by Tori Keafer | Nov 16, 2022 | Columns, General
This Thanksgiving season, we want to give a special thank-you to our volunteers. Volunteers, we cannot even express the immensity of our gratitude for you. As a nonprofit, we run as lean and efficiently as possible, and that means that our small staff wears a lot of...
by Chris Whitney | Nov 1, 2022 | Columns, General
Chris Whitney is the founder and CEO of One Generation Away. Amid food shortages and escalating costs, 2022 has been a year of growth and a year of challenges. But one thing remains constant: Because of your generosity in serving and giving, millions of meals found...
by Tori Keafer | Oct 10, 2022 | Events, General, News
Five local businesses are banding together in partnership with OneGenAway to support their neighbors facing food insecurity. Bishop’s Meat & Three, the Franklin Visitor Center, Hattie B’s Hot Chicken, Row House, and Sanctuary South are each holding a canned food...
by Tori Keafer | Oct 10, 2022 | Columns, General
Did you know that 1 in 2 Americans don’t have access to public transportation, and 1 in 12 don’t own a car? Imagine trying to get the food you need to live a healthy lifestyle without any way to get to a grocery store. This is the reality so many in our communities...
by Tori Keafer | Oct 5, 2022 | General, Stories
Mr. Richard was one of the first Dashers to pick up and deliver bags of food for The Doorstep Pantry, but that wasn’t the beginning of his relationship with OneGenAway. Mr. Richard has been volunteering with OneGenAway since 2018 when a friend called him up and asked...
by Tori Keafer | Oct 3, 2022 | General, Stories
The first food bag deliveries from The Doorstep Pantry went out in an unexpected rainstorm. It was not the way we’d hoped to start beta-testing this new program, and after all the bags had gone out and the clouds burst with a solid 20 minutes of heavy rain, we worried...
