We continued to operate in a pre-packed, masked, socially distanced, drive-by distribution model for 2022, as the challenges of managing high client volume, uncertain supply chains and public health concerns...
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Item of the Month for January: Pasta!
Everyone loves pasta! And we invite you to donate all sorts: regular, whole wheat, veggie-loaded, high-protein… and rigatoni, cork screw, butterfly, ziti, … you get the idea! Variety is the...
Thank You from the Garden of Hope
Thank you so much to all of the FPCY Garden of Hope volunteers this year! It really is a community effort. Paul Tesshin Silverman, who many of us know from the interfaith community, wrote a very nice...
Two Recent Initiatives to Benefit our Food Pantry
Cereal drive with FPCY representation by Katharine Frase The Supervisor’s Youth Council recently concluded its inaugural project—a cereal collection drive that supports local food pantries. In partnership...
Item of the Month for December: Healthy Breakfast Cereal
We buy food in bulk from Feeding Westchester, but breakfast cereal is one of the more expensive items that we offer our clients, and the variety on offer is very limited. This month we are asking for...
Would You Like to Help at the Food Pantry?
Interested in helping at the Pantry? Come on in! Throughout the Bible, we find instructions to care for those less fortunate than ourselves, to share our bounty, particularly with the hungry and disadvantaged....
Item of the Month for November: Soup or Broth
For November we would appreciate donations of soup or broth. Soup is always useful for our grocery bags, and broth is helpful at holiday-time. Of course all non-perishable items are welcome. If you would...
Thanksgiving Offering to Benefit our Food Pantry with Special Holiday Items
Contributions to the Thanksgiving Special Offering will help us provide special holiday items for the Christmas-time Food Pantry. Give online, by using the special offering envelope, or mark your check...
Thanksgiving Turkeys Requested!
The Thanksgiving Food Pantry distribution will be on Saturday November 19th. We are expecting to receive fewer turkeys from Feeding Westchester this year (they have supply issues just like everyone else)...
Peekskill Stop and Shop Supports our Food Pantry in November
The First Presbyterian Church of Yorktown Food Pantry has once again been selected by local Stop & Shop store leadership as the benefiting non-profit in the Community Bag Program! For the month of...