City Harvest

Today is?DAF?Day! A donor advised fund (DAF) is a tax-advantaged charitable investment fund that allows donors to champion their favorite nonprofits, like City Harvest. The need for food assistance in New York City is the highest on record, per FeedNYC. Make a gift from your?DAF?to support our work rescuing and delivering free, nourishing food to New Yorkers in need:?https://lnkd.in/evhNUQcK #WeAreCityHarvest

Over 200 food pantry leaders from across our city provided their expert input on how state policies can fight food insecurity among New Yorkers who are grappling with the high cost of living. In partnership with Food Bank For New York City and United Way of New York City, our city’s three largest anti-hunger organizations, we identified three ways that State policies can help create food secure futures: ? ?? 1. Get more food to people who need it by investing in the emergency food system and expanding SNAP benefits and eligibility? 2. Make childcare affordable to help alleviate a key factor in higher food insecurity rates for families? 3. Improve housing stability to protect New Yorkers who are rent-burdened and 3X as likely to experience food insecurity We recently sent these policy priorities in a letter to Governor Hochul. Join us and stay updated on our advocacy campaign: https://p2a.co/4o8awR9

As Hunger Action Month comes to a close, we are sending a heartfelt thank you to everyone who took action and played a critical role in helping to provide food for our neighbors in need. ?? Special thanks to Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, who joined us in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, on Hunger Action Day for a repack where volunteers—including Food Council member Millie Peartree and actors Bianca Lawson and Dascha Polanco—packed 2,025 family-sized bags of pears, to be distributed to NYC families in need. It’s not too late to get involved. Find out how you can help feed good in NYC: https://lnkd.in/e7AYHgPW ?? : Paul Morigi / Getty Images / Feeding America

The need for food assistance in New York City is the highest on record, according to a City Harvest analysis of data from FeedNYC. Average monthly visits to NYC food pantries and soup kitchens this year remain up more than 82% compared to 2019. You can play a critical role in helping to feed our NYC neighbors in need during Hunger Action Month! Here are a few ways to get started: ??♀??Volunteer ?? Donate ?? Support businesses supporting us ?? Advocate for anti-hunger policies Learn more and take action:?https://lnkd.in/e7AYHgPW Thank you to our?Hunger Action Month?sponsors Too Good & Co., PennantPark Investment Advisers, LLC, OXO, Shake Shack, and Sharebite. #WeAreCityHarvest

All hands in for Hunger Action Month! Join the top chefs, restaurateurs, and culinary experts on our Food Council in?standing with us?to feed good and provide nutritious free food to New Yorkers in need. There are so many ways to get involved: volunteer, advocate, donate, attend a City Harvest event, and more. Visit https://lnkd.in/gDqKETqh to take action today. #WeAreCityHarvest

This summer, 11 corporate groups volunteered, alongside other City Harvest volunteers, at our Food Rescue Center through our inaugural Summer Service Days program. A total of 395 volunteers repacked corn, sweet potatoes, apples, and pears, into 28,096 family sized bags to be more easily distributed to New Yorkers facing food insecurity. Visit https://lnkd.in/ev2TG-4H to learn how your company can make a difference.?#WeAreCityHarvest? ? Thank you to StoreBound, Guggenheim Securities, The Riverside Company, and Boll & Branch for standing with us!

In the United States, nearly 40% of food is wasted. Food is the single biggest material placed in municipal landfills, which emit greenhouse gases—a major contributor to climate change. This year, City Harvest will rescue and deliver more than 81 million pounds of perfectly good, nutritious food that would have otherwise gone to waste, preventing the equivalent of 24.4 million kilograms of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. It would take 1.1 million trees to absorb that same amount of carbon in a year! Learn more about food rescue: https://lnkd.in/dY8NQjui #WeAreCityHarvest

Thank you to Guggenheim Securities for volunteering with us at our Food Rescue Center through our Summer Service Days program. Together, more than 80 volunteers repacked sweet potatoes from large bins into 4,692 family-sized bags to be distributed to our NYC neighbors in need. #WeAreCityHarvest?

We are thrilled to have several corporate groups volunteering, alongside other City Harvest volunteers, at our Food Rescue Center this summer through our inaugural Summer Service Days program. So far this summer, 174 volunteers have helped repack 11,537 bags of apples, pears, and corn for New York City families. Visit https://lnkd.in/e_N_xCDE to learn how your company can get involved with City Harvest. #WeAreCityHarvest? Thank you to our volunteers at Warburg Pincus LLC, HSBC, DWS Group, Apollo Global Management, Inc., Chobani, Shiseido Americas, and Goldman Sachs!

Experience a day in the life of a City Harvest driver! ?? Follow along as Christian makes his way through Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens in one day to rescue beautiful apples, pineapples, grapes, potatoes, lychees, and peppers that otherwise may have gone to waste, and delivers them to our partner agencies to help feed New Yorkers in need. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/ed_7TZ87. #WeAreCityHarvest