The INN (INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK)

Our Mission: As a not-for-profit, volunteer-based organization, The INN provides a broad variety of essential services to assist those challenged by hunger, homelessness and profound poverty. We partner with those in need in a dignified and respectful manner to help them achieve self-sufficiency.

The INN (Interfaith Nutrition Network) has worked tirelessly for 35 years to assist hungry and homeless Long Islanders through a constantly changing network that included multiple soup kitchens, emergency and long-term shelter programs and most recently a resource center called the Center for Transformative Change, that gives individuals and families a chance to break through the cycle of poverty and obtain the resources needed to be in a position where they no longer need our services.

The INN has a longstanding, stellar reputation in the community for adhering to its original principles that began in 1983, to provide supporting services, including basic and more extensive needs to anyone in the community who seeks our help. With a small staff and deep philosophy of dignity, respect and love, as well as a number of dedicated volunteers, The INN works towards our goals every day as we grow and change and transition into an invaluable resource to those in need.

We are in a transition mode, after having supported a number of soup kitchens all over Long Island, providing support and assistance to over 25 individual community soup kitchen efforts. Those efforts have collectively provided over 300,000 meals annually across Long Island for more than 30 years. As the individual soup kitchens begin to operate independently after utilizing The INN's guidance and support, The INN remains focused on helping families and individuals in need become self sufficient. The addition of the Center for Transformative Change resource center and clothing boutique, housed directly next door to the Mary Brennan INN soup kitchen, the first soup kitchen in Nassau County and the largest on Long Island, is in direct response to the need for guests to break the cycle of poverty by obtaining more than the basic necessities of food and shelter. We hope to continue to get chronically homeless guests off the street for good after years of homelessness and teach the necessary skills to be self-sufficient. Additional services at the Center for Transformative Change are in the works and will be life-changing for those in need.