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The Hunger Project

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CFHE's THE Hunger (THP) Project is a weekly meal delivery program for individuals experiencing food insecurity. THP outsources the production of all meals to local community eateries and restaurants that create dinner meal boxes for our residents. Our meals are described as a "hug in a box" composed of wholesome, hearty, and nutritious ingredients. Our meal program delivers fresh, warm meals to our senior population, homeless residents, and persons with disabilities.

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We address health and hunger issues in low-income and predominantly minority communities that are most commonly affected by a lack of healthy food options, unaffordability of healthy foods, and comprehensive wellness services.

Ujamaa Cafe

Ujamaa Cafe are cashless, grab-and-go, de-surveilled food access points that provide an innovative model for offering healthy food options to diverse patrons, sharing nutritional information, and supporting the local small business economy through strategic partnerships with food businesses and entrepreneurs.

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Fighting 'food apartheid,' NJ group stocks community refrigerators from Passaic to Philly

The Coalition for Food and Health Equity runs Ujamaa Cafe refrigerators in Passaic, Paterson, and three other towns, with plans for more .

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Eyewitness News New York Features Ujamaa Cafe & CFHE CEO

St. Luke's Food and Clothing Pantry Gets Community Fridge

PATERSON, NJ – Visitors to the St. Luke’s Baptist Church food pantry now have access to healthy, premade meals thanks to the installation of a mobile refrigerator by the Coalition of Food and Health Equity.

First COVID, now inflation. $52M program to feed NJ's hungry is keeping restaurants open

When New Jersey launched a pilot program in December 2020, the idea was to fight the pandemic-prompted economic downturn on two fronts.

Jersey City Group Gets State Funding to Continue Fight Against Food Insecurity

New Jersey Development Authority (NJEDA) Sustain & Serve NJ Program which is seeking to purchase five million meals from more than 430 restaurants statewide.

30 NEW JERSEY NONPROFITS TO RECEIVE $17.5 MILLION IN GRANTS THROUGH NEW PHASE OF NJEDA PROGRAM SUPPORTING RESTAURANTS AND FAMILIES IN NEED

TRENTON, N.J. (July 8, 2022) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) today announced plans to award grants totaling $17.5 million to 30 nonprofit organizations through Phase 3 of its successful Sustain & Serve NJ program. Sustain & Serve NJ provides eligible entities with grants to support the purchase of meals from New Jersey restaurants that have been negatively impacted by COVID-19 and the distribution of those meals at no cost to recipients. The additional $17.5 million in awards announced today brings total program funding to $52.5 million.

COVID crisis created opportunity to feed North Jersey's hungry and save local restaurants

COVID-19 was a massive disrupter, but for some, like Leeja Carter, the pandemic proved serendipitous — in her case to help minority-owned restaurants and the poor, hungry and elderly.

Carter's Coalition for Food and Health Equity, a Black- and woman-led nonprofit that places hunger within the larger context of racial health equity and promotes economic equity within historically marginalized communities, is rooted in 2020's economic tempests.

United Passaic Organization closes out May with Two Huge Events

(PASSAIC, NJ) -- On Saturday, May 21, United Passaic Organization hosted a National Community Action Month kick-off celebration and resource fair. Three days later, UPO hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its full-service food pantry - equipped with a community refrigerator and free Saturday meals from a food truck - at Mt Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church.

“I am so overjoyed because the residents of Passaic finally have a rebirth of UPO,” Hall said. “For over 41 years, UPO has been in the City of Passaic. To have this rebirth of innovative and creative resources is astonishing. It’s so refreshing to be a part of this.”

Passaic's new food pantry offers an innovative approach to defeating hunger

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Eyewitness News New York Features Ujamaa Cafe & CFHE CEO

Tony Yates of Eyewitness News ABC7 New York visited CFHE’s Ujamaa Cafe community refrigerator location at the Kismet of Kings to spotlight how the Ujamaa Cafe fridge program is addressing food insecurity and nutrition ...

Coalition Equity Launches Community Fridge at the Abramson Cancer Center in Philadelphia

Funded by the American Cancer Society, funds will support the program delivery, oversight, and evaluation of the Ujamaa Cafe community fridge at the Abramson Cancer Center located at the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

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