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Donations - Monetary
Donate to the Food Bank Association. Monetary donation are always needed to keep our organization running. Your donations help us supply food to the over 2.1 million people who depend on the food banks, and your donations are tax deductable as well!!
Donations can be mailed to:
Food Bank Assocaition of New York State
235 Lark Street
Albany, NY 12210
Donations - Food
Your local Food Bank relies on donations from individuals, retailers, growers and manufacturers to keep their warehouse full and serve your community.
The Food Bank Association serves as the coordinator for the New York State Food Sourcing Committee comprised of all of America's Second Harvest members in New York State. This committee includes:
The Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York (Albany Area)
City Harvest (The Food Rescue Organization serving New York City)
The Food Bank For New York City
Island Harvest (The Food Rescue Organization serving Long Island)
Long Island Cares (the Harry Chapin Food Bank in Hauppauge, Long Island)
The Food Bank of Western New York (Buffalo)
Foodlink (Rochester)
The Food Bank of the Southern Tier (Elmira)
The Food Bank For Westchester (Millwood)
The Food Bank of Central New York (Syarcuse)
The Food Bank of the Hudson Valley (Cornwall, near Newburgh)
Food Bank |
Representative |
Address |
Phone |
E-Mail |
Food Bank Assoc. Executive Director |
John Evers |
Food Bank Association of NYS 235 Lark Street Albany, NY 12210 |
(518) 433-4505
(518) 433-4506
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Food Bank -NYC
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Michael Hurst
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Food Bank For New York City 90 John Street, Suite 702
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(212) 566-7855 (212) 566-1463 (fax)
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City Harvest |
Jennifer McLean
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City Harvest New York, NY 10018 |
(917) 351-8700
(917) 351-8720 (fax)
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Food Bank of Western NY |
Gary Maybach |
Food Bank of Western New York 91 Holt Street Buffalo, NY 14206 |
(716) 852-1305
(716) 852-7858 (fax)
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Foodlink |
Tom Foster
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Foodlink 936 Exchange Street Rochester, New York 14608 |
(585) 328-3380
(585) 328-9951 (fax)
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Food Bank – Southern Tier |
Mary Parmenter |
Food Bank of the Southern Tier 945 County Route64 Elmira, NY 14903 |
(607) 796-6061, Ext 29
(607) 796-6028 (fax)
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Long Island Cares |
Frank Longo
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Long Island Cares, Inc. 10 Davids Drive Hauppauge, NY 11788 |
(631) 582-3663
(631) 273-2184
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Regional Food Bank Northeastern NY |
Joanne Dwyer |
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern NY 965 Albany-Shaker Road Latham, NY 12110 |
(518) 786-3691
(518) 786-3004 (Fax)
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Food Bank – Westchester |
Toby Pidgeon |
Food Bank for Westchester 358 Saw Mill River Road Millwood, NY 10546 |
(914) 923-1100
(914) 923-1198 (fax)
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Toby.Pidgeon@foodbankforwestchester.org
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Food Bank – Central NY |
Peter Ricardo |
Food Bank of Central New York East Syracuse, New York 13057-9791 |
(315) 437-1899
(315) 434-9629 (fax)
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Island Harvest |
Migdalia Otero |
Island Harvest Mineola, N.Y. 199 Second Street |
(516) 294-8528, Ext 40
(516) 747-6843 (fax)
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Food Bank – Hudson Valley |
Jill Dunn |
Food Bank of the Hudson Valley 195 Hudson St., Cornwall-On-Hudson, NY 12520 |
(845) 534-5344
(845) 534-5256 (fax)
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Donation drop off
Food banks can accept donations from a few bags of food to truck loads.
Donation pick up
To arrange a pick up by one of our trucks, please contact your local Food Bank.
Making a donation of food is easy and rewarding. Food donated to the food banks helps us feed over 2.1 million people. Below are just a few of our partnership with various industries. If you would like to make a donation and need to know the location of your nearest food bank, contact the state Executive Director, John Evers. Or you can call one of the individuals listed in the chart below. They will talk to you to arrange pick-up or your product.
Farm Donations
The Food Bank Association has established a very strong partnership with NY Farm Bureau. By partnering with the NY Farm Bureau, food banks from all across the state are able to receive donations of fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy products and other farm-related goods from thousands of local farms. The donation program allows farmers to donate their product all year long, at any food bank in New York State. The food banks will arrange pick-up, weigh-in products, and give the donor a receipt for tax purposes. For more information on how farmers can help us feed the hungry through the donation of excess or surplus produce.
Transportation / Truckers
Many truckers are not aware of the Food Bank Association and the role we play in directing donors (both producers and transporters) to the eight regional food banks located across New York State. Oftentimes food producers, supermarkets, and trucking companies are faced with deciding what to do with excess product. With other shipments waiting and schedules to be made, do producers warehouse excess product? Have truckers haul it to another location? Dump it? Oftentimes truckers have perfectly good product that is refused (for whatever reason) and they need to get to their next destination with an empty truck. What do they do? This dilemma is often compounded when they are in a part of the state where they do not know where to find a place to donate their product. Good news is that food banks can often take it off your hands. The food banks can also give you documentation enabling donors to take credit for donations when taxes are filed. For more information on where to make a donation call The Food Bank Association at (518) 433-4505.
Supermarkets / Convenience Stores
How can the supermarkets, convenience stores, and other retailers help our mission to end hunger? Businesses often serve as the best supporters of the food banks. By donating goods to the food banks, stores often find that food items close to their expiration date, cosmetically damaged goods, or surplus items, need not go to waste. These goods can be donated to local food banks. Donations of these food items cuts down on the waste of perfectly good, though unsaleable, food; reduces the amount of product that needs to be discarded and land-filled; and affords interested and civic-minded companies a tax deduction. Overall, these charitable donations help alleviate hunger in one's community.
Venison Donation Program
Many farmers, hunters, processors, partners, individuals and sportsmen's federations, have assisted the Venison Donation Coalition with their efforts. Since 2000, together they coordinated the collection and distribution of over 400,000 pounds of ground venison - highly nutritious, low fat, high protein meat - for distribution by food banks to those in need. For more information access the Venison Donation web page at: http://www.venisondonation.com/index.html