This summer, our team surveyed our Soup Kitchen and Pantry guests to better understand who visits us and how Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen can serve our community. Through interviews with our guests, we gained a deeper understanding of the needs and the background of...
When our culinary team sits down to plan out the meals they’ll serve, they have to ask a lot of questions: What ingredients were donated this week? How can we stretch our budget to purchase additional items to create a well-rounded meal? And, most important, how...
Last week, our partners at Centennial Properties joined us at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen for a Day of Service. Their generosity, of both time and resources, and their dedication to our mission, helped us to feed hundreds of New Yorkers struggling with hunger,...
I didn’t know at the time, but when I was a little girl, my mother Mary, often struggled to put food on the table for my sister and me. You see, she grew up in poverty in rural Texas. For reasons I’ll never know, her parents removed her from school after she finished...
Our friends at Marriott recently joined us at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen for a Day of Service. Their generosity of time and dedication to our mission supports hundreds of New Yorkers struggling with hunger, homelessness, and other forms of hardship. Marriott employees...
Last week, our Mother’s Day Bake Sale culminated with the distribution of cookies. Some of our supporters picked up their cookies from the Soup Kitchen, while others took advantage of our service through DoorDash and United Way of New York City and had their cookies...
Our friends at Avenues: The World School are committed members of our community and in 2021, they were determined to find unique ways to give back. While their students are unable to volunteer in person due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, they found a new way to...
In this April Newsletter, Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen shares stories about our expansion of two major programs: our "Hearty Start" meal outreach program and our new-and-improved pantry program. In the newsletter, you'll meet our Meal Outreach Specialist and one of our...
Last week in the wake of the mass shooting in Atlanta, Georgia and the ongoing rise in violence and hatred against Asian Americans, Holy Apostles released the following statement: We stand in solidarity with the Asian American and Pacific Island (AAPI)...
The faculty, staff, and students at Avenues: The World School are committed supporters of Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen. Katrina Rowe, one of their 6th-grade teachers, wrote this article about her experience volunteering at and working with the Soup Kitchen. Thank you...