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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a proposal to establish the New York State Cares + Baby2Baby Diaper Bank as part of the 2021 Women s Agenda. Through a partnership with Baby2Baby, a national nonprofit that provides basic essentials for children under the age of 18, 20 million donated diapers will be made available to New York s Emergency Feeding Programs for distribution to food banks throughout the state at no cost to New York families. COVID-19 has piled challenge after challenge onto hardworking New York families, including the ability to afford the products they need to care for their children,
Governor Cuomo said. Even before the pandemic, an astonishing one in three families struggled to cover the cost of diapers, and the pandemic has only exacerbated this issue. As we begin laying the groundwork to rebuild in a post-COVID world we must find ways to level the playing field and reduce the burdens this virus has placed on families
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Sen. George Borrello and Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz distribute food to local residents earlier this month in Queens.
State Sen. George Borrello was taking a page from U.S. Rep. Tom Reed’s playbook. In order to make things happen, do it collaboratively and for the greater good.
In this instance, it was a perfect and unlikely match. Republican and upstate representative Borrello teamed with a downstate Democrat in Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz to work on a measure that would establish a permanent program for distributing surplus agricultural products to food banks, similar to the Nourish New York model.
01/27/2021 | News release | Distributed by Public on 01/27/2021 14:16
Extension of Partnership with HelloFresh for Veterans
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the extension of a partnership between the State of New York and leading meal kit company, HelloFresh, focused on delivering free meal kits to Veterans and military families in New York City who are presently confronting food insecurity. Since establishing this partnership in July 2020, HelloFresh has provided more than 200,000 nutritious meals to Veterans and military families in New York City who are facing food insecurity due to COVID-19. Now, New York and HelloFresh are extending this collaboration through the second quarter of 2021, ensuring that Veterans and military families in New York City will continue to receive these nourishing meals throughout the challenging months ahead. This partnership was made possible through collaboration with The Campaign Against Hunger, the New York City Department of Veterans Ser
Jan 23, 2021
With the pandemic creating levels of food insecurity not seen since the Great Recession, state Senator George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, and Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz, D-Queens, have joined forces on a measure that would establish a permanent program for distributing surplus agricultural products to food banks, similar to the Nourish New York model.
The Nourish New York initiative was launched in April 2020, in response to the surge of people in need at food banks across the state, as well as the hardships facing farmers affected by supply chain disruptions. With an initial $25 million in state funding, the program directed the purchase of food and products from upstate farms and food producers for distribution to food banks across the state. Another $10 million was allocated to the program in late October to sustain the program through the end of the year. One such beneficiary of the program, an interfaith human service agency named Chautauqua Rural Ministry, reported