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, Director of Food Operations
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. In addition to these partners, we also prepare some of the meals ourselves in our kitchen.
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 3:45 p.m. and 5:30 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
The Food Pantry is open to our clients every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at our 50 Washington Ave location. Volunteers are needed for these distributions and also on Mondays and Tuesdays to prepare for them.
Please see our Food Pantry Schedule under “Programs & Services”
Volunteers are needed every Monday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon to unload and sort non-perishable food that is delivered to HOPE.
Volunteers are needed every Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon to unload the food delivery from Feeding Westchester.
Volunteers are needed Wednesdays 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.
The MINIMUM VOLUNTEER AGE is 12, and please note that 12 and 13 year old students MUST HAVE an adult with them.
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.
Today, HOPE remains the only Kosher Pantry in Westchester County.
Bags of food are distributed twice a month on Thursday mornings from
9:00 a.m. to 12 noon. Food is available for pickup and distributed throughout Westchester by volunteer drivers.
