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My husband and I were like, at least I can get unemployment, where there are five to 15 people that we know who aren't going to have that.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We thought the pandemic was going to be over in two weeks, so, we were like,' We'll spend this 10 grand and then we'll go back to work.' And that never happened.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
When you are food-insecure, you're not food-insecure just for a week and then you get food and then everything is better again, and so we wanted to make sure that we were a source of reliability.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We wanted to be able to do this in a way that was dignified and wasn't having people wait in a pantry line for four hours to wonder if they're even going to get food.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We knew that specifically families were going to be now out of work, but also not qualify for unemployment benefits or any othersufficient government aid, we really saw at face value that there were some serious inequities and issues within both food distribution and food access, not just in Queens, but across the country.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We created a registration form and put that out to four people that we knew and, within a week's time, we had over 1,000 people register forfree groceries at the height of the pandemic last year, our first week of grocery deliverieswe delivered 25 groceries, but then the next week we did 100 families and then 200. Within a month's time, we were delivering over 500 groceries weekly.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The way that [the nonprofit]model is set up is there's a handful of people who are on staff and then it's very much a volunteer-driven, and what we're working to do is make sure that we're not solely based on volunteers and we're really hiring and creating jobs from within the communities that we're serving as well, too. And that's both on a decision-making level, within the organization, in our volunteer team and our operations team across the board.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Regardless of what you pay, you get the same exact food and the same exact quality as somebody who paying a different price or is not paying anything, so by creating this type of model,we're allowing folks who don't have money to pay for their groceriesto be able to get really good fresh ingredients that are coming from local farms. But if you have the money to pay $35 then great, you do that and then you get to help subsidize this work and this new way of creating access for everybody within our community.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
When we're talking about scaling, the immediate reaction that often people go to is, 'Oh, this is a great thing,everybody deserves groceries,we should make this availableacross the country.' And I think that's true, but I think the way that that's done is important. And for us, that means creating this model that's sustainable, that can be then replicated and given to communities across New York and across any other state in the country, so that we can prove that this new way ofdoing things is possible and allows people to trust and have faith to be able to come away from this old model of street charity and traditional nonprofit to start working in a different way.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
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