City Harvest, Inc.

City Harvest rescues perfectly good food that would otherwise go to waste and delivers it, free of charge, to hundreds of soup kitchens, food pantries, and other community food programs that serve New Yorkers in need.
City Harvest is New York’s first and largest food rescue organization, collecting high-quality, nutritious food that would otherwise go to waste to help provide free food for millions of New Yorkers experiencing food insecurity. Since our founding in 1982, we have rescued more than one billion pounds of fresh, nutritious food and delivered it—free of charge—to hundreds of food pantries, soup kitchens, community partners, and our own Mobile Markets® across the five boroughs. This year, we will rescue and distribute more than 81 million pounds of nutritious food to our neighbors in need. By redirecting that food to families, we will also prevent the equivalent of more than 20 million kilograms of CO2 from entering the atmosphere. Named one of America's Top 100 Charities by Forbes, City Harvest also works alongside our community partners to build their capacity, expand nutrition education, and advocate for systems change through effective public policy. For more than 40 years, City Harvest has been there to feed our city—one day, one meal, one New Yorker at a time. To learn more, please visit cityharvest.org.

This year, City Harvest will rescue more than 81 million pounds of food and deliver it, free of charge, to nearly 400 soup kitchens, food pantries, and other community food programs across New York City’s five boroughs. We partner with volunteers; food donors; individual, corporate, and foundation donors; restaurant and chef partners; and community food programs to ensure that New York City neighborhoods are places where all people can eat, live, and thrive.

City Harvest has a fleet of 23 refrigerated trucks that are on the road seven days a week rescuing and delivering over 200,000 of pounds of nutritious food each day. We rescue food from nearly 1,700 food donors across New York City and nationally, and we partner with hundreds of community food programs across the five boroughs to help get nutritious food directly to those who need it most. Annually, we engage 7,000 corporate and individual volunteers to support our work.

Since 1982, City Harvest has rescued over one billion pounds of high-quality food that would have otherwise gone to waste, and delivered it free of charge to hundreds of soup kitchens and food pantries across the five boroughs. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic—which hit low-income New Yorkers, immigrants, and people of color particularly hard—City Harvest rescued and delivered more than 300 million pounds of food for New Yorkers in need. To meet the continued levels of high need across New York City, City Harvest plans to rescue and deliver more than 81 million pounds of food annually; focus on underserved neighborhoods and customize strategies for each; connect New Yorkers to the food they need through direct distribution and other innovative platforms; and increase the variety of fresh produce in our deliveries.