Welcome. We’re Neighbors Helping Neighbors The Dobbs Ferry Food Pantry is one of 60,000 pantries and meal programs that are part of the Feeding America network. That’s a whopping number, and it means that food pantries play an important role in communities across the country, especially in low-income areas that lack stores offering healthy, affordableContinue reading “August 2025”
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July 2025
Gettin’ by with Some Help from Our Friends Pantry volunteers love it when people in the community drop off donations of food and diapers on Wednesday mornings and take a minute to introduce themselves. Volunteers meet the most wonderful people while providing food for our neighbors in need. We’d like to meet more of ourContinue reading “July 2025”
May 2025
Here’s What Cuts in Federal Aid to Food Banks Looks Like at Our Pantry Our shelves were well-stocked before the USDA cut aid to Feeding Westchester and other food banks, which procure food then distribute to food pantries. At right, one of our shelves recently. This could be a story about a bunch of numbers:Continue reading “May 2025”
March 2025
Shames Jewish Community Center Delivers Huge Donation Rabbi Ron Symons, at left, senior director of Jewish engagement at the Shames Jewish Community Center in Tarrytown, wowed pantry volunteers Duke Coffey, at right, and co-director Vera Halpenny with the size and number of gift boxes for our clients. Four JCC staffers and a school bus wereContinue reading “March 2025”
February 2025
When a Community Comes Together, Great Things Can Happen It was a great day in Dobbs Ferry on Sunday, February 2, magical, even. Members of the community and nearby towns came to a 3-hour jazz concert at South Presbyterian Church to raise money for the food pantry, enabling us to keep buying healthy, nutritious foodContinue reading “February 2025”
January 2025
It’s the Most Generous Time of the Year December brought out the best in our community. And the Dobbs Ferry Food Pantry was the grateful recipient of its generosity. Contributions came to us in many forms. Christopher Galluzzo and the team from Sight & Sound were generous with their skills and created two videos aboutContinue reading “January 2025”
December 2024
Herding Turkeys and Pies With a Little Help from Our Friends It took more than one miracle to enable us to collect, store, move and distribute all that our generous donors showered down upon the Dobbs Ferry Food Pantry this year. Here are some of the many donor-heroes who made this Thanksgiving memorable for ourContinue reading “December 2024”
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