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Canned Food

Stock the Shelves Food Drive

🥫Most Needed Items

  • Cereal

  • Rice

  • Canned beans

  • Canned collards

  • Canned carrots

  • Pasta

  • Pasta sauce

  • Adobo seasoning*

  • Cornmeal*

  • Sweetened condensed milk*

  • Canned hominy*

*Hispanic Heritage Month Items

🚗 Drop Off Locations!

  • THRIVE Peninsula

  • City Hall

  • Semi-It Market

  • Downing Gross

  • Denbigh Community Center

  • Courthouse Way Community Center

  • Community Risk Reduction Building

  • City Center Office

  • Brittingham-Midtown Community Center

  • Police HQ

  • Fire Admin

  • Main Street Library

  • Grissom Library

  • Pearl Bailey Library

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🧺 Host a Food Drive 

Help us keep The Market stocked and thriving by hosting a food drive! Whether you're a business, civic group, school, or faith community, your food drive will directly support families in need. Contact Us to get started.

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✨ FUN Facts about The Market at THRIVE

This year, our free grocery store will serve 35,000 food insecure people across the Peninsula. 70% of all recipients live in the City of Newport News. The Market is open 6-days per week and offers flexible pickup food lockers to be accessible to everyone.
 

  • ​The Market at THRIVE launched in November 2023 as the area’s first free grocery store, in partnership with Food Lion

  • THRIVE distributes 1,100 boxes of cereal each month

  • Food is supplied by donors, grocery store partners (mainly Food Lion), the Virginia Peninsula Foodbank, corporate groups, civic groups, and through THRIVE purchasing

  • Shoppers are most excited to find fresh items like ground beef and fresh eggs in The Market

  • More than 16,000 volunteer hours are dedicated to running The Market and food delivery each year

  • The Garden at THRIVE grows about 800 pounds of produce annually, which is distributed through The Market

  • The average shopper visits The Market 3x’s or less during a year

  • Any given day, 18% of shoppers are at The Market are there for the first time.

  • Families can shop for us to 6 days’ worth of food at any visit

  • All shopping takes place by appointment only.

  • THRIVE operates a satellite pantry in partnership with SafeHaven Empowerment Center in Denbigh, held every Thursday.

  • For Hispanic Heritage Month, THRIVE will launch a Hispanic Section of The Market which will host culturally appropriate foods. We ask the community to donate items to help us keep it stocked year-round.

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