Food and Supplies Resources
National Resources
Feeding America
Who: Anyone who is in need of food.
What: Feeding America is a United States–based nonprofit organization that is a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks that feed more than 46 million people through food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, and other community-based agencies.
Meals On Wheels + Affiliates
Who: Adults 60 and over.
What: Meals on Wheels is a program that delivers meals to individuals at home who are unable to purchase or prepare their own meals.
Phone: 888-998-6325
Greater Boston Area
Concerned To Go Out
Concerned To Go Out is a web-app built by developers in Boston to connect those willing to travel and deliver items during the COVID-19 outbreak to those who are concerned to go out, due to either physical or mental limitations
Contact: concernedtogoout@gmail.com
Food For Free COVID-19 Volunteer Response (Cambridge)
Who: Applicants must live in Cambridge, and because of a disability or impairment, be unable to use existing food pantries. Applicants must also qualify as low-income under HUD guidelines (less than $34,350 per year for one person).
What: Food for Free brings food to low-income Cambridge residents who are unable to access traditional food pantries due to illness or disability. Food for Free differs from meals-on-wheels programs because it brings groceries to people so that the recipients can cook their own food. It gives seniors and people with disabilities more control over their meals, while providing a supportive service that helps them to stay in their own homes..
Phone: 617-868-2900
Greater Boston Food Banks
Who: Anyone suffering from food insecurity.
What: A resource for finding and accessing food in your community, including through food banks.
Contact: 617-427-5200
Greater Boston Food Bank SNAP
Who: SNAP is for everyone—families, seniors, disabled, homeless, unemployed, employed, veterans, and active military. If you are within the income limits, you may be eligible.
What: GBFB also offers assistance with applications for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. SNAP benefits are put on an electronic card that is used like an ATM or bank card, and can be used at most supermarkets, convenience stores, and some farmers’ markets.
Contact: 617-598-5022
Massachusetts Mutual Aid Networks
Mutual Aid networks are set up in times of crisis to help neighborhoods with emergency response. This community-sourced google doc contains info for many neighborhoods in Massachusetts, including neighborhood point people, grocery information, lost income support, and more.
California
GetCalFresh.org
Who: Anyone applying to CalFresh (SNAP California food stamps)
What: CalFresh is California’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), often known as food stamps. GetCalFresh.org helps you apply & book an appointment online easily. They are an authorized California application assistance tool.
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
Who: Anyone suffering from food insecurity.
What: A resource for finding and accessing food in your community, including through food banks.
Where: 1734 East 41st Street Los Angeles, CA 90058
Contact: 323.234.3030
New York City
City Meals
Who: People 60+, unable to prepare nutritious meals or have no one to do so for you, able to live safely at home if services are provided to you, and physically or mentally incapacitated and in need of some assistance
What: Hand delivering meals to New Yorkers.
Contact: 212-687-1234 or info@citymeals.org
Invisible Hands
Who: Anyone in need of a food delivery in New York and New Jersey. Invisible Hands will delivery the food and subsidize up to $30 of the food costs.
What: Safe, free deliveries for the most at-risk community members facing COVID-19.
Contact: 732-639-1579 or InvisibleHandsDeliver@gmail.com
Greater Seattle Area
Mutual Aid Solidarity Network
Who: Anyone, in particular people who are sick, disabled, quarantined without pay, elderly, undocumented, queer, Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color -- including those displaced from Seattle to the nearby areas.
What: An all volunteer group coordinating food and supply drop offs to people’s front doors.
Contact: covid19mutualaidsea@gmail.com
Greater St. Louis Area
Operation Food Search
Who: Anyone suffering from food insecurity.
What: A resource for finding and accessing food in your community. Operation Food Search distributes more than 35 million dollars worth of food and necessities to 330 community partners in 31 Missouri and Illinois counties and in the city of St. Louis.
Contact: 314-726-5355 x1 or TEXT your ZIP CODE to (785) 503-3310
STL Food Bank
Who: Anyone suffering from food insecurity.
What: A resource for finding and accessing food in your community.
Contact: Missouri SNAP Outreach Coordinator Melissa Melton 314-528-8622 | mmelton@stlfoodbank.org, Illinois Melanie Hager 618-307-9541 | mhager@stlfoodbank.org