The Coalition's groundbreaking Emergency Food Action Center (EFAC) is one of the first programs in the nation to provide comprehensive technical assistance to food pantries and soup kitchens, helping these frontline agencies expand and diversify their services and become self-sustaining. All assistance is designed based on the requests and needs articulated by emergency food programs.

Providing assistance through workshops and one-on-one consultations, EFAC helps pantries and kitchens obtain more food and improve their operations with guidance in fundraising, financial management, job training and education, technology, customer service, program development, and business management.

EFAC also manages the Coalition's AmeriCorps*VISTA program, providing full-time skilled volunteers to feeding programs across the city, and helps coordinate the Coalition's Resource Toolkit.

For more information about EFAC's programs, or to request help for your emergency food program, please contact Joel Berg at 212-825-0028 x204.