Thank you to all those who have supported our NYU GPH X City Harvest collaboration!

With your contributions what have exceeded our goal with $1,030 which enabled us to purchase copious amounts of water, granola bars, and apples.

On Tuesday, March 5th, students, faculty, and staff gathered to pack a total of 425 nutritious snack packs. This is more than doubled our minimum goal of delivering 200 packs to City Harvest to feed NYC children! We can not that you all enough for making this possible. If you would like to see the event activities, click here to watch the recorded live stream.

Please continue to follow our Change the Imbalance Initiative where we will continue to host events such as these to encourage our GPH community to build upon their research and advocacy by engaging directly with the populations we aim to serve. Through volunteering time or donations, we as public health pioneers can put our skills to work to stand for those who can’t.

From today on, we consider you as being part of our community and urge you to take action where and when you can against the public health issues that impact our world.

Did you know that 1 in 6 children struggles with hunger?

There are 8.6 million people in New York City.

Of those 8.6 million, 2.3 million are struggling with hunger.

Of that 2.3 million, 750,000 of them are children. (Feeding America, 2016)

New York City has made strides towards providing children with lunches in the public school system, but this isn’t enough. There are still thousands of children that aren’t receiving the recommended amount of nutritious food. With your donation we have been able to reach about 40% of our goal to feed 200 or more children.

In order to reach this goal, we ask that you continue to support us by spreading the word to your friends, family, and colleagues. Let them know that we are accepting monetary donations on our crowdfunding page as well as in-kind donations of apples, boxed water, and nut-free granola bars! These items can be dropped off at the GPH Student Space at 726 Broadway, 7th Floor.

Thank you for helping the GPH community do it's part in taking action against hunger in NYC.