Project Host continues to expand as needs grow and evolve

A week before the 10th annual Project Host barbecue fundraiser April 26-27, executive director Sally Green was busy tracking down enough cotton candy for the weekend’s festivities.

“We used to make it, and it always rained, or the children who were making it would end up wearing it,” she says.

She ran around from BI-LO to Ingles before finding a wholesale location that could sell the premade version to them cheaply.

“So we can make some money,” she says.

As an executive director of a nonprofit that relies on donations to feed as many as 650 food-insecure adults and children a day, the making-money part of the equation is a priority, and no task required of her to accomplish that is too menial.

And it’s a good thing. Project Host, 525 S. Academy St., Greenville, encompasses an active soup kitchen and evening meal program, the CC Pearce Culinary School, garden and greenhouse, bakery, Cooking for Kids, various other food outreach partnerships, and just this week added a fully operational food truck that will serve as a mobile soup kitchen and revenue generator.

Read the full article in the Greenville Journal.