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"After working all day, coming home to an empty kitchen is hard. The juice is always the first thing to go.

"But we are so lucky. We can come here and get a good hot meal or a bag of groceries that will pull us through."

Read this and other stories of people we help.

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Food Bank For New York City works to end hunger and increase access to affordable, nutritious food for low-income New Yorkers through a comprehensive group of programs that combat hunger and its causes.

Check-Out Hunger

Check-Out Hunger

Fight hunger while on line — the grocery line, that is. Oct 1 through Jan 9, grocery shoppers throughout NYC can make a donation to the Food Bank at the check-out of participating supermarkets.

NYC Goes Orange

NYC Goes Orange

Imagine the city's skyline illuminated orange...your favorite restaurants and shops raising funds for families in need...and media outlets filling their pages and broadcasts with "Go Orange" messages — all in support of hunger relief!

Online Toolkit
Help raise hunger awareness on your social networking profiles, desktop, blog and more with our easy-to-use Online Toolkit.

Small Change Adds Up

Small Change Adds Up

Whole Foods Market is excited to announce their Small Change Adds Up charitable program. When you bring your reusable bag you can now choose to donate your 10 cent savings to benefit the Food Bank!

The Lunchbox Auction

The Lunchbox Auction

Join Mario Batali and Michael Stipe for an auction of custom lunchboxes designed by celebrities from the entertainment, fashion, music, art, and culinary worlds — all to benefit hunger relief, Dec 12–18. Plus, get tickets today to the exclusive kick-off party, hosted by Gourmet!

Child Hunger policy paper
Learn more about childhood hunger in our city with the Food Bank's new policy paper, Child Hunger: The Unhealthy Return on Missed Investments — released on October 7, 2008.

NYC Hunger Experience 2008
The number of NYC residents experiencing difficulty affording needed food over the past year has steadily increased to 3.1 million in 2007, 55 percent higher than in 2003. Learn more in NYC Hunger Experience 2008, the fifth report in this series.

State Increases Funding — Still Below Last Year's Levels
After first cutting emergency food funding in the state budget, Governor Paterson recently increased food stamp benefits and funding for emergency food — but emergency food funding remains below last year's levels. Add your name today in support of the Food Bank's call to fully reinstate and increase funding.

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Main Office: 39 Broadway, New York, NY 10006 ¦ Phone: 212.566.7855 ¦ Fax: 212.566.1463

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