A Simple Gesture Greensboro Operates Green Bag Food Recovery and SHARE Programs

A Simple Gesture — Greensboro operates three distinct programs aimed at ending hunger in Guilford County, North Carolina, according to the organization’s public profile. The Candid listing identifies the legal name as A SIMPLE GESTURE GREENSBORO INC and states, "A Simple Gesture- Greensboro engages the community to end hunger in Guilford County, NC." The profile was last updated 01/17/2026, and lists the three program pillars as Green Bag Food Donor, Food Recovery, and SHARE school refrigerators.

The Green Bag Food Donor program is run locally with Maria Purcell listed as Director, Green Bag Program on the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce member entry. Candid describes the program mechanics: "individual donors fill a reusable green grocery bag with donated nonperishable food. On a designated Saturday of the month, donors leave their filled bag on their porch and a volunteer picks it up and delivers it directly to one of our food pantry partners." The Chamber directory lists A Simple Gesture’s physical address as 3503 Redington Dr., Greensboro, providing a local point of contact in the city membership roster.

A Simple Gesture’s Food Recovery program focuses on redirecting surplus from the food industry. The Candid profile explains that "food industry businesses (grocery stores and restaurants) donate their wholesome surplus food to our vetted nonprofits serving meals to the community." That description positions the chapter as a bridge between commercial donors and community meal programs, though the public entries do not provide partner names or tonnage figures for recovered food.

SHARE is framed as a school-based recovery effort: Candid calls it "a food recovery program in our public schools in which unopened leftover food from the School Nutrition Prgm is shared with all students." The program description ties the chapter’s work directly to school nutrition operations in Guilford County, but the Chamber and Candid excerpts do not list the number of participating schools or the schedule for SHARE refrigerators.

The Greensboro Chamber of Commerce member page lists Leslie Loyd as President for the local chapter and features the Chamber’s branding in green and dark gray alongside the tagline "We know and grow Greensboro." The Chamber page also shows its own contact details, including phone 336.387.8301 and address 111 W. February One Place, Greensboro, NC 27401, and displays a Circle of Champions roster that names corporate members such as Allegacy, Cone Health, Atrium Health Wake Forest, Duke Energy, Lincoln Financial Group, P&G, TOYOTA NC, TRUIST, and others.

With public listings on both Candid and the Greensboro Chamber and a program set that includes porch pickup, commercial surplus recovery, and school SHARE refrigerators, A Simple Gesture — Greensboro presents a three-pronged, community-facing model for addressing food insecurity in Guilford County as of its January 17, 2026 profile update.