The Nutrition Outreach and Education Program (NOEP) supports a network of community-based organizations that conduct SNAP outreach and provide free and confidential application assistance to food-insecure New Yorkers. NOEP helped…
Nourish New York is a program that provides funding for food banks and community-based organizations to purchase nutritious, locally-sourced and culturally appropriate foods directly from New York-based farmers, fisheries, and…
Food insecurity rates increased in 2022 once pandemic-era relief measures ended, and they have continued to rise in each of the last two years. The Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance…
Federal law currently excludes over 700,000 New Yorkers from vital nutrition assistance due solely to their immigration status. Despite contributing more than $3 billion per year in state and local…
SNAP is the nation’s largest and most impactful anti-hunger program. However, some participants in New York receive as little as $23 per month—or less than $1 per day—in food assistance.…
More than 320,000 students in New York lack access to free school meals. This forces children to choose between forgoing meals or going into debt to get the food that…
