​Alliance for Community Empowerment​ To Hold Free Food Giveaway

BRIDGEPORT, CT — Alliance for Community Empowerment is holding a free community food distribution event on Sept. 28 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

The event will feature special giveaways by the Firebird Society of Bridgeport and PT Partners. Other community organizations will also be present to support.

Alliance for Community Empowerment is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit agency designed as the "anti-poverty agency" for the Greater Bridgeport Area in September of 1964 by the Office of Economic Opportunity.

Organizations like Alliance for Community Empowerment are vital to the often forgotten population who are food insecure, and they have become even more crucial as the coronavirus continues to up-end society. Feeding America, the nation's largest hunger relief organization, says the virus-related economic crises could push the number of food insecure Americans to 54 million by year's end. That's 17 million more Americans than who were food insecure before the pandemic.

Today, the Alliance aims to work with people toward the eradication of the "paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty in this nation." Alliance for Community Empowerment serves more than 35,000 individuals annually through its broad range of services in a six-town area, covering Bridgeport, Easton, Fairfield, Monroe, Norwalk, Stratford, Trumbull, and Westport, Connecticut.

Patch has partnered with Feeding America to help raise awareness on behalf of the millions of Americans facing hunger. Feeding America, which supports 200 food banks across the country, estimates that in 2020, more than 54 million Americans will not have enough nutritious food to eat due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. This is a Patch social good project; Feeding America receives 100 percent of donations. Find out how you can donate in your community or find a food pantry near you.