Whether you're looking for assistance for your family or educational materials about hunger, please consider these resources:
- America's Grow-A-Row
The group provides food for the hungry through volunteer efforts involving local farmers, healthy foods, and the "gleaning" of farm fields for produce.
- The Community FoodBank of New Jersey
The food bank works to alleviate the direct effects of hunger and poverty in New Jersey.
- Elijah's Promise
Based in New Brunswick, Elijah's Promise helps low-income people in the central New Jersey community with everything from a culinary school to a soup kitchen.
- Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
The program is designed to help limited-resource families improve their diets and nutrition practices.
- End Hunger NJ
This website provides tools, resources, and advice for families seeking food assistance, as well as for organizations and individuals looking to help.
- Farmers Against Hunger
The group collects fresh fruits and vegetables from New Jersey farms and distributes them to food banks and soup kitchens.
- Feeding America
The nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity, the organization includes a network of more than 200 food banks in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
- Highland Park Community Food Pantry
A volunteer-run organization for the residents of Highland Park. In 2008 the pantry distributed over 3,000 bags of food.
- Mercer Street Friends Food Bank
Mercer Street Friends is a Quaker-affiliated, nonsectarian human care organization providing compassionate and practical solutions to the problems of poverty and health.
- New Jersey Anti-Hunger Coalition
The mission of the New Jersey Anti-Hunger Coalition (NJAHC) is to end hunger in New Jersey through education, advocacy and activism.
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Learn about SNAP, formerly the food stamp program, which helps low-income people and families buy the food they need for good health.
- Visions, Volume 20, Issue 3 [PDF]
The current issue of Visions, a publication from the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, includes an article on "Practical Ways to Trim High Grocery Prices."
- WIC: Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children
WIC provides supplemental nutritious foods to pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, as well as infants and children up to the age of five. WIC services include nutrition education and counseling, breastfeeding promotion and support, immunization screening, and health care referrals.
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