• Hunger Prevention
• Homelessness Prevention
• Workforce Development

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Celebrating 30 years of
Partnering with our COMMUNITY
to achieve
STABILITY
for our
NEIGHBORS
in need.
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TRENTON:
123 East Hanover St.
Trenton, NJ 08608
ph: 609-396-9355
fax: 609-396-5692

STORE HOURS:
Monday – Friday
9am – 12 noon
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE:
M – TH, 9am – noon
W, 9am – noon & 2 – 4pm
OFFICE HOURS:
M – F, 9am – 5pm

Princeton:

Nassau Presbyterian
61 Nassau St.
Princeton, NJ 08542
609-921-2135
PANTRY / OFFICE HOURS:
M – Th 1:30 - 4pm

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Hunger Prevention

Keeping healthy foods within reach

We assist more than 1,300 Trenton area households and more than 200 Princeton area households with food each month. In addition, each month about 120 people who are homebound receive a home delivery of food from volunteer church groups. These teams of caring volunteers deliver the food to disabled or elderly people who receive a smile and a friendly visit with their delivery.

Our Food Program prevents hunger and promotes good health by keeping nutritious fresh and shelf-stable foods accessible to low-income people in Mercer county. Fresh produce and breads come from local growers through Community Food Bank of NJ and retailers such as Whole Foods Market, Trader Joe's, and Italian Peoples Bakery. Shelf-stable foods come from drives coordinated by partner congregations, schools, civic groups such as Yes We CAN!, from our relationship with Mercer Street Friends Food Bank, in-kind and voucher donations as well as purchases ShopRite and McCaffrey's Supermarkets. Our Friday morning fresh air farmers market distributes in-season produce to more than 200 households each month.

Those who receive food from our client-choice store and pantry include:

• people of all backgrounds with many Spanish-speaking people
• elderly and disabled people with incomes from $500 to 800 per month
• working families with children with one or two parents with incomes ranging from $800 to $2500 a month
• individuals or families receiving assistance of $140 to $500 per month

Our community is strengthented by our diversity of volunteers from congregations and schools and the surrounding neighborhood, large corporations and small businesses, community and civic organizations, and customers, community service workers and welfare-to-work participants. Our welfare-to-work program Harvesting Hope offers on-the-job training in our food store for participants sharpening their skills and job search marketability for the retail and food service sectors.

In collaboration with the Rutgers Extension Service we offer a weekly nutrition class for our food customers. The six-week course educates up to 15 people at a time in making healthful food choices and preparing nutritious meals with recipes to try at home.