Food pantriesCancer patientsLow-incomeTo examine uptake of a novel emergency food system at five cancer clinics in New York City, hospital-based food pantries, and predictors of use, among low-income urban cancer patients. This is a nested cohort study of 351 patients who first visited the ...
There were warm feelings of gratefulness and giving inside New York City food pantries and charities on Thanksgiving. Nov 28, 2024 Migrants arriving in New York face many challenges — including getting food Some mothers have told advocates that since arriving in the U.S., their children ...
Analysis: New York City soup kitchens and food pantries have seen an increased number of clients and homeless people since the September 11th attacksLINDA WERTHEIMER
United Way of New York City’s Community Chef Program is a workshop series that operates in five food pantries across the city and hosts cooking demonstrations and nutrition education classes. The program is a part of the Local Produce ...
The nonprofit City Harvest rescues food from more than 2,000 locations weekly and delivers it to people in need for free through nearly 400 soup kitchens, food pantries and other programs. It estimates that last year alone, it saved 132 million pounds of food and that most of it was ...
of work. “This had an almost immediate trickle-down effect on so many other areas,” saysJill Zucker, a McKinsey senior partner and leader of the New York office. “During April, food pantries and soup kitchens suddenly reported running out of food with a spike in fir...
During the pandemic, residents in Harlem, New York, leaned on local organizations like New York City's The Brotherhood Sister Sol for resources, guidance and food. The group has taken matters of food insecurity into its own hands with a weekly grocery distribution that feeds more than 500 ...
Rates of food insecurity are high among medically underserved patients. We analyzed food pantry responsiveness to the needs of medically ill cancer patients in New York City with the intent ofidentifying barriers to available food resources. Our data, collected from 60 pantries, suggest that the em...
City Harvest, a nonprofit organization that provides transportation for donated food to numerous soup kitchens and food pantries in New York City, says it has seen a drop in the number of baked good donations because these items are now more valuable to donors. The organization also reports not...
Nearly a third of food pantries nationally have closed in recent weeks, according to the New York City Mission Society. Small food banks in New York City, which has become the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, have closed down because "they haven't gotten food to distribute or they don...