Contact Information

noreply@blogger.com (jrothman) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:57:00 +0000

For more information check out our soon to be launched website at: cfanj.org or contact:
Jennifer Rothman
Coordinator of Community Affairs & Volunteers
201-569-1804 x28
jrothman@cfanj.org

Welcome to the Center for Food Action Blog

noreply@blogger.com (jrothman) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:53:00 +0000

Welcome to The Center for Food Action in New Jersey
The Center for Food Action (CFA) provides emergency food, rental and utility assistance, counseling, and advocacy to our neighbors in need in Bergen County and in the Upper Passaic Valley. Last year CFA distributed nearly $2.7 million worth of food -that’s nearly 42,260 emergency food packages - and helped 734 families stay in their homes and/or kept their heat and electric from being turned off.

CFA also operates the NJ Anti-Hunger Coalition (NJAHC), formerly known as the Statewide Emergency Food and Anti-Hunger Network (SEFAN). NJAHC serves as a clearinghouse for information, training and technical assistance to emergency food providers and works to end hunger in our state.
Hunger has many faces: A parent skipping meals so her children can eat, a child going to bed with an empty stomach, a recently unemployed man making do with a watered down can of soup for his dinner so he can save the rest for breakfast, a mom feeding her two teenagers oatmeal for dinner several times a month, an elderly man going through a dumpster outside a local restaurant. Each of these people has a name and story; each lives in our community, and all of them turned to CFA for help.