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Susan
Fowler,
Assistant
Manager,
North Shore
Healthy
Neighborhoods;
Jennifer
Szapiro,
Senior
Manager,
Institutional
Giving;
Diane
Senerchia,
Executive
Director,
Northfield
Bank
Foundation;
Lourdes
Hernandez-Cordero,
Associate
Director of
Community
Partnerships;
(below)
Billy
Contreras,
Volunteer,
Trinity
Lutheran
Church; Rev.
John Rocco
Carlo,
Senior
Pastor,
Christian
Pentecostal
Church;
(below)
Miguel
Alvarez,
Volunteer,
Trinity
Lutheran
Church;
Sonny
Treschetta,
Volunteer,
Christian
Pentecostal
Church
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On Tuesday,
August 7th,
City
Harvest’s
Hub and
Spoke
program on
Staten
Island
received a
grant of
$25,000 from
The
Northfield
Bank
Foundation,
which
promotes
charitable
purposes
within the
communities
in which
they
operate.
The event,
which took
place at
Christian
Pentecostal
Church
(900-910
Richmond
Road), had
13 emergency
food
programs in
attendance
and
distributed
an
additional
24,165
pounds of
nutritious
food into
the
community.
City
Harvest’s
Hub and
Spoke events
are designed
to quickly
distribute
tens of
thousands of
pounds of
nutritious
food to
emergency
food
pantries and
soup
kitchens in
New York
City
throughout
the year.
The grant
from The
Northfield
Bank
Foundation
will be used
specifically
to provide
additional
fresh fruits
and
vegetables
and other
perishable
foods to
City
Harvest’s
network of
food
pantries and
soup
kitchens on
Staten
Island. Hub
and Spoke is
part of City
Harvest’s
Healthy
Neighborhoods
community
partnership
program,
designed to
improve
healthy food
access and
knowledge in
five New
York City
neighborhoods.
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