Food for the Soul:
The Official Blog of Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen
Improving our Technology at Holy Apostles
At Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry, we’re always trying to find ways to streamline our systems and make life easier for our guests. This year, we started an initiative to improve our check-in process for our Food Pantry. Until recently, when guests...
Holy Apostles’ Staff Responds to The New York Times
This month, you might have seen Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen mentioned in a New York Times article. The article detailed the life of Martial Simon, the man accused of shoving Michelle Go in front of a subway train. While the article states that Martial Simon was...
Guest Spotlight: Saida
At Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen & Food Pantry, we know that each guest that visits us has their own story. One guest who we've known for a long time is Saida. Saida has lived in Midtown Manhattan for 45 years, and for the last three years, she's been a regular guest...
Spotlight on our Warming Center
On nights when the temperature in New York City dips below 32 degrees, a different sort of community forms at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen: a group of guests who typically sleep on the streets or in a shelter rest here overnight. Starting in 2019, we partnered with New...
Donor Spotlight: The Jerome L. Greene Foundation
At Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry, we rely on a network of individuals, companies, foundations, and other nonprofits to provide food and essential services to our neighbors. We’re highlighting one of those partners who makes the work that we do possible:...
Good Corporate Citizen: Starbucks
Our friends at Starbucks have been long-time partners of Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen. Through bringing in groups to volunteer and delivering delicious coffee to our staff and volunteers, Starbucks has been supporting our mission for years. We are excited to announce...
Good Corporate Citizen: Stuart Weitzman
At Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, we know it takes a community to make sure that all our neighbors have access to food and the other resources they need. Our Good Corporate Citizen program allows businesses and corporations, specifically those whose offices are based in...
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
This winter, many of our neighbors in Chelsea have joined us at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen to provide cold weather essentials to our guests and to those living on the streets of New York. Our partners have hosted clothing drives and purchased essential items like...
Spotlight on our Food Pantry
When we first expanded our Food Pantry back in 2020, no one expected it to grow the way it has. We couldn’t have anticipated the extreme need this program sees – this January, we’ve seen an average of 700 families and individuals visiting the Food Pantry each week....
New Year’s Resolutions at Holy Apostles
To round out the end of 2021, we asked some of our staff and volunteers what their New Year’s resolutions are as we head into 2022. Here’s what they had to say: Some of our community has personal goals they’re striving for in 2022. Jay, our Manager of Social...
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