• Community Support

  • If you represent a local non-profit agency, we wish to thank you for helping our community. There are over 800 non-profit organizations in Western North Carolina and AIR one of them as a 501(6)c non-profit. We welcome your donations to our Foundation which supports culinary education. Specifically, the AIR Foundation raises funds for culinary scholarships for the AB Tech culinary students.

    AIR does not assist non-profit organizations to solicit donations or free food from its member restaurants; however, we do provide guidance to assist in gathering competitive catering quotes, as described below.

    AIR is committed to encouraging its member restaurants to support non-profit organizations who directly effect our industry. We do this by working with our non-profit community partners who share our mission. These partners include the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) and Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College.

  • Food Related Fundraisers

  • America’s love affair with food is still in the honeymoon stage and ‘feeding people’ has become a favorite way to raise money for non-profit organizations. Asheville non-profits have used soirees and drawings as fundraising vehicles for years, asking restaurants to sponsor the food. But as the requests for food donations reaches an all time high, the ability for restaurants to provide free food is becoming more difficult. In fact, it’s become almost impossible.

    AIR recommends that local non-profits request catering quotes from individual local restaurants for their events and then find non-restaurant businesses to sponsor the catering expense.

  • Tools You Can Use – or not….

  • We would like to offer non-profit organizations some of the tools to assist with this process.

    If you would like an AIR restaurant to cater your next fundraiser, please send the details to Catering request

    Plan Overview:
    Please click here to view the Fund Raising with Food Model.

    Request for Quote Form:
    Restaurants can provide a more accurate quote if you supply them with the information on this RFQ form Request For a Quote for food trays. Send this completed form to the Asheville independent restaurants of your choice for a catering quote.