FOOD SERVICES
HOPE's Food Pantry is one of the largest in Westchester County. HOPE’s Community Kitchen serves over 100 meals a night.
These 2 programs are and have always been the center of HOPE’s community outreach. Our team of staff and volunteers take great pride in helping to support our neighbors.
Contact Valentina Cook, Food Service Manager
Community Kitchen
When HOPE originated in 1984 as a Soup Kitchen now called Community Kitchen), our founder, Mary Lou McNaney, began bringing food to destitute residents at the New Rochelle train station. Today this program proudly serves over 100 meals nightly in our dining room, to our most needy neighbors. A to-go lunch bag is included for the next day.
Teams of volunteers help us serve the delicious hot meals made by local supporting restaurants, churches, synagogues and organizations.
Providing dignity and a social interaction are just as much part of our meal service as the food.
Dinner is served every week day (Monday through Friday). Volunteers generally are needed between the hours of 4:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. Volunteers serve the clients, and assist in clean up after dinner.
The MINIMUM VOLUNTEER AGE is 12, and please note that 12 and 13 year old students MUST HAVE an adult with them.
Food Pantry
Pantry bags are distributed every other Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at our 50 Washington Ave location. On alternate Wednesdays pantry bags are distributed at our Mobile Pantry at 570 5th Ave from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Volunteers are needed for these distributions and also to prepare for them.
Volunteers are needed every Monday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon to pack the pantry bags and to unload and sort non-perishable food that is delivered to HOPE.
Volunteers are needed every Tuesday from 9a.m. to 12 noon to unload the food delivery from Feeding Westchester.
Volunteers are needed Wednesdays when the distribution is at 50 Washington Ave from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. to set up, distribute, and clean up on pantry days.
Volunteers are needed Wednesdays when the distribution is at 570 5th Ave from 10a.m. to 12 noon to pack vans at HOPE to drive over for the mobile pantry, and from 1:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. to set up, distribute, and clean up at 570 5th Ave.
Volunteers are needed on Fridays from 1:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. to help with our distribution of extra produce.
The MINIMUM VOLUNTEER AGE is 12, and please note that 12 and 13 year old students MUST HAVE an adult with them.
Mobile Pantry & Senior Deliveries
In direct response to the Covid-19 Pandemic, HOPE created a Senior Pantry Delivery Program and Mobile Pantry targeting community members who are unable to leave their homes, or travel to our main facility.
Volunteers are needed every Monday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon to pack the pantry bags and to unload and sort non-perishable food that is delivered to HOPE.
Volunteers are needed every Tuesday from 9a.m. to 12 noon to unload the food delivery from Feeding Westchester.
Volunteers are needed Wednesdays when the distribution is at 570 5th Ave from 10a.m. to 12 noon to pack vans at HOPE to drive over for the mobile pantry, and from 1:30p.m. to 4:15p.m. to set up, distribute, and clean up at 570 5th Ave.
The MINIMUM VOLUNTEER AGE is 12, and please note that 12 and 13 year old students MUST HAVE an adult with them.
HOPE-Full Kids
HOPE-Full Kids provides meals for students during school breaks including Christmas, Winter and Spring Break, as well as the Summer months when students are not in school. Bags of breakfast and lunch foods are available the Friday prior to the holiday for pick up at HOPE.
Volunteers are needed the Wednesday before to help pack the food.
Kosher Pantry
In 2021 HOPE added a Kosher Pantry in partnership with UJA Federation, Met Council and Feeding Westchester to make kosher food available to the Jewish Community.
Bags of food are distributed twice a month on mornings from
10a.m. to 12 noon.
