We drop off a green bag. You fill it with a few extra groceries whenever you shop. Our volunteers pick it up right from your doorstep. No fundraisers, no meetings — just neighbors quietly feeding neighbors across Forsyth County.
A Simple Gesture is built on one belief — that hunger in our own neighborhoods can be solved by the neighbors who live in them. No galas. No pressure. Just a green bag, a grocery run, and a porch.
Every item collected stays right here in Forsyth County. Our volunteers sort each donation and deliver it straight into our partner pantry network, so the food you buy on Tuesday can be on a neighbor's table by the weekend.
Turn everyday grocery trips into a steady, dignified food supply for local families.
A Forsyth County where no neighbor goes to bed hungry and no good food is wasted.
Scan a QR code or send us a message to join the program.
A volunteer drops a green bag right at your door.
Add a few extra non-perishables each time you shop.
Leave it on the porch on collection day. We take it from there.
These are the programs running in Forsyth County right now. Scan the QR code on either card to sign up — households, businesses, and volunteers are all welcome.
Program 01
We rescue surplus, still-good food from grocery partners, retailers, restaurants, and event caterers before it hits the dumpster — then get it into the hands of families the same day. Good food, saved from the landfill, on a table where it matters.
Program 02
A turnkey food drive built for workplaces. We bring the green bags, the signage, and the volunteers to your office, bank, salon, or job site. Your team fills the bags on their own schedule, we collect on the agreed date, and you get a report of the impact your company made.
More programs are on the way. Food Recovery and Specialty Corporate Green Bag Food Drives are the programs running at this time.
Sorted by volunteers. Delivered locally. Nothing good goes to waste.
Ways To Support UsOur pantry partnership with Catholic Charities is where a collected bag becomes a meal. Donations gathered from neighborhoods and corporate drives across Forsyth County are sorted by our volunteers and stocked directly onto the shelves families shop from.
Catholic Charities also hosts our satellite office, keeping our operations right next to the community we serve.
Leadership, board members, and volunteers giving their time so Forsyth County families don't go without.
Founder & Executive Director
A Simple Gesture — Forsyth County
Co-Founder
A Simple Gesture — Forsyth County
Board Member & Sponsor
Loc'd Empire
Board Member & Sponsor
Alston Person Care
Board Member
Board Member
Volunteer
Volunteer
Volunteer
Our advisory team is the entire team of A Simple Gesture Guilford County — the group whose model, mentorship, and hard-won experience made Forsyth County possible.
Businesses, banks, and community organizations standing behind Forsyth County families.
Sponsorship keeps bags, fuel, and storage funded — and puts your name in front of a community that notices who shows up.
Pick the one that fits your life. Every single one of them puts food on a table in Forsyth County.
Sign up your household and fill a bag between pickups.
Bring the green bag drive to your workplace or team.
Collect bags on route days or move recovered food.
Join a sorting shift at our Catholic Charities pantry.
Fund bags, fuel, and storage — or sponsor a whole route.
Share our QR code with your street, church, or salon.
486 N. Patterson Ave, Suite 271
Winston Salem, NC 27101
Catholic Charities
c/o A Simple Gesture Forsyth County
Winston Salem, NC
Catholic Charities
14th Street
Winston Salem, NC
