  “CookShop’s lessons have students readily eating vegetables in our cafeteria that my nutritionist and our parents have told me they were not eating before. CookShop is an essential weapon in our healthy living– healthy eating fight to change the obesity rates in our school and in our neighborhood.” —C.S. 21 Principal Harold Anderson
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Food Sourcing & Distribution
Food Bank For New York City was founded in 1983 with the goal to get large quantities of food to local organizations serving the poor throughout the five boroughs. During our first year, the Food Bank distributed 500,000 pounds of food to 95 food assistance programs. Today, as the city's major supplier of food to a network of more than 1,000 programs, the Food Bank procures, stores and distributes more than 50 million of pounds of food every year — helping to provide 300,000 free meals a day for New Yorkers in need. From Procurement to MealsLearn about the steps our food takes before being delivered into the hands of New Yorkers in need throughout the five boroughs.Where Our Food Comes From
The Food Bank's food acquisition
programs address the rising need in New York City as well as
specific considerations from nutrition to ethnic communities. |
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