Feeding and empowering those we serve to move beyond the lines of poverty.
ACHIEVMENTS
2010 ~ Executive Director appointed as Advisory Board Member to Food Bank for NYC.
2010 ~ Established POS Electronic Food Stamp screening and application Center.
2010 ~ Awarded Community Service Excellence Award by Food Bank for New York City.
2009 ~ Established Client Choice Pantry model for food distribution.
2008 ~ Created Partnership with St. John’s Bread/Robin Hood implementing ETO database qualifying and counseling clients on social service programs.
2007 ~ Created Partnership with Trader Joe’s, Rego Park .
2007~ Expansion of Vitamin Program to include adult vitamins and supplements.
2007 ~ Awarded Volunteer Group Of The Year from Terence Cardinal Cook Health Care Ctr.
2006 ~ Created Partnership with Care to Knit.
2006 ~ Created Partnership with Penny Harvest/Common Cents Student Leaders.
2005 ~ Created Annual Back to School Program supplying backpacks and supplies..
2005 ~ Created Partnership with State Farm Insurance of Long Island, NY.
2004 ~ Accepted as a NYC Emergency Food Pantry with EFAP.
2004 ~ Created Partnership with Nourish America supplying monthly children’s vitamins.
2004 ~ Created Partnership with New York Cares initiating the Winter Coat Program; providing new and gently used winter coats.
2004 ~ Created Partnership with World Vision enhancing existing programs.
2004 ~ Created Partnership with Hope on Wheels enhancing existing programs.
2004 ~ Awarde Certificate of Honor by Queens Borough President Helen Marshall for services provide through The Rounds Program to the mentally/physically challenged.
2003 ~ Phillip Morris purchased TRFNY cargo van.
2003 ~ Phillip Morris funded the construction of our on-site Pantry.
2003 ~ Grand opening on-site food pantry.
2003 ~ Created Partnership with Herr’s Chips.
2003 ~ Created the Healthy Snack Program.
2002 ~ Created Partnership with Gold’s Gym, Howard Beach.
2002 ~ Expansion and relocation of TRFNY to a larger facility in Richmond Hill , Queens.
2002 ~ Established membership with Food Bank for New York City.
2002 ~ Created Partnership with John Thiessen’s Toys for Sick Children.
2002 ~ Created Partnership with Verrazano Brooklyn Rotary Club.
2000 ~ Expansion of Under the Boardwalk to include Oceanview Adult Home, Brooklyn .
1999 ~ Initiation of Under the Boardwalk, Movable Food Outreach to Coney Island Brooklyn.
1998 ~ Received 501c3 exemption status.
1997 ~ Created Holiday Gift Giving Program, providing toys, personal care items, clothing.
1996 ~ Created Movable Feast providing meals to soup kitchens in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.
1995 ~ Created Street Relief Mobile Food Outreach in Rufus King Park in Jamaica , Queens.
1994 ~ Expansion of the Rounds Program to include long term care facilities, The Fineson Centers, Queens and Housing Works, Manhattan.
1992 ~ Expansion of the Rounds Program to include a long term care facility caring for infants/children living with HIV/AIDS, Incarnation Children’s Center, Manhattan.
1991 ~ The River Fund New York, Inc. was founded and initiated the Rounds Program, providing baked goods and gifts to residents of a long term health care facility, Terence Cardinal Cooke, Manhattan.
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The River Fund of New York provides food relief to the neediest New Yorkers: