Interested in starting a Brown Bag Ministry site in your community? Here’s what you need:

A Market

Identify one or more groups in your community that are underserved and could benefit from additional meals

A Food Supply

Secure food for your brown bag lunches (we can help supply you through our partnership with the Food Bank of Eastern and Central North Carolina)

A Volunteer Base

Recruit others in your community to help you pack bags on Saturday mornings

A Place to Work

Find somewhere—a church fellowship hall, a community center, a friend’s house—where you can meet to pack lunches

Brown Bag Ministry began with just one site, two volunteers, and 100 brown bag lunches a month. Since then, it’s expanded to five sites, added thousands of volunteers, and prepares more than 12,000 lunches every month. All it takes is the right ingredients and a desire to serve neighbors in need.

If you’d like to help the hungry in your own corner of the Triangle area, learn more about starting a site by connecting with us via email or toll-free at 844-538-4673.