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. Learn how to run an online food drive.
Upcoming Food Drives
Feed Our Kids Food Drive
SUNDAY, MAY 11–SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 2025
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’s drive raised more than 150,000 pounds of food.
How To: Run A Successful Food Drive At School
How To: Run A Successful Food Drive At Work
Past Food Drives
Passover Food Drive
MONDAY, March 24–MONDAY, April 28, 2025
More than half a million Jewish New Yorkers struggle to put kosher food on their tables. Last year’s Passover Food Drive raised more than 20,000 pounds of food.
HOW TO: RUN AN IN-PERSON FOOD DRIVE
HOW TO: RUN AN ONLINE FOOD DRIVE
Download an 11×17 poster
Download an 8.5×11 posterThank you to our sponsor:
Daily News Food Drive
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2024–FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2025
We partnered with The New York Daily News to host The Daily News Food Drive, New York City’s largest food drive. This annual event runs throughout the holiday season to provide nutritious food for our neighbors in need. This year, the drive raised more than 530,000 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 16–MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2024
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 17,000 pounds of food!
Read more about our Kosher Food Rescue.
HOW TO: RUN AN IN-PERSON FOOD DRIVE
HOW TO: RUN AN ONLINE FOOD DRIVE
Download an 11×17 poster
Download an 8.5×11 poster