I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified. So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life. Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.

Stop giving your money to billionaires. You can do it.

Your support allows @evlovesnyc.bsky.social to make these gourmet-inspired meals which we take and personally deliver to the Astoria Food Pantry. Alone we can do so little. Together we can accomplish so much www.evloves.nyc @protagonistsoccer.bsky.social

evloves.networkforgood.com/events/91864... Come and show off your mastery of arcane facts WHILE making $$ to feed New Yorkers. 10/15 at Chelsea Bell

evloves.networkforgood.com/events/89288... Come spin your wheels on August 21 with EVLovesNYC. @nyintfc.bsky.social

Hey, look! It's our Cafewal project in the news! Thanks @documentedny.bsky.social and @rojeda.bsky.social for coming to see what we are doing alongside the newest New Yorkers, asylum seekers and migrants.

Please join us in the fight for freedom from poverty and hunger this weekend by donating to @evlovesnyc.bsky.social evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/224... #AstoriaFoodPantry

The bill adds $3.3 trillion in debt. That violates the statutory paygo law of 2010 that requires across-the-board sequestration cuts. Many accounts (like Social Security and some low-income programs) are exempted from that. But Medicare is not. Here's the breakdown:

Please watch @danfrompasco.bsky.social -- board member and chair of our political committee-- on the federal budget proposal and what it means for ALL New Yorkers.

A hungry city is not a safe city. A hungry city is a place where we have to lock up baby formula in cages in our grocery stores as people grow desperate for ways to feed their families. That’s not New York. —Emmy Brett, Director, Greenpoint Hunger Program

Running for office? Currently holding office? Come work in our kitchen and meet the New Yorkers you hope to represent. You'll see how your votes on policies and budgets can mean life or death to food-insecure people.

Thank you, Zohran Mamdani, for your Q&A with asylum seekers about your platform and political views at Cafewal this winter. You listened to human stories about the very real struggle so many New Yorkers face when trying to access basic human needs. We will hold you accountable for these words.

Hi friends. Food insecurity is a policy choice. It’s a non partisan issue and @evlovesnyc.bsky.social is committed to fighting against it. Whether it’s new NYers here to seek asylum in the face of harsh immigration crack downs, or a native NYer priced out of their home.

JOIN US! Perhaps recent hopeful NYC news inspires you to keep volunteering for something you care about. Perfect timing! Summer is the slowest time for volunteer signups (and donations, fwiw) at EVLovesNYC. Sign up at evolves.nyc and come join us. We’ll even let you play with knives.

council.nyc.gov/districts/ Find your city council person here and call their office to urge them to increase emergency food funding (CFC) in 2026. This food provides a lifeline for our neighbors and food insecurity is getting serious. Calling is an easy way to make a case for a kinder city

Another dispatch this one from 290 Broadway immigration court, where I watched government prosecutors dismiss deportation cases, only for ICE to detain people in the lobby below. www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/29/i...

Please donate to EVLovesNYC so we can feed people all over the city. Don’t wait until the end of the year — we can’t wait that long. The desperate demand for food, today and in the coming months, bids us to take on the work the government won’t do. evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/224... 1/3

MAGA may call the proposed budget that the House passed last week “big and beautiful” but it seems more “cruel and dangerous” to us. The budget cuts federal food assistance for 1.8 MILLION NEW YORKERS, INCLUDING A HALF MILLION NY CHILDREN. 2/3

This budget “efficiency” means that parents will skip meals to make sure their kids can eat. Older New Yorkers on fixed incomes will resort to less healthy but more affordable food options. And many more working New Yorkers have to turn to food banks like EVLovesNYC to get through the week. 3/3

Priorities

Tear apart fascism, Not families.

We feed everyone else who needs a hot meal, including kids and seniors and immigrants and that quiet lady in your building. No one in NYC should go hungry. Help us? Your $$= good food for neighbors. evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/224...

Great news: NY State will provide free meals to ALL public school students. www.nycfoodpolicy.org/governor-hoc...

@nyintfc.bsky.social Come play on our field!

Friday night plans= SORTED. Come and get it! evloves.networkforgood.com/events/85741...

