Alliance Awards 13 Community Impact Sponsorships

Alliance Health recently provided over $75,000 in one-time community impact sponsorships to support community health initiatives across the counties served by the Alliance Health Plan. The 13 organizations receiving sponsorships all focus on improving food security and access to healthy food and nutrition education, and include local shelters, mobile markets, food banks/hubs, and neighborhood pantries that provide local food assistance.

“Alliance is proud to partner with these organizations in their critical work to combat food insecurity in the communities we serve,” said Ann Oshel, SVP, Community Health and Well-Being at Alliance. “It’s part of our long-standing commitment to addressing the social factors that have a huge impact on people’s health, longevity, and quality of life.

Recipients of Alliance sponsorships are:

Believers United for Progress addresses food insecurity while strengthening community ties through partnerships with local groups and grocery recovery programs that help reduce food waste.

Champion House of Care Project One provides food, clothing and education to families in need, while also offering vocational training and community involvement opportunities to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Community Health Coalition seeks to eliminate food insecurity through strategic partnerships with local farmers and the regional food bank aimed at ensuring reliable access to fresh, high-quality, and nutritious food.

Families Forward Charlotte works to make sure kids have meals when school is closed through volunteers who put together food bags and deliver them to partner Title I schools in Charlotte-Mecklenburg for distribution to students in need.

Feeding Charlotte helps fight hunger and cut down on food waste by collecting extra fresh meals from places like restaurants, caterers, hospitals and other institutions and delivering it to local nonprofits that serve people who don’t have enough to eat.

Parktown Food Hub (“the Hub”) is a community pantry that distributes food three Mondays each month by appointment and hosts an open distribution on the fourth Thursday, providing boxes filled with shelf‑stable goods and fresh produce.

Ripe for Revival offers a mobile market targeting “food deserts,” manages community gardens, provides health and nutrition education, and organizes culinary and cooking demonstrations and classes.

Second Harvest Food Bank of the Metrolina offers a school-based mobile pantry program that helps ensure that children have enough nutritious food by providing on-site food shopping for low-income families, including staple goods, produce, meat, eggs, whole grain breads and essential non-food items like toilet paper and diapers.

Second Harvest Food Bank of Southeast NC provides food to over 260 agencies such as food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, and other programs that serve children and adults, and partners with local schools and organizations to offer a children’s backpack program.

Street Reach of Johnston County operates a resource center providing hot meals, showers, clothing, hygiene supplies, laundry services, and referrals for additional services such as housing.

The Bulb Gallery (FreshBulb) is a community-led nonprofit that combats food insecurity through mobile farmers’ markets by partnering with local farms and grocery stores to bring fresh, nutritious produce directly to underserved neighborhoods.

The Salvation Army of Greater Charlotte provides critical services to families and individuals in need, including homelessness support, youth programs, emergency disaster relief, and seasonal assistance, and operates a shelter offering emergency housing, meals, case management, and transitional support for women and children.

Zealous Empowering Nurturer focuses on food justice and health equity with a mobile market pantry program that provides fresh produce and meal kits directly to underserved neighborhoods, removing barriers to healthy eating.

Beyond these sponsorships, Alliance staff assembled more than 1,600 resource bags filled with hygiene essentials, gloves, socks, a hat, a thermal blanket, handwarmers and lip balm. The bags were delivered to resource centers and white flag shelters throughout our communities.