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Hello neighbors! We’re so proud to be part of a community that supports one another. Here at the Pantry, volunteers show up every day to organize a wide range of tasks including pick-ups, deliveries, and donations. This week, we’ve distributed food and other resources to help over 450 people (families, new clients, and home deliveries).Continue reading “October 6, 2021”

To help feed our neighbors—this week we provided food to467 people, including our monthly evening hours—we rely on donations of food and money,volunteers devoted to helping others, and the support ofFeeding Westchester. This food bank sources and distributes food and otherresources to 225 food pantries, soup kitchens, schools,shelters, residential programs, and mobile food distributions intheContinue reading “September 29, 2021”

What makes a community? We see it every week at the Dobbs Ferry Food Pantry. Our amazing volunteers take pride in arranging each table with love, wanting our clients to feel like they are at a farmers market. The bonds are strong between the volunteers and this community in need.  They know the volunteers byContinue reading “September 22, 2021”

Today our numbers were up over recent weeks – we served 126 families, with 38 deliveries and in-person pickups for 88 households, most of them seemingly in a very busy first half hour. Our enthusiastic and energetic teens were back in the classroom, which left us older volunteers to do more shlepping and our familiesContinue reading “September 15, 2021”

This week we treated the 98 families we fed to a gourmet tasting prepared by our newest volunteer, Stephanie “Chefanie” Wright. Stephanie is a nutrition-focused Ayurvedic chef, founder of The Wright Methods and former Chef de Cuisine of the Assemblage. Here’s what Stephanie had to say about her experience at the Pantry – “We hadContinue reading “September 8, 2021”

September One and despite rain, heavy at times, the Dobbs Ferry Food Pantry served 98 families this week, representing 327 people including 38 deliveries. That’s 60 families who needed to stand in the rain for the shelf-stable food, fresh fruit and vegetables, bread, milk, cheese and cereal to put sufficient healthy food on the table.Continue reading “September 1, 2021”

Yesterday, despite the heat, we served a total of 173 families, 621 people, 59 of those were seniors. As it was the last Wednesday of the month, we were distributing food in the evening as well, a record 23 families showed up then. We continue to grow in numbers and only hope our donations canContinue reading “August 25, 2020”

What brought me to volunteering at the Pantry was my desire to give back to my community and help those in need. But what surprised me is that a big part of what keeps me coming back each week is the inspiration and energy I get from my fellow volunteers: neighbors of all ages andContinue reading “August 18, 2021”

Hey hey from the Food Pantry! Today, in sweltering heat and dealing with the overbearing sun, our volunteers serviced 123 families amounting to 431 people, and made 39 deliveries to families homes. This is an increase from last week and additionally, today we saw new families join and register for the pantry. We would likeContinue reading “August 11, 2021”

This week’s distribution on Wednesday, August 4th, fed 100 families, representing 363 individuals (including 41 deliveries).  We are grateful to all of you who contributed to the donation of food and supplies dropped off food this week at the Food Pantry, including: Ardsley United Methodist Church.  Our contact wheelman, Ken Stahn, had Pastor Calvin CollinsContinue reading “August 4, 2021”