City Harvest rescues food from food establishments and businesses including restaurants, wholesalers, greenmarkets, bakeries, caterers, hospital and corporate cafeterias, as well as canned food drives.
SCHEDULED DONORS: Donors who consistently have 50 lbs. of food or more may be put on a truck route for weekly or daily pick-ups. For more information or to become a Scheduled Donor, please call 917.351.8700 and ask for our Customer Service Manager.
CALL-IN DONORS: Donors who occasionally have 50 lbs. or more of food can schedule a pick-up on an as-needed basis. If you have a donation of 50 lbs. or more that you would like picked up, please call 917.351.8731. After hours please leave this information in our Dispatch office voice mail box and we will call the next business day to arrange a pick-up.
STREET FLEET DONORS: Donors with less than 20 lbs. of food per pick-up may be a perfect fit for the Street Fleet program. Street Fleet matches volunteers on foot with donors and nearby community food programs (currently offered in Manhattan only). Please contact the Street Fleet Coordinators or call 917.351.8745, we will help you decide if this is the right match for you! Read about Street Fleet in the Christian Science Monitor.
For more information please see:
donating food | acceptable and non-acceptable foods for donation
