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DSS programs: SNAP and Community Food Connection (CFC)
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Jill Berry details two crucial programs administered by the Department of Social Services to address food insecurity: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Community Food Connection (CFC).
- SNAP helps approximately 1.8 million New Yorkers access nutritious food, including 550,000 children and 545,000 older adults.
- CFC funds over 700 food pantries and community kitchens across New York City's five boroughs.
- In FY '25, CFC served more than 21.5 million people (duplicated number) and distributed over 22 million pounds of food from July 2024 through January 2025.
Jill Berry
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The Department of Social Services is responsible for administering programs crucial uplifting food security.
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP, helps approximately 1,800,000 New Yorkers access nutritious food including approximately five and fifty thousand children and five forty five thousand older adults.
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The community food connection funds more than 700 food pantries and community kitchens across the five boroughs.
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Boroughs.
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CFC served more than 21,500,000 people, that's a duplicated number, in FY '25 from July 2024 through December 2024.
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The CFC model has created added flexibility for providers to distribute the mix of foods that best meet the needs of the communities they serve, including fresh certified proteins, and kosher certified foods among many other options.
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Formerly known as the emergency food assistance program or eFAP, CFC received 57,200,000.0 in funding for FY '25.
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From July 2024 through January 2025, CFC has distributed more than 22,000,000 pounds of food.