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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.

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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.

Start a GiveHealthy Drive

Current Food Drives

  • Daily News Food Drive

    TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2024–FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2025

    We are looking forward to partnering 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. Last 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.

    Learn more about the Daily News Food Drive

Past Food Drives

  • 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
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  • 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. This year’s drive raised more than 130,000 pounds of food.

     

    Thank you to our partners:

  • 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. This year’s Passover Food Drive raised more than 20,000 pounds of food. Read about our work helping provide kosher for Passover food to the Masbia food pantry in Brooklyn.

    Thank you to our sponsors:

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