Who Benefits
Your contribution supports the following recipients
City Harvest
Now serving New York City for more than 25 years, City Harvest is the world’s first food rescue organization, dedicated to feeding the city’s hungry men, women, and children. This year, City Harvest will collect 20 million pounds of excess food from all segments of the food industry, including restaurants, grocers, corporate cafeterias, manufacturers, and farms. This food is then delivered free of charge to more than 600 community food programs throughout New York City using a fleet of 16 trucks and volunteers on foot. Each week, City Harvest helps over 260,000 hungry New Yorkers find their next meal.
Food Change
FoodChange improves lives through nutrition education and financial empowerment. In addition to a focus on feeding New York's hungry children and adults, FoodChange's work includes increasing people's income and purchasing power through access to resources and vocational skill building.
Food Bank For New York City
Food Bank For New York City recognizes 25 years as the city’s major provider of food to New Yorkers in need. The Food Bank works to end hunger and increase access to affordable, nutritious food for low-income New Yorkers through a range of programs and services that focus on nutrition, education and financial empowerment. The Food Bank procures and distributes food to 1.3 million New Yorkers through approximately 1,000 emergency and community food programs throughout the five boroughs. The organization provides food safety, networking and capacity-building workshops; manages nutrition education programs for schools, after-school and emergency food programs; operates food stam outreach and education programs; operates senior programs, a soup kitchen, and food pantry; coordinates the largest Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program in the country; and conducts research and develops policy to inform community and government efforts to end hunger throughout the five boroughs. For additional information, visit www.foodbanknyc.org
Just Food
Just Food works to make fresh, nutritious, locally-grown food a viable choice for all New Yorkers. They implement collaborative projects that support the region's farmers, increase the production of food in urban gardens, and build the capacity of community-based partners throughout NYC. By connecting growers and eaters, they promote healthy farms, healthy communities and a healthy environment.
New York City Coalition Against Hunger
The New York City Coalition Against Hunger (NYCCAH) represents the more than 1,200 nonprofit soup kitchens and food pantries in New York City and the more than one million low-income New Yorkers who are forced to use them. The Coalition works to meet the immediate food needs of low-income New Yorkers and to enact innovative solutions to help them move "beyond the soup kitchen" to self-sufficiency.
Nutrition Consortium of NYS
Nutrition Consortium of New York State, Inc., exists to alleviate hunger for poor and near poor residents of New York State, by expanding the availability of, access to, and use of governmental nutrition assistance programs through: outreach, education, program development and implementation, policy work, coalition building, data analysis and research.
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