• Weekend Backpack Program
• Finding Solutions
• Summer Food Service Program

Out network includes over 500 community-based, nonprofit member agencies, which range from soup kitchens and food pantries to community residences to shelters to child care and senior programs. From our own outreach work with those agencies as well as the results of Hunger in America 2006, we have learned of their frustration in obtaining vital information for their clients and consumers. They have told us that they lack both the resources and the time necessary to research the details of many important programs and services available to them and the people they serve.

The solution: Island Harvest will host monthly workshops to provide technical assistance to our network of community-based organizations, using a Train-the-Trainer model. These workshops will be open to all members of our agency network and will cover a variety of topics that relate to the critical issue of hunger, like:

• Accessing Food Stamps.

• Nutrition - making healthy choices with limited funds.

• Identifying ways to lower non-food monthly expenses.

• Important facts about safe food handling and health.

• Information on affordable housing issues.

• Health insurance programs.

Multi-lingual resource materials will be made available for distribution to member agencies and the people they serve.

We extend special thanks to Bethpage Federal Credit Union, Long Island Community Foundation and others for generously supporting this important project.