Main St Mission's food-pantry-manager

Who Are We?

Main Street Mission is food pantry in China Grove, North Carolina, USA. The mission provides food and other donated items to members of the community in need. This project aims to create an inventory and volunteer tracking system for use in food pantries and food banks. There are not any good options for software for the small non-profits that run these pantries. This project will create a software system tailored to the needs of Main Street Mission and other food pantries.

You can read a bit more about the mission and this project in Tom's History of Main St. Mission's Food Pantry Manager.

Why Should You Help?

The mission provides food for about 250 families each month. About 200 children are given school supplies each August. The mission also provides meals for families on holidays. This is only one food pantry in the US. In 2011 6.1 million households (5.1%) accessed emergency food at a pantry in the US. Contributing to this project gives you an opportunity to help this organization and the people it serves. Are you trying to learn Ruby on Rails? Great, we would love to help you learn and it gives you an excellent example to add to your resume/cv while contributing to a project that helps people.

Contributing

See the Contribution Guidelines.

Talk to us

[Pair program with me!](mailto:tom.brooke@gmail.com?subject=Pairing on LocalSupport)

We have a google group mailing list. Feel free to ask us questions there, or report a problem with an issue here on github. If you have a problem with anything not code related, then send us a message on the mailing list and we'll do the best we can to help you out.