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About Ballantyne Families Helping Neighbors in Need

Ballantyne Families Helping Neighbors in Need (BFHNIN) is a grassroots, 501c3 organization that was born out of COVID when schools shut down. Concerned for children who depend on school breakfast and lunch, one local mom led a few food drives. This led to a realization that there was a large need for food assistance and that many in our community were willing, able, and energized to give. Since 2020, we have grown and expanded to help more Ballantyne families facing food insecurity, by providing support at Thanksgiving, Winter holidays, Spring Break, and Summer with bags of food, grocery gift cards, encouraging notes from the community, and opened our first food pantry at Community House Middle School. All of the families who we support either work or attend one of the 11 public schools in the Ballantyne area and are identified by the school counselors/social worker. To date, we have given support to over 13,000 people by providing over 4,400 bags of groceries, $350,000 in grocery gift cards and 1000s of encouraging notes from the community.