A popular Carrboro food initiative’s efforts to raise money for community members in need paid off this past month.

Carrboro United partnered with the El Centro Hispano organization to distribute one week’s worth of groceries to more than 300 families in the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood community and others connected to the Latinx non-profit.

According to a recent release, Carrboro United and Acme To-Go raised more than $15,000 through their ‘Pay It Forward’ menu items since the food hub was launched in late March. The group then purchased fresh groceries and Carrboro United crew members spent two days boxing the food to be delivered to or picked up by the community.

“The Carrboro United model was built on the idea that change happens at the community level,” the organization said in the release, “and our very own community has proven that through their generosity, tenacity and spirit.”

Carrboro United was established after Carrboro’s Acme Food & Beverage Company’s Zoe Dehmer teamed up with former Fleet Feet CEO Tom Raynor to aid local restaurants amid the start of the COVID-19 outbreak. Restaurants originally shuttered to dine-in customers can have meals shared through the Carrboro United menu and community members order them for pick-up. The food initiative has pick-up days three times a week at Carrboro High School.

To learn more about food hub days and its menu, visit the Carrboro United website.

Photo via The Splinter Group.

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