Posts by Chelsea Gillespie

Thanks to Mountain Xpress and the Give!Local initiative of 2025, our community worked together to raise $14,180 which will nourish 405 of our WNC neighbors! Every dollar raised goes toward…

We’re incredibly grateful to share that Food Lion Feeds Charitable Foundation has awarded our organization a $4,300 Feeding the Hungry Grant! This generous support will help us provide nutritious food…

Bounty & Soul received a transformative delivery of 6,000 pounds of surplus produce through the r4 Smart Food Program partnership with Sharing Excess, expanding emergency food aid to Western North Carolina at a time when many families continue to face uncertainty around SNAP benefits and the lingering impacts of Hurricane Helene.

We are deeply grateful to PBS for highlighting Asheville and Bounty & Soul’s work in the recent episode of Hometowns. This episode brought attention to the defining and often difficult…