Alone with three children amidst a divorce, an Ohio mom once forewent most of her own meals to feed her kids. She’d even been rejected by her local food bank, a hardship which would inspire her to start her own free grocery store 16 years later. In late 2020, mom Nicole Adkins started With God’s Grace out of a previously disused building in Northridge, Ohio. The store and mobile food pantry business offer relief nourishment for community members in need—without discrimination. They also offer job training and childcare to people who need it. Adkins’s philanthropic endeavor began in 2015, just after she and her children got in a better position; a local church needed help for Thanksgiving, and Nicole’s coupon group stepped up, supplying food for the celebration, and Christmas following. “When a child is going hungry, I know how that feels,” the mom of three told WHIO-TV. “I don’t want a child or …