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19 EMERGENCY FOOD
Challenge
Response
Let’s make sure no New Yorker goes hungry.
Nearly one in three adult New Yorkers and almost half of NYC families with children don’t have enough to eat. Food pantry use is twice as high as before the pandemic. According to our Poverty Tracker research, pantries are increasingly serving a broader range of New Yorkers, including those who work full-time. Research tells us that hunger and the lack of enough nourishing food are linked to substandard health outcomes—thwarting children’s growth and learning, and limiting their full potential.
Your generosity nourishes the most vulnerable New Yorkers. Your support sustains a vast ecosystem of organizations that feed New Yorkers every day, including emergency service organizations, soup kitchens, and food pantries. Your generosity also connects hungry New Yorkers to an array of government benefit programs that provide food, housing, and health care assistance. Your investment fosters dignity and autonomy and provides certainty for families struggling to access pathways to upward mobility.
Distributed 100+ including more than 50 to New Yorkers in need across all five boroughs. Here’s What You Made Possible MILLION POUNDS OF FOOD MILLION POUNDS OF FRESH PRODUCE
Connected 350,000 INDIVIDUAL NEW YORKERS and over 160,000 HOUSEHOLDS , nearly two-thirds of which have children, to critical benefits that provide families with food and other essential resouces.
IN 2024
GRANTS TOTALED $2.8 MILLION
Your Support Is Still Urgently Needed Our advocacy efforts are laser-focused on maintaining public funding for food assistance programs. Recent proposals to cut the federal SNAP program may result in New York State losing as much as $15 to $20 billion in food benefits over the next decade, leaving 1.8 million New Yorkers strapped and with few alternatives to feed their families. Your support is giving a voice to those without one.
Forty-four percent (44%)—almost half—of families with children in New York City know the pain of hunger.
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