City Harvest

When your local grocery store has excess produce or a cafe around the corner has unsold bagels, City Harvest steps in to redirect that perfectly good food to our neighbors in need, fighting hunger and food waste through food rescue and distribution.   Last year, we rescued food from more than 1,500 businesses in New York City, and those donations account for one third of all of the food City Harvest rescues and provides to our neighbors in need. Learn more from Taliza on our Supply Chain team. Find out how you can get involved: https://lnkd.in/dkN6bqBi #WeAreCityHarvest

City Harvest rescues food locally and nationally to help feed New Yorkers in need. We source excess produce from farms across the country in partnership with Feeding America, preventing perfectly good food from going to waste, while supporting farmers and our neighbors. This year, we are proud to share we will rescue more than 100 million pounds of food, 77% of which will be fresh produce, including 10 million pounds of produce grown at 35 farms across New York State.   Hear more from Max, Director of Procurement & Inventory Controls, and find out how you can get involved with City Harvest: https://lnkd.in/eUCmenT7 #WeAreCityHarvest

New data show food insecurity in New York City has worsened to record highs: 1 in 5 New Yorkers, or nearly 1.6 million people, are experiencing food insecurity, up from 1 in 6 a year ago, and 1 in 8 in 2019. This is heightened for children, with 1 in 4 NYC children experiencing food insecurity, an increase of 50,000 NYC children compared to the previous year.   This comes from the latest release of Map the Meal Gap, Feeding America’s food insecurity estimates, using information from 2024, the final year of USDA food insecurity data.     We fear these numbers will continue to worsen: This reflects hunger in New York City before H.R.1 was signed into law, making the largest cuts to food assistance and Medicaid in U.S. history. As more New Yorkers lose access to SNAP and see their benefits decrease, we know food pantry lines will grow longer, and more of our neighbors will turn to us for help to put food on the table. We are stepping up to provide more nutritious food to any New Yorker who needs it. To join us, visit CityHarvest.org. #WeAreCityHarvest

In honor of the GrowNYC Greenmarket 50th anniversary this week, we are taking a look back at Greenmarket Rescues over our 30 years of partnership with GrowNYC. Since 1996, City Harvest volunteers have collected unsold produce at the close of Greenmarkets throughout New York City, resulting in more than 12 million pounds of farm-fresh food donated by vendors and distributed to our partner food pantries and soup kitchens to ensure our neighbors in need have the food they need to thrive. Congratulations to GrowNYC on 50 years of Greenmarkets and thank you for your continued partnership. Learn how you can get involved: https://lnkd.in/dCn6nPAd #WeAreCityHarvest

In part two of our look behind-the-scenes at City Harvest, Jack, Associate Director of Logistics, shares that no two days are the same. City Harvest trucks make roughly 250 stops each day, across all five boroughs of New York City. Our team might face World Cup traffic, get a call about several pallets of broccoli that urgently need a home, and so much more. Jack explains how the team handles whatever the day brings. #WeAreCityHarvest

Take a look behind-the-scenes at City Harvest with Jack, our Associate Director of Logistics. He’s part of the team that manages the routing for City Harvest’s fleet of 23 food rescue trucks, ensuring they are in the right place to collect food from local donors and deliver it to our pantry partners, helping to feed good for our NYC neighbors in need. #WeAreCityHarvest

City Harvest CEO Jilly Stephens spoke with NY1 about what Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s $1 million donation means for our NYC neighbors experiencing food insecurity. “We are seeing a staggering amount of need in New York City, visits to food pantries are at near-record highs,” she shared. Watch the clip to hear more. To meet this growing need, this year City Harvest will rescue 100 million pounds of high-quality, nutritious food that would otherwise go to waste and deliver it for free to soup kitchens and food pantries throughout the city. Learn how you can support our work by visiting https://lnkd.in/ejyh2fXQ. #WeAreCityHarvest

When the Specialty Food Association Summer Fancy Food Show comes to a close, City Harvest volunteers take to the showroom floor at the Javits Center. Last week, 180 volunteers helped rescue more than 70,000 pounds of high-quality food donated by vendors—including cheese wheels, hams, jams, oils, and so much more—much of which was immediately delivered to Evangel Food Pantry in Queens, and Teen Challenge, Salt & Sea Mission, and Open Door in Brooklyn to provide free food for our NYC neighbors in need. Learn how you can get involved: cityharvest.org/volunteer. #WeAreCityHarvest 📸: Lori Cannava

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's generous donation to City Harvest comes at a critical time. Visits to New York City soup kitchens and food pantries are persistently high, and as recent historic cuts to federal food assistance go into effect, we know that even more New Yorkers will need to visit food pantries in order to put food on the table. Join them in supporting our work at cityharvest.org/donate, and read the People article: https://lnkd.in/gXgfk2xh #WeAreCityHarvest

It’s a love story that feeds good! 💚 Thank you to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce for supporting our work rescuing and delivering high-quality food for our New York City neighbors in need. Join them and stand with us: CityHarvest.org/Donate. #WeAreCityHarvest