City Harvest Inc

As a natural extension of the anti-hunger work we began 37 years ago, our programs empower new yorkers through nutrition education, increase our partners capacity, and strengthen the local food system, helping new yorkers who are experiencing food insecurity to access, afford, and consume nutritious food. our programs put nutritious food on the tables of new yorkers in need and help inspire long-term change in the fight against hunger by: 1. relieving food insecurity: city harvest provides hungry new yorkers with nutritious food, free of charge, to feed themselves and their families. a. providing food: this year, city harvest delivered 82.1 million pounds of food across the city. since 59% of this food was produce, soup kitchens and food pantries were then able to offer participants a variety of healthy food. this includes 21.8 million pounds sourced from march through june 2020 as part of city harvests covid-19 pandemic relief response. in fiscal year 2020, city harvest partnered with grocery stores, restaurants, farms, and manufacturers to increase donated and purchased food. this is a 14-million-pound increase from the same time period in fiscal year 2019. b. mobile markets: through free, farmers market-style distributions of produce in low-income communities across the five boroughs, city harvest distributes an average of 3 million pounds of fruits and vegetables each year. on-site cooking demonstrations show residents how to cook with the produce. city harvest has nine mobile markets across new york city that each hold two distributions per month,for a total of 216 events per year. c. community partner distributions: in neighborhoods without traditional food pantries, city harvest partners with local organizations to create farmers market-style events modeled after our mobile markets. we deliver fruits and vegetables, teach the organization how to operate the market, and provide technical expertise. through 14 community partner distributions, we delivered more than 1 million pounds of food in fiscal year 2020. in fy20, we opened two new community partner distributions. these new community partner distributions are located in the bronx, and the far rockaway section of queens. we distributed 233,000 pounds of food through these new sites. d. grants: through our agency capacity-building work, city harvest provides infrastructure support to help build the capability of emergency feeding programs to safely and efficiently distribute food to those in need. we have also supported emergency feeding programs with infrastructure investments since the start of the covid-19 pandemic. many organizations are seeing a record number of clients and are moving more food to respond to this increase in demand. we provide emergency feeding programs with equipment, such as refrigeration and fork lifts, to help them safely distribute more food. 2. providing nutrition education: city harvest offers free nutrition courses and activities focused on buying, preparing, and eating healthy foods. a. nutrition education courses: city harvest provides free nutrition classes for adults, families, teenagers, and senior citizens at participating community organizations, teaching residents how to prepare healthy meals on a budget. we reached nearly 16,000 residents this year until covid-19 impacted these education efforts. we reached an additional nearly 7,000 residents through material distribution from april through june. b. cooking demonstrations: city harvest staff and volunteers demonstrate healthy, budget-conscious recipes and techniques for residents at city harvest mobile markets and at supermarkets. c. shopping workshops: through cooking matters at the store workshops, city harvest teaches customers practical ways to shop for healthy food on a budget at their local supermarket. 3. increasing access to affordable, healthy food: city harvest works with community organizations and local businesses to raise awareness of healthy food and to ensure resid