Thanksgiving Food Drive

Support the Camp Friendship Thanksgiving Food Drive

We are feeding 530 families weekly, more than half live in the 11215 zip code. We would love to help our neighbors celebrate a special time with sides and turkeys. Thank you so much for helping spread some joy to our neighbors!

We are asking for seasonal items:

• stuffing

• cornbread mix

• canned pumpkin

• canned corn

• cranberries

• canned green beans

• canned sweet potatoes

And staples like:

• Beans

• White Rice

• Canned Tomatoes

• Soups

• White Pasta

• Cereal

• Shelf-stable milk

• cooking oil

Donations can be dropped off at 

Camp Friendship Fridays 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.; Saturdays 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.

YMCA during operating hours YMCA

Update 11/22: Thank you for a successful Thanksgiving distribution!

Enjoy these pics of our wonderful volunteers making it happen:

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Beansprouts made an adorable collection monster and brought about 15 large boxes of food for our Thanksgiving giveaway.

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Our friends at PS 39 brought Thanksgiving donations and a lot of enthusiasm

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Our morning crew before we got going

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A visit by our Assemblyman Bobby Carroll, who brought one of our youngest volunteers

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The Sunshine Committee from PS 10 brought a bounty for us

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Senator Andrew Gounardes gave us a hand and something to be thankful for!

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Councilwoman Shahana Hanif pitched in and practiced her Spanish

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Our volunteer Eva did a heavy lift with turkeys weighing up to 20 pounds!