Our newest program, Mobile Pantry, launched last year at the height of the pandemic. When other social services agencies asked for our help providing food for their constituents in need, we repurposed our Food Rescue trucks to deliver grocery packages for curbside pickups at their locations, delivering over 1.1 million meals for 11,208 individuals in FY21. With this custom vehicle, the program will offer social services support as well as nutrition education alongside distribution of pantry packages — bringing all the services Choice Pantry members can access in East Harlem and the Bronx to neighborhoods citywide.

Choice Pantry distributes nutritionally balanced grocery packages to thousands of families annually from our locations in East Harlem and the Bronx.  Our innovative “choice” model allows Pantry members to order their groceries online or on-site using touch screen tablets.

Project Dignity serves as a bridge back to well-being for our homeless guests, offering on-site showers, laundry, and haircuts, providing a mailing address, and connections with services that aid in locating housing, medical care, and job training.

Live Healthy!, our nutrition education program, provides interactive wellness education, helping participants build the food preparation and shopping skills to eat healthily on a budget, and collaborates with clinical partners to reach food insecure New Yorkers at high risk for diabetes, hypertension, and other illnesses related to a poor diet.

Help 365 and Help 365 Mobile provide case-management services, such as assistance accessing SSI benefits, SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), and the recently launched Excluded Workers Fund, as well as Choice Pantry program enrollment.

Hot Meals program, based at our East Harlem location, offers healthy freshly prepared meals five days a week and “brown bag” lunches on weekends.

Our Nourish program serves low-income seniors in their own communities, providing supplemental grocery packages and nutrition education services.