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Join the Movement to End Hunger
Advocate for city, state, and federal policies that address hunger in New York City. Sign up for action alerts today.
Fund Food Security in the NYC Budget
Urge your city reps to pass a NYC Budget that supports food banks and pantries, protects funding for city programs that create access to food, and promotes food justice.
Tell State Reps to Fund Hunger Relief
Sign the petition to tell your State Representatives to fund hunger relief by increasing SNAP, funding food pantries, and expanding tax credits for working families.
Our Policy Platform
#1: Address the Root Causes of Hunger
Advocate for policies that end hunger by addressing its root causes and confronting systemic inequities that disproportionately impact food insecure communities.
#2: Strengthen Government Programs
Strengthen and expand eligibility for income-based government benefit programs so that all New Yorkers can feed themselves and their families, ensuring that benefits reflect the true cost of living.
#3: Bolster NYC’s Charitable Food Network
Ensure that New York City’s food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelter networks have the resources to provide all food-insecure New Yorkers with access to food that accommodates individual and cultural preferences, and religious requirements, including Halal and Kosher.
#4: Create an Equitable and Sustainable Food System
Advocate for a food system that benefits workers, growers, and businesses that value their workforce, the environment, health and nutrition, and the local economy.
Our Advocacy Work
City Harvest Advocacy Awards
City Harvest works with hundreds of dedicated leaders at food pantries and soup kitchens across the city to advocate a more equitable food system—together. The City Harvest Advocacy Awards recognize these exceptional frontline leaders for their advocacy contributions to fighting hunger in New York City.
Joint Statement in Response to 3 Million New Yorkers Losing Emergency Food Benefits on March 1, 2023
Read the joint statement from City Harvest, Food Bank For New York City, and United Way of New York City. Acting together, we can help make sure fewer New Yorkers go hungry.
Joint Statement in Response to the 2024 NYC Executive Budget
The FY24 NYC budget agreement signed by Mayor Adams included needed investments in anti-hunger efforts.