PORCH is an all-volunteer hunger relief organization. We collect food and cash donations through monthly neighborhood food drives and deliver the contributions to food pantries who provide emergency food to individuals and families in our area.
PORCH is built around the simple idea of a neighborhood food drive. Here’s how it works:
Once a month, on collection day, leave your food donations on your front porch or at the designated front porch (or garage) in your neighborhood.
Volunteer Neighborhood Coordinators organize the collections, and then transport the donated food by car to one of our local food pantries.
If you don’t see your neighborhood listed, email us or complete our volunteer form, we would love to add you to our list!
Help us fight hunger one porch at a time in Onslow
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The Onslow PORCH for Pantries program will take any and all shelf stable/non-perishable food donations but the most request and used by our distribution partners are below:
Apple Sauce Crackers Canned Beans Canned Fish (Tuna and Salmon) Granola Bars Rice Canned Meat (SPAM and Ham) Pasta Canned Vegetables Canned Fruits
Contact us and we will let you know if there is a coordinator in your neighborhood or the location of the closest drop-off spot.
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DonatePORCH Smyrna is part of the PORCH Communities network.
PORCH Communities fights food insecurity by creating sustainable hunger relief programs at the local level. Started in 2010 in Chapel Hill, NC, PORCH has grown into a repeatable model of monthly neighborhood food drives and fresh produce distribution supplying food pantries, schools, and community programs across the country. PORCH’s volunteer network, now in 550 neighborhoods across 10 states, has contributed more than $12 million dollars in hunger relief.