Stop and Shop’s Bloomin’ 4 Good Program works to fight hunger in our local communities. In this program, every $10.99 Bloomin’ 4 Good Bouquet sold sends a $1 donation to a hunger organization local...
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40 Cans For Lent
Please join us in “40 Cans for Lent.” Last year we journeyed into the wilderness of food insecurity. This year we’ll walk in our neighbors’ shoes as they strive to exit that insecurity and all...
The Souper Bowl Supported our Food Pantry!
From our own congregation, Brookside School and Knights of Columbus, we totaled 538 new cans of soup this week. Brookside alone was 350 of that total !
Item of the Month: Pasta and Cereal!
This month we are requesting “anything made from wheat,” as the war in Ukraine continues to hit home. We are completely out of these items! Everyone loves pasta! And we invite you to donate all sorts:...
Souper Bowl of Caring
The Souper Bowl of Caring is the result of thousands of young people joining together to fight hunger and poverty in their local communities. This unique, youth-led movement of caring is transforming...
Do You Get BJ’s Coupons? Would You Like to Help the Food Pantry Ministry?
Do you belong to BJ’s and get the big coupon book every few weeks? Do you get diaper coupons when you don’t have kids, or when your youngest child is long out of diapers? Please pull those...
Update from the Food Pantry
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...
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...