The Northern New York Community Foundation will invest $30,000 in local food pantries and soup kitchens in Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties this coming year. The board-approved grant will …
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The Northern New York Community Foundation will invest $30,000 in local food pantries and soup kitchens in Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties this coming year.
The board-approved grant will help enhance the offerings provided at community food pantries, thrift stores and soup kitchens in the region. The Foundation provides annual support to organizations operating with an official partnership with the Food Bank of Central New York.
Close to 40 organizations will receive funding through this grant.
“Because of the incredible generosity of Community Foundation donors, we are able to make a broad-based impact in a very meaningful way across our entire service area again this year,” said Rande S. Richardson, Foundation executive director. “It is one of the grants we make each year that has the greatest reach and positively affects the lives of many,” he said.
The organizations receiving a portion of the grant are:
St. Lawrence County
• Canton Neighborhood Center Food Pantry
• Church and Community Program, Canton
• Colton-Pierrepont-Parishville Center Pantry
• Free Community Meal Soup Kitchen, Star Lake
• Free Will Meal Program Soup Kitchen, Canton
• Gouverneur Neighborhood Center Food Pantry
• Grasse River Food Pantry, Russell
• Hammond Food Pantry
• Massena First United Methodist Church Soup Kitchen
• Massena Neighborhood Center Food Pantry
• Norfolk-Raymondville Food Pantry
• Potsdam Neighborhood Center Food Pantry
• Richville Baptist Chapel Food Pantry
• Salvation Army, Ogdensburg
• St. James Outreach Center Food Pantry, Gouverneur
• St. Vincent de Paul of Massena Food Pantry
• Star Lake Neighborhood Center Food Pantry
• Tri-Town Community Services Food Pantry, Winthrop