Manna on Main Street

WHAT IS NEEDED AT MANNA? As demand for food continues to increase in our community, Manna is in need of some specific food donations. Please consider contributing in any way you can. Thank you! ? Sugared cereal ? Canned tuna ? Pasta sauce ? Tomato Products (diced, crushed, whole, paste, etc) If you can donate these items, please drop them off 9am-5pm weekdays at Manna’s Online Market Hub at 10 N. Cannon Ave., Lansdale, PA 19446. On Saturdays and Sundays, you can drop off 10am-2pm at Manna’s main facility at 606 E. Main St., Lansdale, PA 19446. If you prefer to order items online, you can have them shipped to: Manna on Main Street, 606 E. Main St., Lansdale, PA 19446. See this link for a list of all of Manna's food donation needs: https://lnkd.in/gQYXrdz Thank you! #EndHunger #Community #NorthPenn

Another successful year of packing beans and rice at Congregation Beth Or in Maple Glen as part of their event called Matanot L'evyonim: Purim Packing Project. Approximately 100 people of all ages, including Rabbi Jason Bonder, packed rice and beans in household-sized bags for Manna’s Market, providing over 2,500 pounds of food for our neighbors who shop in our Market. We are grateful for this annual tradition, and for the entire Beth Or community for purchasing and packing these bags for Manna and those we serve!

We love our volunteers at Manna, which includes both individuals and groups. Check out the groups we've hosted in the past several weeks: -Accupac -Calvary Baptist HS -Christ United Methodist Church -Darchei Noam -Lansdale Catholic HS -LaSalle College HS -Manheim -Mater Dei -National Charity League – Central Bucks -SEI -Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Pi Chi Chapter, Ursinus College We also want to give a special shoutout to Wegmans – North Wales store associates who helped raise funds for Manna through their annual Check Out Hunger campaign! Thank you to all of our volunteers for supporting Manna and those we serve together! #EndHunger #Volunteering #Community

We have some tough news: Giving to Manna in Quarter 1 of this fiscal year has left a fundraising gap of about $57,000 compared to last year. This drop in monetary contributions coincides with a continued rise in demand for food from Manna. Can you give today to help us close the gap? https://lnkd.in/errSm4XX Times are tough for many of us right now. It’s especially difficult for our neighbors who rely on Manna for food and other critical services. Manna's Kitchen is serving 25% more meals than one year ago. In fact, we've broken our record for monthly meals served twice in the past five months. Most days we provide 400-500 meals to people in need. That doesn't even include the additional 700 meals per day we prepare for Meals on Wheels serving local seniors. Meanwhile, Manna's Market recently set a new record for the number of households served in a month at 906 households. That's an 11% in households served from one year ago. A key component of this increase is Manna's Online Market Hub ("the Hub"), which opened in September. We're currently serving about 100 more households than we were a year ago with online orders of groceries because of the expanded capacity that the Hub provides. We're well on our way to setting new annual records — for the third year in a row — for meals served in Manna's Kitchen and households served in Manna's Market. We need your help to ensure Manna continues meeting the critical needs of our neighbors in the North Penn region, and so we don't have to scale back our plans for program improvements and expansion in 2025. Give to Manna today to ensure our neighbors facing hunger have enough to eat and receive the services and support they need to not just survive but to thrive. Thank you for caring. https://lnkd.in/errSm4XX #EndHunger #NorthPenn #Community

Join us Thursday in Lansdale! Legal Aid of Southeastern PA (LASP) will hold a free monthly outreach at Manna on Main Street / North Penn Commons, 606 E. Main St., Lansdale, PA 19446. Stop by our table from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 27, March 27, April 24, May 22, & June 26, 2025. Have a question about the outreach? Contact Charles Burrows at 484-209-0885 or [email protected]. Se habla espa?ol. Language access & interpretation available for 240+ other languages. Some of the case types LASP handles: Bankruptcy, consumer law & debt relief, child custody & dependency, domestic violence / Protection from Abuse orders (PFAs), elder law, expungement, record-sealing and pardons, family law, housing (landlord-tenant, eviction, habitability, public & subsidized housing, rent-to-own), and home ownership (mortgage foreclosure, property tax sales, reverse mortgages, tangled title), Hurricane Ida / disaster legal aid, public benefits [Unemployment Compensation, SSI, SSDI, TANF (cash assistance), SNAP (food stamps), Medical Assistance (Medicaid) & more], utility problems, Veterans benefits & discharge upgrades.

Have you tried the new breakfast sandwich at Manna's Common Grounds Café? Served on a fresh-baked croissant with fried eggs, spinach and melted cheese, with your choice of bacon or turkey sausage, this sandwich will give you all the energy you need for the day ahead. Sandwiches start at $5. To order yours, visit us Monday through Friday, 9am to 1pm, at 606 E. Main St. in Lansdale. #Breakfast #Cafe #MontcoPA

Manna’ Common Grounds team has done a little redecorating in their office suite and couldn’t be happier with the results! We love seeing all of our trainees have space to sit down to enjoy lunch together and talk about their mornings in kitchen production and the café. By enrolling our trainees in cohorts rather than individually, the relationships they form with their colleagues, and the support they provide each other, become important parts of their training. We are currently accepting applications for our next cohort of our Common Grounds Training Program, which starts Monday, March 17. Call or text Sue to apply:?215-353-3727. #CatalystKitchens #WorkforceDevelopment #FoodService

**JOB OPENING** The North Penn Commons Welcome Team Associate position is the face of North Penn Commons to all who enter the lobby. North Penn Commons is a pioneering project and vibrant center that co-locates services from four respected nonprofit partners: Manna on Main Street, Advanced Living Communities, Lansdale Area Family YMCA, and The PEAK Center. The position’s primary responsibilities are to welcome and help guests of North Penn Commons access the services and organizations that they are looking for; monitor the lobby for any behavior that is unsafe, disruptive or not in keeping with the purpose of the lobby as an area for people accessing services; respond to any problems or incidents whether with individuals or the facility and alert the proper person or agency. They are also responsible for maintaining the cleanliness and organization of the Welcome Center and adjoining areas in the lobby. Learn more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/evbzQwzY

Manna on Main Street serves our neighbors with the hope “that everyone might be fed.”?We are sustained through our community and, every year, we get to celebrate all we have accomplished with our community at our Race to End Hunger. In this spirit of community, we are so excited to announce that this year, all individuals who get 5 or more people to donate towards the Race to End Hunger will receive a coupon for a medium drink from our Common Grounds Café and $25 off a catering order. Plus, these great individual fundraising prizes! Race Day is Saturday, April 5th at Knapp Elementary School in Lansdale. All proceeds benefit Manna on Main Street. Don’t forget to share this and invite your friends! (Link in Comments.)

The first cohort of 2025 began on January 6, and we’re thrilled to welcome EIGHT new trainees into Manna’s Common Grounds Training Program family! In two short weeks our trainees have learned about food safety, knife skills, kitchen equipment, customer service and so much more! They’ve started their weekly one-on-ones with Assistant Director Sue to discuss their goals and how to achieve them, and next week they’ll start meeting with Chef Lou to talk about their plans for employment after they graduate. Do you know someone who would benefit from our FREE foodservice training program? Cohort 43 begins Monday, March 17. Text or call Sue at 215-353-3727 to learn more! #CatalystKitchens #Community #JobTraining