Help City Harvest Feed NYC After Sandy

We have been proud to work with City Harvest through our Better To Give program, donating on our customer’s behalf to an organization that helps feed New York’s hungry. The amount of people living in New York City who are considered Food Insecure is about 1.2 million (source), and that number has increased since Sandy has left many without electricity and some without homes.

City Harvest is working hard to support Hurricane Sandy victims while continuing to feed the hungry men, women and children who rely on it every day. In addition to daily deliveries to soup kitchens and food pantries across the five boroughs, City Harvest is making emergency food drop-offs in especially hard hit areas in Staten Island, Coney Island and Red Hook in Brooklyn, and Breezy Point and Rockaway in Queens.

Since the storm, City Harvest has been accepting donations of non-perishable food from citizens and prepared foods from partnering restaurants across the city. They have rented additional trucks and hired additional temporary staff to keep food moving to where it is needed most. In the week following the storm, City Harvest delivered over a million pounds of food from their Long Island City, Queens location to emergency food partners across the city – the most ever for City Harvest in a week.

Want to get involved?

• If you’re in the NYC area, you can volunteer with City Harvest to sort and deliver food.
• Purchase the Plate With Purpose. UncommonGoods will donate $25 for each plate sold to City Harvest.
• Choose City Harvest at check out and UncommonGoods will donate $1 from your purchase to help feed NYC’s hungry.