We Are Not Afraid Community Resource Center
Founded in 1823, St. Mary's (now called We Are Not Afraid Community Resource Center) is a faith based, non-sectarian community service center. They host a shelter, food pantry, medical clinic, hot meal program and mobile soup kitchen. Assisted by community volunteers, shoppers select three days’ worth of food for their families from their client-choice pantry. The Outreach Soup Kitchen volunteers prepare 80-100 lunches for hungry and homeless people on the streets and in Harlem-area parks. They also deliver meals by car or on foot and inform people about other free services offered through the church, such as the medical and dental clinic and the free Friday night movie.
- Year
- 2022
- Purpose
- The CCS grant will help provide more fresh and frozen fruit, vegetables, dairy, and meat options, and improve the quality of food items, specifically the meat and dairy items.
- Amount
- $12,000.00
- Year
- 2021
- Purpose
- The grant will support the EW Food Programs, providing fresh and frozen fruit, vegetables, dairy and meat items offerings to clients in need.
- Amount
- $10,000.00
- Year
- 2020
- Purpose
- The CCS grant supports the program, From Surviving to Thriving by cultivating community power in Manhattanville by improving the quality of the meat and cheese served; consolidating referral system both digitally and on paper; deepen case management support for community leaders and increase their ability to access information. With COVID19, their pantry, soup kitchen, and mobile soup kitchen operations are open and will continue to expect a large upswing in clientele averaging a total of 650 clients per week, which includes those newly filing for unemployment and in need of food relief.
- Amount
- $10,000.00
- Year
- 2019
- Purpose
- Supported We Are Not Afraid Community Resource Center (formerly St. Mary's Episcopal Church) direct services programming by providing 4,000 hot and nutritious meals each month. Through their Monday Client Choice-Food Pantry, they served an average of 2 meals to 400 households that had about 3 people per household. Their Friday Hot Meal-Movie Night and Saturday Outreach-Mobile Soup Kitchen served 1 meal to approximately 425 households that had about 1 person per household. CCS funding also paid for the cost of their food inventory as well as stipends to essential community volunteers when other grant partnerships could not.
- Amount
- $7,000.00