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Greensboro Community Meals

Volunteer-hosted meals Tuesdays each week. All welcome! Join us and spread the word. Please view the Sign Up Sheet for the latest schedule of meals and to join in the fun!

Tuesdays 5:30-6:30pm

Current Location: GUCC Fellowship Hall

If you are interested in volunteering or donating ingredients, please contact GreensboroCommunityMeal@gmail.com.

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People dining at long tables with checkered tablecloths in a wood-paneled room, with children, adults, and elderly individuals having a meal.

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People serving themselves food at a buffet table with salads and other dishes in a room with wooden walls and a bulletin board.

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Five women preparing food in a cozy kitchen with wooden cabinets and a window with curtains, on a large kitchen island with various vegetables and ingredients.

People gathered in a wooden room for a communal meal, with some serving food and others seated at tables.

A group of community volunteers, began offering weekly, free, community meals in Greensboro on Tuesday evenings starting after Memorial Day. Each meal about 50-100 individuals attend, with approximately 7-15 volunteers helping each week to coordinate menus, shop for ingredients or secure food donations, prep and cook meals, set up, and clean up. THIS MEAL IS FREE and ALL ARE WELCOME. Donations have been graciously accepted as we continue to find ways to make this program sustainable.

Many hands and minds make light work! And it takes a whole community to pull off community meals. For the first 5 weeks, meals were initially hosted at the Lakeview Union School gym through the end of the school year. The school then closed to construction for the summer for its pre-school classroom conversion. For the final week of June, our community meal was hosted on Greensboro’s Town Hall Green - a hot but wonderful evening for an outdoor meal. After a brief hiatus for the July 4th holiday (during which the Funky Fourth festivities offered a free community meal on the Town Hall Green post-parade).

Meals have since resumed at GUCC’s Fellowship Hall, where we are continuing to host Tuesdays at 5:30-6:30pm.

In Winter/Spring 2025, our GA Board President, Naomi Ranz-Schleifer worked with Sterling College’s Food Ethics Class and Instructor, Liz Chadwick, to develop a plan for community meals in Greensboro. Utilizing their experience hosting weekly community meals throughout the school year at Sterling College, combined with learnings from their class, Sterling students presented a proposal to a handful of members from the Greensboro Association Board, and then based on additional feedback submitted a written report.

The Greensboro Association Grants Committee committed seed funding from the Community Relief Fund to support the start of the program and support food security and vital community connections within our community. Community members have been extremely generous in supporting the community meals and other funding sources are being explored. This July, proceeds from the Caspian Challenge race were directed to the community meal program. Thanks to all who participated!

Tuesdays were chosen as a weekly meal date as community meals are currently offered in the surrounding area more frequently on other week days. On Mondays and Thursdays at the Barton Hub with support from NEKO and the CAE, Wednesdays at the Civic Standard in Hardwick, Mondays seasonally at Atkins Field in Hardwick with CAE, and Sterling College on Fridays (now operating Monthly). Additional monthly meals are scheduled as well, primarily on Mondays and Wednesdays.

While the effort is still very much in its infancy, we look forward to finding ways to keep this meal going consistently as it has been a wonderfully joyous occasion each week, with neighbors from near and far, year-round and seasonal, and folks of all ages connecting, sharing food and ideas, and creating a wonderful sense of community. A huge thank you to all who come out each week!