Verne Reid
DIRECTOR
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Louise Winstanly
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DIRECTOR
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DIRECTOR
Attorney & Public Policy Consultant
Tim Tripp
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Travis Hockaday
Smith Anderson
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