Honestly? It's all there in the term 'mutual aid'-- helping YOU helps ME. Contributing to the community with hours or donations makes your life richer. Head to EVLoves.nyc to sign up!

Happy Volunteer Appreciation Week to all who celebrate. (We celebrate it EVERY WEEK!)

evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/250... Be a sport and support our run/fun/fundraiser collaboration with @nyintfc.bsky.social

Don't really know what we'd do without @danfrompasco.bsky.social and @rufus-hickok.bsky.social (and, tbh, all our devoted volunteers) to get the meals to where they're needed most.

There’s a lot of bullshit happening right now, and I can tell you from experience the best way to not fall into a pit of despair is by doing something. Come volunteer with us at EVLovesNYC: www.evloves.nyc/volunteer/ OR Donate: evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/242...

Grrr. Federal funding for food programs, housing, schools, and pretty much all services for income-challenged Americans is being cut to save billionaires from having to pay taxes. Get mad. Help EVLovesNYC help economically insecure New Yorkers. evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/224...

Even in St. Petersburg Florida, I’m repping @evlovesnyc.bsky.social

These are the good guys.

Mutual aid and admiration society! We love @nyintfc.bsky.social

Time to start building a hipper warm-weather wardrobe? We have new merch: a t-shirt collab with our DELIGHTFUL supporter #7thstreetburger ev-loves-nyc.myshopify.com/products/7th...

Unfortunately @evlovesnyc.bsky.social can’t provide anyone with housing, but we can and will continue to provide hot, fresh, nutrient packed meals to our communities. You can do more for the vulnerable than the billionaires in Washington by donating: evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/242...

We may have moved back to the East Village (hooray!), but we can't quit the friends we made during our stint in the West Village. Find our new distro on W. Houston St between Thompson and Sullivan, Sundays from 12 until the food runs out.♥️

Congrats to our @evlovesnyc.bsky.social Players of the Match against Hoboken F.C! Tom O’Carroll takes it for the reserves after burying the winning goal in our come-from-behind victory! 📷: @liamxwinn, Naoko Tanaka 🦁🦁🦁

Americans are going hungry under Trump. Food banks across the country — already strained by deep cuts to locally grown food programs — the U.S. Department of Agriculture is canceling $500 million in expected food deliveries, further disrupting aid as demand continues to grow.

Unreal ball in from Frizzi, deep free kick to back post to find Renato who makes it 2-1. Both of these guys biked to Montauk to raise funding for @evlovesnyc.bsky.social

As when the Adams administration came for our new neighbors in 2023, we will raise our voices against recent proposed restrictions on shelter stays. Join us in feeding and advocating for our neighbors. Push back against this cruelty. Volunteer, march, and donate what you can. WE TAKE CARE OF US.

A group of developmentally disabled adults from #AHRC NYC came to Cafewal to assemble suhoor kits for our Muslim friends. It was so much fun that they're coming back next week! Please help us provide 5000 breakfast kits to people in shelters this Ramadan evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/247...

Volunteer, Support, Do what you can. Because every bit helps. Because you make a difference In NYC. @evlovesnyc.bsky.social #AstoriaFoodPantry @pilotv.bsky.social @footballlibrettist.bsky.social @davidkilpatrick.bsky.social

This week, EVLovesNYC truly put the 'fun' into 'fundraiser' with our first (of many!)Trivia Night. Stay tuned for details of the next round. And it's always a good time to donate: evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/224...

This Ramadan, EVLovesNYC is raising $$ to provide 5,000 suhoor packages to food-insecure NYC Muslim neighbors. These breakfast kits include bfast bars, fruit, walnuts + dates, and bottled water that set people up for a day of fasting. Help us! evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/247...

Look for community in 2025. Find your friends & family who will stand with you. In their company, find comfort & support. & when you are ready to create & build, they will be with you. We recommend volunteering at @evlovesnyc.bsky.social & supporting @nyintfc.bsky.social NYC, we will prevail.

Still looking for a space where we can cook for NYC's food insecure citizens!

Our landlord is ending our lease 3/8. Know of any big kitchens that may work for a friendly+clean food bank on Sundays? Any ideas welcome: community centers, commercial kitchens in offices, churches, schools, restaurants closed on Sundays. Let us know! We have people who depend on us for food.