New York Common Pantry

Program one: nourish (commodity supplemental food program)a commodity supplemental food program, nourish is nycp's largest program service by expense and is jointly funded by usda and New York state. The program helps distribute large nutritious food packages to low-income seniors from a home office in the bronx and over 129 sites throughout New York city and some parts of westchester county. Nourish serves five days a week, one day during early morning extended hours, and once a month on the weekend at the home site. In fy23, these monthly packages served 204,838 visitors (an 8% increase compared to fy22) and distributed 4,701,752 meals (an 8% increase compared to fy22). The cost per meal in the nourish program in fy23 was $2.01. Nourish's primary enrollment/the home office was moved from 138th street in the bronx to 788 southern boulevard, also in the bronx, in fy23.

Program three: mobile Pantry mobile Pantry partnered with 136 community-based organizations to bring food throughout the city, serving 58 regular distribution sites and 78 pop-up sites and making 1100 distributions through fy23. Choice Pantry mobile provided 1,939,930 meals to 128,436 visitors in fy23. The cost per meal was $1.10.

Program two: choice Pantry manhattanchoice Pantry manhattan distributes a variety of wholesome and healthy foods via 'Pantry packages' available to any low-income New yorker. These foods are accessed through bulk purchasing, large-scale food donations by food banks, and nycp's food rescue team, which picks up from wholesalers and warehouses, restaurants, supermarkets, and our food drive partners across the city. Pantry screening, enrollment, and emergency food provision are open seven days a week, 365 days a year, with shortened hours on sundays and holidays. Regular choice Pantry manhattan distribution days are wednesday through saturday. The program served 2,186,980 meals to 144,185 visitors in fy23 (up 18% in meals and 23% in visitors from fy22). The choice Pantry program is integrated with the help 365 resource screening program, which facilitates and accesses other resources (tax assistance, snap, and health benefits) to reduce food insecurity. The cost per meal at choice Pantry manhattan was $1.27 in fy23. Choice Pantry manhattan is located at 8 east 109th street, New York, ny 10029.

Choice Pantry bronx:choice Pantry bronx distributes a variety of wholesome and healthy foods via 'Pantry packages' to any low-income New yorker, emphasizing those residing in the bronx. In fy23, the program operated on a tuesday-to-saturday schedule for enrollment and emergency packages and distributed regular Pantry packages from thursday to saturday. In fy23, the program served 1,276,126 meals (1,034,888 in fy22) to 97,406 visitors(74,744 in fy22). The cost per meal at choice Pantry bronx was $0.98.total expenses: $1,251,590help 365:helped 365 bronx, manhattan, and mobile programs; screened and accessed resources for 13,852 low-income New yorkers in fy23, up 22% from fy22. The program comprises help 365 bronx, help 365 manhattan, and the help 365 mobile team. The mobile team focuses on snap benefits and travels to communities where research has shown underutilization of the benefit. Together, these three help 365 programs cost $1,044,668 and directly accessed $7,119,275 for those served(an increase of 39% over fy22), a return on investment (roi) of $6.81 (up from $5.96 from fy22).total expenses: $1,044,668live healthy! :the live healthy! Program delivers nutrition education and food equity interventions to culturally diverse snap-eligible populations experiencing all at risk for food insecurity. The program serves New yorkers across all boroughs, providing resources for partner organizations through print and virtual efforts. The live healthy program hosts nutrition education workshops virtually and at partner sites throughout the communities served. Over 338 workshops were offered in fy23, serving 3,630 visitors. Live healthy program also leads food equity initiatives: foodmd, a fruit and vegetable prescription program, and farm share, a community-supported agriculture model. Foodmd works with federally qualified health centers and other clinical community partners to screen and refer patients experiencing food-related chronic disease and food insecurity within the household. Fifty-four (54) visitors participated in foodmd workshops in fy23. The farm share initiative provided over 28091 lbs. Of food to 371 individuals in fy23. Live healthy! Served 9,482 visitors in fy23, up 107% from fy22. The cost per visitor was $112.38.total expenses: $1,065,589hot meals:the hot meal program primarily serves the homeless and those unable to prepare food in their homes for themselves. In fy23, it operated over 250 lunch events and served 53,813 meals, an increase of over 34% from fy22, partly due to the rise in migrants. The brown bag service (food distributed on days when the hot meal program was not administered) served 23,237 meals, up 29% from fy22. The brownbag and hot meals program served 58,012 meals, up 33% from fy22. The cost per meal was $9.12, up from $7.06 in fy22.total expenses: $528,874project dignity:project dignity provides various critical services to the homeless, including showers, haircuts, laundry, mail, psychiatric support, and housing referral and placement. In fy22, the program provided 1,675 showers, helped 179 guests use nycp as their mailing address, provided 218 haircuts and 716 loads of laundry, referred/assisted 29 people to/with telehealth psychiatric services, and completed 38 housing applications. The program accessed $709,518 in resources for homeless guests(slightly more than fy22), with a return on investment (roi) of $3.29 for every $1 spent. Total expenses: $215,455