As you may recall, we announced in September that Kids in Need Distributors is merging with the Manna Food Center in Montgomery County, Md. Manna is a premier organization striving to end hunger in our community. By combining forces, we will be able to provide weekend food and gift cards to ever-more schoolkids throughout the school year.

The merger becomes effective today.

Clearly, some things will change. The KIND website, donation page, and social media feeds will be shutting down immediately. The communications you receive about deliveries, donations, and events will now come to you from a mannafood.org address, and Manna will be establishing new social media feeds.

If you wish to give to KIND at year’s end, please go to Manna’s donation page. Any donation checks that have already been sent to KIND will be forwarded. Please rest assured that any contributions KIND has accumulated will be transferred and go directly toward food. 

Importantly, some things will not change. We will continue with our accustomed delivery schedule every six weeks, from the same Costco store. For the remainder of the current school year, Mark Epstein and I will be on hand to coordinate. We need you as much as ever.

KIND did much good work, which is a testament to our donors and volunteers. For that I will be forever grateful.

Jeremy Lichtenstein

Founder

Kids in Need Distributors