EMERGENCY FOOD AND OPERATIONS SUPPORT ASSISTANCE

The Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program provides assistance for food, operating costs, food service equipment, food safety and sanitation supplies, and nutrition technical assistance to nonprofit Emergency Feeding Programs (EFPs: soup kitchens, food pantries & emergency shelters) throughout New York State. Seed Grants are also available to provide start-up funds or to support new initiatives that can provide an effective service and have a potential for serving under-served areas.

· Applications for assistance are available annually through regional food banks or the United Way of New York City (UWNYC) for food operations support (i.e., operating costs such as staff, utilities, disposables, food transportation, and rent), food service equipment and special project Seed Grants. With the exception of HPNAP funded donated foods, food bank and UWNYC membership is not required to receive HPNAP assistance.

· EFPs that received HPNAP food and/or operations support assistance in the previous year will automatically receive applications and need not contact their regional food bank or the United Way of New York City (UWNYC).

· EFPs that did not receive HPNAP assistance in the previous year must request a food or operations support (for operating costs and food service equipment) or Seed Grant application from a regional food bank or UWNYC.

· Food service equipment can be requested as part of Operations Support applications available from a regional food bank or UWNYC; HPNAP no longer issues separate capital equipment applications.

· Agencies wishing to transfer and/or receive available food service equipment should contact their regional food bank or UWNYC.

· Seed Grant applications for assistance up to $30,000 are available to provide start-up funds or to support new initiatives that can provide an effective service and have potential of serving under-served areas.

Due dates for returning completed applications to a food bank or United Way of New York City will be identified on the applications from these organizations.

Contact a regional food bank or the United Way of New York City now to request information

regarding HPNAP food, operations support/food service equipment and/or Seed Grant applications.

Nutrition Resource Manager

Catholic Charities of the

Southern Tier

945 County Route 64

Elmira NY 14903

Counties: Broome, Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins,

Nutrition Resource Manager

Food Bank of Central NY

6970 Schuyler Road

East Syracuse NY 13057

Counties: Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Herkimer, Jefferson, St Lawrence, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego

Nutrition Resource Manager

Food Bank of Western NY

91-95 Holt Street

Buffalo NY 14206

Counties: Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Niagara

Nutrition Resource Manager

FOODLINK, INC.

56100 West Avenue

Rochester NY 14611

Counties: Allegany, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, Wyoming, Yates

Nutrition Resource Manager

Food PATCH

358 Saw Mill River Road

Millwood NY 10546

County: Westchester

Nutrition Resource Manager

Regional Food Bank of

Northeastern NY

965 Albany-Shaker Road

Latham, NY 12110

Counties: Albany, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton, Montgomery, Orange, Otsego, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Sullivan, Ulster, Warren, Washington

Nutrition Resource Manager

Long Island Cares, Inc.

P.O. Box 1330

Brentwood NY 11717-0706

Counties: Nassau, Suffolk

Nutrition Resource Manager

Food for Survival

355 Food Center Drive

Bronx NY 10474

Nutrition Resource Manager

United Way of New York City

99 Park Avenue

New York NY 10016

Nutrition Resource Manager

United Way of New York City

99 Park Avenue

New York NY 10016