LOCAL RECIPIENTS
Each year, some 2,000 communities across the U.S. join in CROP Hunger Walks. More than five million CROP Hunger Walkers have participated in more than 36,000 CROP Hunger Walks in the last two decades alone.
CROP Hunger Walks help to provide food and water, as well as resources that empower people to meet their own needs. From seeds and tools, to wells and water systems, to technical training and micro-enterprise loans, the key is people working together to identify their own development priorities, their strengths and their needs--something CWS has learned through some 63 years of working in partnership around the world.
CROP Hunger Walks help to support the overall ministry of Church World Service, especially grassroots, hunger fighting development efforts around the world.
This year CROP Hunger Walks will share some $4 million with food banks, pantries, community gardens, and other local efforts across the U.S. This support is made possible when local CROP Hunger Walks choose the unique option of returning up to 25 percent of what their CROP Hunger Walk raises to hunger-fighting programs in their own community.
Advent Lutheran Food Pantry and Community Lunch
Advent's vibrant neighborhood in New York is home to millionaires and paupers, homeowners and homeless, people thriving and people barely surviving. On the 4th Saturday of every month from 12-1pm, the program invites anyone in need of a good home-cooked meal to be a guest at a sit-down lunch, typically serving 100 guests at each meals.
St. Bartholomew’s Community Ministry
Since 1982, St. Bart's has been serving hot, well balanced meals. The ministry serves between 150 to 200 people three mornings a week. They serve any who are hungry, including more than 600 family groups each month.Guests include the domiciled poor—families with children, the elderly, the disabled, and HIV-AIDS affected individuals. The ministry also provides supplemental food packages of 4-5 days' worth of canned foods and staples.
St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Soup Kitchen
The Soup Kitchen at St. Ignatius is its longest continuing ministry and has served two meals a week to those in need for 25 years. The program serves approximately 250 guests per month, on Saturday afternoons and Monday evenings, a menu of some combination of soup, tuna salad sandwiches, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, fruit juice, fruit cocktail and cookies.
St. Mary’s Episcopal Food Pantry and Outreach
A food pantry operated by a community of faith in West Harlem - the "We Are Not Afraid" church.
Saint Peter’s Lutheran Breakfast Program
This is a Tuesday morning program to provide a comfortable place, a breakfast and a bag of lunch for some of the more unfortunate homeless and needy people in our neighborhood. We are assisted in this by members, friends and the students of Christ the King High School.
Trinity Lutheran Creative Learning Center
An after-school program for children in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Upper Manhattan.
Village Church United Methodist Hope for Neighbors in Need
Hope for our Neighbors in Need is a feeding, information, referral and empowerment ministry of The Village Church. Presently, the core of this ministry is the feeding program. They now serve lunches to their neighbors 3 days a week: in Tompkins Square Park on Saturdays, and at the West Village building on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
West Side Campaign Against Hunger
In 1993, the West Side Campaign Against Hunger created the first customer choice "supermarket-style" food pantry in the United States, becoming the model for other programs across the country. The supermarket system allows our customers to select food based on preference and need, encouraging our goal of creating a culture that promotes self-reliance.