Lowcountry Food Bank prepared for Thanksgiving holiday season [Video]

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – The Lowcountry Food Bank is thanking their donors, volunteers and community pantry partners for the work they’ve done ahead of Thanksgiving.

Brenda Shaw is the Chief Development Officer at Lowcountry Food Bank. She says the food bank has been blessed with a few major donations recently, including a $115,000 check from Hendricks Auto and $30,000 with the first-ever Richard Hendry Nonprofit Impact Award from the Coastal Community Foundation.

“We’re very similar to other nonprofit organizations, where we get about 50% of our income in the last quarter of the year,” Shaw says. “And so, you know, we have an amazingly generous community, and so we are seeing an uptick in gifts this time of year.”

She says the food bank sees an uptick in groups asking to volunteer toward the end of the year as well, and they are pretty much set through the holiday …