HELPING ALL
NEW YORKERS
PUT HEALTHY FOOD
ON THE TABLE.
Access to a choice of healthy food and benefits is not a privilege. It’s a right.
For 45 years, the West Side Campaign Against Hunger (WSCAH) has put dignity, community, and choice at the heart of our work both to serve people and improve the emergency food system.
Dignity
We consider the families and individuals who come to us for support as our customers, and we serve them with respect.
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Community
We make no distinction among friends, customers, and colleagues who are all part of making healthy food easily accessible to everyone.
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Choice
We believe everyone should have easy access to the food they want to eat, and that frontline pantries and soup kitchens should have the autonomy to choose how best to serve their communities.
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Serving MORE New Yorkers MORE healthy food.
LAST YEAR
- FRESH PRODUCE
54%
54% of the food we served was fresh fruit and vegetables.
- POUNDS OF FOOD
5.4M
We distributed 5.4M pound of food.
- FAMILY VISITS
162K
Families received healthy food from WSCAH 162,000 times.
- BENEFITS SUPPORT
1,550
We connected 1,550 families to essential benefits like SNAP.
Our 2024 Healthy Foods Holiday Challenge has begun!
Ways to Get Involved
Donate
Help the 100,000+ people a year who receive healthy food and benefits access (such as SNAP) through WSCAH.
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Volunteer
Help us distribute 100,000 pounds of food weekly.
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Get Services
Looking for food or benefits support? Visit us at 86th Street or give us a call.
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Partner with Us
We work with schools, corporate groups, and other community organizations to serve our customers.
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Advocate
Join us to spread the word about critical issues impacting hungry New Yorkers.
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Join the Roundtable
We lead a network of NYC’s largest emergency food providers that collaborate to bring more resources to communities.
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Your generosity makes a difference
When you give to WSCAH, you are helping us provide food to tens of thousands of friends and neighbors across New York City as well as support for access to essential benefits like SNAP. The result is that customers have healthy food to put on their tables, as well as improved access to the services they need.
See What’s Happening at WSCAH
In ProgressGive the Gift of a Happy Holiday
Nov 1 - 30, 2024Help us provide all New Yorkers with a healthy meal this holiday season. Last year, we served nearly 15,000 families turkeys and holiday food packages. This year, we're aiming for more than 16,000 families.
NewsFunding for Community Food Connection Program Saved!
Thanks to our collective advocacy efforts across the emergency feeding network, funding for the Community Food Connection Program (CFC) will no longer be cut in half under the budget deal reached by NYC Mayor Eric Adams and the city council a few weeks ago. The $112 billion budget for this fiscal year will maintain full funding of CFC at roughly $57 million for the program, that supports 500 emergency food providers across the city. This will ensure that the more than one million New Yorkers facing food insecurity can continue to feed themselves and their families.
NewsHangry for Change Episode 5
We are thrilled to announce that Episode 5 of WSCAH’s Hangry for Change podcast is now available online! This episode, titled "Nourishing the Newest New Yorkers", delves into the impact of the recent influx of 160,000 asylum seekers to NYC, with Manhattan and Queens now home to about 70% of them.