New York City Coalition Against Hunger is teaming up with other New York City AmeriCorps programs to participate in the first-ever National AmeriCorps Week. This inaugural event will consist of a full week of events and volunteer activities throughout the city that will be performed by current AmeriCorps and VISTA members, as well as alumni, grantees, and friends of AmeriCorps. ...read more

Anti-hunger advocates today praised New York City Council Member Eric Gioia for anchoring the New York City leg of the national Food Stamp Challenge, in which prominent Americans throughout the nation (including U.S. Reps. Jim McGovern and Jo Ann Emerson and Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski) are spending a week in which they will be eating only the amounts and types of food they would be able to buy if they were enrolled in the federal Food Stamp Program. ...read more

Anti-hunger advocates hailed the announcement that Governor Eliot Spitzer signed an executive order creating a New York State Council on Food Policy. ...read more

Anti-hunger advocates praised New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Council Speaker Christine Quinn for announcing three hunger and nutrition-related initiatives today. “These efforts can start taking a large bite out of the Big Apple’s hunger problem,” said Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, an umbrella group for the city’s more than 1,200 food pantries and soup kitchens. ...read more