How to Help City Harvest Feed 1 in 3 Hungry NYC Children

The 25th Annual Feed Our Kids Food Drive, presented by New York City's largest food rescue organization, City Harvest, will run through this Father’s Day, June 20th. The drive will help provide much-needed food for the growing number of New York City families in need due to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly during the summer months when access to free school meals may be limited.

Last year, the Feed Our Kids Food Drive raised nearly 200,000 pounds of nutritious, kid-friendly food―enough to help feed 738 families for the entire summer. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 1 in 3 New York City children are now projected to experience food insecurity. This is a 64 percent increase over pre-pandemic food insecurity numbers.

Here are some ways New Yorkers can help City Harvest fight childhood hunger during the Feed Our Kids Food Drive!

• Collecting non-perishable food items at your school, office, place of worship and more, and arranging for a City Harvest truck to pick up your donations. (City Harvest can only pick up donations of 100 pounds or more).
• Dropping off non-perishable food donations at FDNY firehouses and EMS Stations, or NYPD police stations, as well as select State Farm Agent sites throughout the five boroughs.
• Setting up an online food drive through City Harvest partner #GiveHealthy, which provides users the opportunity to order fresh produce and non-perishables to be delivered directly to the City Harvest warehouse.
• Donating funds to City Harvest through cityharvest.org to help the organization feed the growing number of New Yorkers turning to City Harvest for help. Just $1 helps us feed two New Yorkers in need for a day.

The most needed items for the drive include canned fruits and vegetables; canned proteins, including tuna and beans; peanut butter in plastic jars; packaged macaroni and cheese; packaged hot and cold cereal; soups; and juice packs. For more information, visit www.CityHarvest.org/feed-our-kids

City Harvest’s Feed Our Kids Food Drive is generously sponsored by Blue Apron, GoGo SqueeZ, Goya and WABC-TV, as well as community partners FDNY, NYPD and State Farm.