The Food Bank For New York City, a member of America's Second Harvest, The Nation's Food Bank Network, was founded in 1983 to coordinate the procurement and distribution of food donations from manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and government agencies to organizations providing free food to the city's hungry. It provides 68 million pounds of food annually to more than 1,000 emergency and community food programs throughout the five boroughs of New York City - including soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters, low-income daycare centers, Kids Cafes and senior, youth, rehabilitation and outreach centers. The Food Bank helps provide 250,000 free meals a day for New Yorkers who otherwise would go hungry, (largely women and children, the elderly, people with disabilities and the working poor). Today, the Food Bank For New York City is one of the largest food banks in the country and a leading distributor of free fresh produce.

City Harvest, a non-profit organization founded in 1982, is the world's first and New York City's only food rescue program. It is dedicated to feeding hungry men, women and children throughout New York City. Each week, City Harvest helps more than 260,000 hungry New Yorkers find their next meal, through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions. This year, City Harvest will collect 20 million pounds of excess food from all segments of the food industry, including restaurants, grocers, corporate cafeterias, manufacturers, and farms, and deliver it to over 600 community food programs.

Founded in 1981 by Gael Greene and James Beard, Citymeals-on-Wheels raises private funds to ensure no homebound elderly New Yorker will ever go a day without food or human company. It funds 85 community-based agencies that bring weekend, holiday, emergency and weekday meals to homebound elderly New Yorkers who can no longer shop or cook for themselves. Citymeals also serves a supper meal to over 1,700 of the poorest, frailest and most isolated.

The Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen is committed to feeding the hungry, comforting the afflicted, seeking justice for the homeless, and counseling and providing a sense of hope and opportunity to those in need. What began as a temporary relief effort in 1982 has grown enormously; today the Soup Kitchen serves over 1,100 meals each weekday.

Founded in 1983, the NYCCAH's original mission was to "coordinate the activities of the emergency food providers in the city so that issues can be identified, prioritized and addressed effectively." Though its aims have expanded and evolved over the last two decades - it has strengthened advocacy and legislative efforts and now provides national service participants to emergency food providers - food access for all New Yorkers remains the Coalition's animating goal.