• Men's Residential Facility: 36 beds and 14 permanent floor spaces, 365 days a year. Please call for information.
• Community House provided 17,757 nights of safe shelter for 386men in fiscal year 2010-11.
• The Community Kitchen and Robert Nixon Free Clinic for the Homeless are located here.
• Other services include job coaching, social work, community resource referrals, partner agency projects, laundry and postal services.
• Space and utilities donated by the Town of Chapel Hill.

  Community Kitchen
  Contact: Donna Bradley 967-0643, Ext. 15 kitchen@ifcmailbox.org

• Food From the Community, For the Community: Anyone who is hungry can eat.
• Meal Times:
  Breakfast-6:15-7am
  Lunch-11:15am-12:30pm (one hour later on Sunday)
  Dinner-6:15-7pm (one hour later on Sunday)
• 78,566 meals served in fiscal year 2010-11.
• More than 500 volunteers are involved.
• More than $522,193 in donated food contributed by businesses and individuals.

Robert Nixon Free Clinic for the Homeless
Contact: Laurie Tucker 967-0643 Ext. 12 housingdirector@ifcmailbox.org

HomeStart
2505 Homestead Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Phone: (919) 932-6025
Fax: (919) 929-8649
Residential Services Director: Laurie Tucker        housingdirector@ifcmailbox.org

• Provide emergency, short and longer-term services to 50 homeless women and children at a time. Please call for information.
• 70 women and 48 children received 14,965 nights of safe shelter at HomeStart in fiscal year 2010-11.
• Designed for greater resident participation in planning services and managing meals.
• Enhanced by community partnerships for specialized/expert services.
• Land provided by Orange County.

Smart Start Transitional Social Worker
Sharon Sharpe (919) 932-6025, ext. 11
ssharpe@ifcmailbox.org

Community Services and Food Pantry
110 W. Main St., Carrboro, NC 27510
Phone: (919) 929-6380
Fax: (919) 929-3353
Community Services Director: Kristin Lavergne (919) 929-6380, Ext. 41 servicesdirector@ifcmailbox.org

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• Provide financial assistance, groceries, and clothing vouchers to individuals and families in need.
• Assist individuals with information about community resources.
• Non-Financial requests (groceries, clothing, IDs, etc.) are handled on a "first come first served" basis between 9am-11:30am Monday-Friday until all available slots are full, and on an appointment basis between 4pm-7pm on most Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
• Financial requests (rent and utilities) are handled on an appointment basis from 1pm-4pm, Monday-Friday. Please call for information.
• 17,278bags of groceries and 823 holiday meals were distributed in fiscal year 2010-11.
• 3,369 local households were eligible to receive monthly groceries at the end of June 2011.
• 6,525 interviews were conducted for help with food, rent, utilities, clothing, IDs, referrals, etc.
• Crisis Unit distributed over $99,111 to 804households to prevent homelessness.
• IFC Administration is located here.
• Building shared with other non-profits: El Futuro, People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, Building Futures/JOCCA

  

  Hispanic Outreach Initiative at Community Services Building
  Contact: Juan Tuset
  929-6380 Ext. 25 or hispanic@ifcmailbox.org
  (para hispanohablantes)

• Helps Spanish-speaking clients access community services.
• Hispanic Coordinator is an Americorps member.
• Assisted 1,589 Spanish-speaking clients in fiscal year 2009-10.

IFC Administration

Contact:

Chris Moran, Executive Director
929-6380, Ext. 26 or executive@ifcmailbox.org

John Dorward, Associate Director
929-6380, Ext. 14 or finance@ifcmailbox.org

Allan Rosen, Project Manager
929-6380, Ext. 27 or project@ifcmailbox.org

Elizabeth Garfunkel, Executive Assistant
929-6380, Ext. 15 or assistant@ifcmailbox.org

IFC Board

See the complete list of IFC Board members here.