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Food Drives

Participate In A Food Drive Or Start Your Own.

All over the city, New Yorkers help feed their neighbors by organizing food drives with their schools, apartment buildings, businesses, and places of worship.

Help City Harvest feed New York City by keeping food pantries and soup kitchens stocked year-round. For more information on running a food drive, please see below, email [email protected], or call 646.277.7800.

Start An Online Fresh Food Drive

Did you know that more than half of the food City Harvest rescues and delivers is fresh fruits and vegetables? If you’re looking for an alternative to a traditional canned food drive, you can help donate fresh produce by running a #GiveHealthy food drive. The #GiveHealthy platform allows you to purchase food items directly for City Harvest.

Upcoming Food Drives

  • Passover Food Drive

    MONDAY, APRIL 1–MONDAY, MAY 6, 2024

     

    More than half a million Jewish New Yorkers struggle to put kosher food on their tables. Last year, City Harvest’s Passover Food Drive raised over 14,000 pounds of kosher food. Read about our work helping provide kosher for Passover food to the Masbia food pantry in Brooklyn.

     

    How to Run an Online Passover Food Drive

    How to Run a Passover Food Drive

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    Thank you to our sponsors:

  • Feed Our Kids Food Drive

    SUNDAY, MAY 12–SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2024

    City Harvest’s annual Feed Our Kids food drive, runs each year from Mother’s Day to Father’s Day and helps provide much needed food for New York City’s children and their families, especially during summer, when access to free schools meals may become limited. Last year, we were able to raise over 165,000 pounds of food. Thank you to our 2023 generous partners:

     

Past Food Drives

  • Daily News Food Drive

    TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2023–FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2024

    We once again partnered with The New York Daily News to host The Daily News Food Drive, the largest food drive in New York City. This annual event runs throughout the holiday season to provide nutritious food for our neighbors in need. This year, the drive raised more than 640,000 pounds of food which we delivered, free of charge, to hundreds of food pantries and other community food programs across the five boroughs.

  • High Holidays Food Drive

    MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11–MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2023

    More than half a million Jewish New Yorkers struggle to put food on their tables. You can help our kosher neighbors in need by participating in City Harvest’s High Holidays Food Drive. Last year, we collected more than 24,800 pounds of food!

    Thanks to our friends at the 92nd Street Y for hosting a public drop-off site for non-perishable food donations available in their lobby, behind the security guard station (1395 Lexington Avenue, between E 91st Street and E 92nd Street).

    Read more about our Kosher Food Rescue.

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