Thank you to the New Haven Independent for this coverage of local nonprofit and community response to the current SNAP emergency. If you would like to learn about local nonprofits helping local communitieis and/or donate to them visit: https://givegreater.cfgnh.org/search?page=1&search_term=Food
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Additional local food resources: https://www.getconnectednewhaven.com/services/food/
CitySeed Steps Up Amid SNAP Lapse
Abel Sauri traveled from East Haven to Wooster Square Saturday to buy fresh produce with the help of a CitySeed-boosted benefit for food stamp recipients. He was one of more than 130 customers who turned to the farmers market nonprofit for help amid a government-shutdown-induced lapse of the nation’s largest food aid program...
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2025/11/03/cityseed-steps-up-amid-snap-lapse/
Hundreds Line Up For SNAP-Gap Help (Fair Haven Community Healthcare)
Michelle Robertson spent two hours in Fair Haven on Monday morning waiting for a $75 grocery voucher, as she needs to free enough cash to pay for the medications that treat her osteoporosis and cancer...
Emergency Food Fund Launched; SNAP Recipient Readies For Hard Month (United Way of Greater New Haven)
Over the last six years, Angela Roman has only needed to pick up food from St. Bernadette’s Food Pantry towards the end of the month. Without the federal food assistance that she and her two young daughters rely on, starting on Saturday, she’ll have to go at the beginning.
Pols, Food Pantry Leaders Press Feds To Full Fund SNAP (Christian Community Action)
Cheryl Rabe showed up to Christian Community Action (CCA) on Monday to pick up a bag of groceries to help make up for the $169 per month in federal aid that she did not receive on Saturday thanks to a government-shutdown-induced pause on food stamps.
Food Pantries Brace For SNAP Cutoff (Loaves & Fishes, Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen)
With the country’s largest food assistance program set to lapse on Saturday, two local food pantries — Loaves & Fishes and the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK) — are expecting to feed at least 150 more families than usual next week.
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2025/10/28/food-pantries-brace-for-snap-cutoff/
Learn more about local agency efforts, where you can donated and how you can help at the top pf this post.
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