“TABLE is a small but mighty organization,” said Tippins. “We deliver every week to over 700 kids — healthy non-perishables, local produce and fresh milk — and we also provide weekly nutrition lessons to our kids … The thing that’s so cool about it is that we are able to know the kids and families that we serve and that’s something that TABLE is actively working towards right now as well.”
TABLE provides healthy and nutritious emergency food aid to school-aged children, and Tippins has been working with the organization for over a decade, since she was volunteering as an undergraduate student at UNC. Now, volunteers are needed more than ever to keep TABLE going and the food deliveries going.
“For TABLE, we depend on 145 volunteers plus every single week to deliver our bags of food and provide our nutrition lessons,” said Tippins. “That’s a huge number of volunteers and we honestly could not do it. We couldn’t sort the food, package the food, deliver the food or execute the nutrition lessons without our volunteers.”
From now until April 3rd, community members are encouraged to bring non-perishable healthy food items to the office of 97.9 The Hill & Chapelboro.com as part of the “Fill the Bus” food drive. You can click here for more information about the drive, what items are needed, and how it benefits our community. Thank you to Cappy Hagman Real Estate Group for making Fill the Bus possible!
You can listen to Ali and Ashton’s full conversation below and check back next Wednesday for another introduction to some of the most amazing women in our community!
Join 97.9 The Hill’s Ali Evans every Wednesday for another edition of “Woman Crush Wednesday,” a three-minute weekly recurring segment made possible byMosaic Comprehensive Carethat highlights motivated women and their impact both in our community and beyond. If you’d like to nominate someone to be featured on WCW, email ali@wchl.com
This week, join 97.9 The Hill’s Ali Evans for a conversation with Ashton Tippins, the executive director at TABLE, a non-profit organization that provides hunger relief and nutrition education services to children living in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and neighboring Orange County communities.
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