Life sometimes has a funny way of taking you in directions you wouldn’t have necessarily gone on your own. Sally Green probably didn’t picture herself running a soup kitchen, much less turning that meal program into a multipronged, established Greenville-area nonprofit. But her teaching background and her family passion for food and entertaining combined with unforeseen life circumstances all came together in a way that did exactly that.
Read MoreOften when a nonprofit endures and grows, it’s because of more than just the fact that there is a need in the community. It takes a special person or group of people to keep the momentum going and move an organization forward. For Project Host, that person was longtime director Jody Fails, who began her oversight of the Soup Kitchen in 1986.
Read MoreIt all began in 1978 with a troubling observation. Mary Moore Roberson, a Christ Church parishioner, watched as people pulled food that had been discarded by Christ Church Episcopal School students out of a dumpster.
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