Dinner and drinks will toast a bounty of compassion at Project Hospitality’s Harvest Gala this week https://www.silive.com/entertainment/2023/10/dinner-and-drinks-will-toast-a-bounty-of-compassion-at-project-hospitalitys-harvest-gala-this-week.html By Carol Ann Benanti | benanti@siadvance.com STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Project Hospitality’s annual Harvest Gala, set for Wednesday, Oct. 18, will celebrate busy hands, open hearts and generous deeds by Staten Island leaders, volunteers, faith workers, businesses, and philanthropists. Rev. Louis Jerome, Colleen and …
Affordable housing development opens on Staten Island
Affordable housing development opens on Staten Island https://www.silive.com/news/2023/09/affordable-housing-development-open-on-staten-island.html By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A local non-profit organization and a developer celebrated the opening of a new Port Richmond affordable housing complex this week. The location at the intersection of Castleton and Port Richmond avenues will contain 48 units — 31 permanent supportive units, 16 affordable units for …
Borough faith leaders get vaccinated to set an example
By Kristin F. Dalton | kdalton@siadvance.com STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Faith leaders on Staten Island have been making examples of themselves by getting vaccinated, and sharing it publicly, to help dispel myths and address vaccine hesitancy in their communities. The Rev. Karen Jackson, co-chair of Staten Island Inter-Religious Leadership and director of community initiatives at Project Hospitality, recorded herself getting vaccinated …
Mayor DeBlasio Visits Project Hospitality Food Pantry
With growing food security concerns among New York City’s most vulnerable, Mayor Bill de Blasio visited a Project Hospitality site in Stapleton serving as many as 300 meals a day. {read more}
Help Us Feed the Hungry Now
Help us feed the hungry now: NYC emergency food aid during coronavirus Twenty-six cases of milk, 10 pallets of vegetables, and 30,000 pounds of food overall. Truckloads of non-perishables — cans of beans, bags of rice, pasta. That’s essential food, and that’s one delivery… {read more}
Food Pantries Provide More Than Food in preparation for Poor People’s Dinner
So much of what starts in our food pantries and soup kitchen — the centers of Project Hospitality’s web of care — extends forward. Our soup kitchens and food pantries serve in ways not only related to food, but related to health, related to life, related to comfort, and related to basic human needs. Last year we served almost 1.8 …
Project Hospitality Spring Brunch Celebrates Devoted Service
We, as a community, are only as strong as the weakest among us. Without courageous people to confront the structures of poverty and oppression, we would all struggle to rise. Without volunteers to share their hands and hearts, Project Hospitality would struggle to feed, shelter and serve our most vulnerable neighbors. Project Hospitality’s Spring Brunch at the …
Los Promotores Tutoring Program Teaches Academics and Our Shared Humanity
The elementary school children and their mothers in the Los Promotores tutoring program balance traditions. As immigrants from Latin America, they are learning the ways of their new country. As families with roots in their native homes, they strive to keep old traditions alive. The innovative after school program adds even more color to their cultural palate — introducing them …
A Summer Day at Project Hospitality’s Soup Kitchen — Cooking Chilled Hungarian Fruit Soup for 300
Soup fuels the body and feeds the soul. Uplifting and humble, it can be found on tables across the globe — going down smooth and warming to the core. The term “Soup Kitchen” comes originally from the mobile trucks which handed out quick, one-bowl meals to soldiers during times of military conflict. Project Hospitality’s Soup Kitchen serves much more than soup …
Journeys from Street Homelessness to Stability
It’s not what you don’t do. It’s what you do. For our Staten Island neighbors living on the streets and in the clutches of addiction, getting high and hiding may sometimes seem like the only escape. Figuring out how to undo this cycle is not as easy as just saying no. It takes saying yes — Yes to creating new pathways in the …