Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger

The Campaign Against Hunger (formerly, Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger) operates one of the largest client-choice supermarket-style food pantries in the five boroughs, providing food to an average 30,000 people every month. Alongside their core mission of fighting hunger in central Brooklyn and the greater New York metropolitan area, they also work to address health issues like obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease that disproportionately affect their customer population. They do this by emphasizing healthy choices in the pantry, providing community education programs about nutrition and physical activity, providing support services like benefits outreach and health screenings, and growing fresh produce on in our own urban community garden. The pantry was one of the first to adopt the client-choice model, which gives customers the right to select pantry items based on their own needs and preferences, rather than receiving a pre-packed bag