House of Manna currently delivers its secular food-access, youth-education, and community-service programs from a shared-use church facility in Baltimore. House of Manna does not represent the facility as nonprofit-owned; this project is specifically designed to improve the areas, equipment, and infrastructure necessary for House of Manna’s charitable programming.

Current facility priorities include roof repair and leak remediation, damaged drop-ceiling repair, additional electrical outlets and electrical capacity, plumbing improvements, refrigeration and cold-storage capacity, food-safe shelving and storage, and improvements to rooms used for education, food distribution, supplies, and community programming.

House of Manna has also begun creating additional rooms and storage areas within the facility. Funding would help professionally complete framing, walls, finishes, storage systems, classroom areas, and other improvements needed to make these spaces safe, functional, and appropriate for community use.

The project also seeks to transform the currently underutilized rear outdoor area into a functional Community Food & Gathering Courtyard. Potential improvements include clearing weeds and overgrowth, improving the ground surface, paving or resurfacing appropriate areas, adding grass or landscaping where feasible, improving lighting and electrical access, creating seating and gathering areas, and establishing a safe outdoor food-preparation area.

The outdoor space would expand House of Manna’s limited indoor capacity and support food distributions, youth activities, volunteer events, family programming, and periodic community meal events. Once the food-access program develops a consistent base of participating families, House of Manna anticipates piloting community meal days where food may be safely prepared outdoors and distributed to families through the facility.

Additional project investments may include commercial refrigeration and freezer equipment, temperature monitoring, laptops and learning technology, charging and storage systems, tables, chairs, whiteboards, educational equipment, food-distribution equipment, and secure storage.

Community Facility, Food Access & Learning Infrastructure

Repairing, equipping, and expanding the shared-use facility House of Manna operates from — so it can safely support food distribution, education, and community programming.