Yorkville Common Pantry

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Yorkville Common Pantry (YCP) is dedicated to reducing hunger and promoting dignity and self-sufficiency. Their services are provided in the Upper East Side and East Harlem to our neighbors in and around these communities. Click here for our Tzedakah Collection Summary.

s the largest, nonsectarian, neighborhood-based provider of emergency food in New York City, Yorkville Common Pantry serves 1.25 million meals annually to all who come seeking relief from hunger. The pantry was founded in 1981 by a coalition of East Side churches and synagogues (including Congregation Emanu-El).

While fighting hunger is, and will always be, the pantry’s major goal, YCP also offers a wide range of on-site services to meet clients’ needs for shelter, hygiene and health care.

• 24|7 YCP is an acute emergency food-assistance program designed to meet the critical hunger needs of families and individuals 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

   

• The Food Pantry Program distributes nutritional grocery packages to 900 needy families every Thursday and Saturday.

   

• Project Dignity consists of Dignity Shelter and a variety of other services offered to those in the community who need more than nutritional assistance.

   

• As part of Project Dignity, the Dignity Meal Program serves 1,200 hot meals to hungry individuals every week.

Temple Emanu-El’s Religious School has a long tradition of supporting the work of organizations working for social justice through weekly tzedakah donations made by its students. Yorkville Common Pantry has been chosen as the first Religious School tzedakah project for the 2007-2008 school year. All tzedakah funds collected by Religious School students through November of 2007 will go to the pantry.

The money we raise for YCP is especially important this year. In years past YCP received most of their food donations from Food Bank, a federally subsidized organization. This year, Food Bank’s budget was cut in half. Therefore, they no longer are able to provide food to YCP. Our money will help YCP continue its tradition of proper care those in need. For every $20 we raise… We provide a hungry person three hot meals to be eaten at the YCP facility. For each $100 we raise… A family of six receives enough groceries to prepare 18 meals at home. Click here for our Tzedakah Collection Summary Report.

n Wednesday, October 17, 2007, seventh and eighth grade students participating in our Mitzvah Corps program volunteered to help with YCP’s Dignity Meal Program. Students prepared food, served drinks and cleared trays. Most important, they also provided positive youthful energy, service with a smile and compassionate human contact for these homeless members of our community.

Click here to read essays by two participating students as well as to view photos. For more information about this program, contact the Religious School.


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