Community Solidarity

UPDATE!!!* Because of Hurricane Sandy we have been forced to postpone our Thanksgiving Bonanza meeting to Monday, Nov. 5th @7pm at the same location. Please spread the word.

It’s been something of an incredible week for Long Island Food Not Bombs & Community Solidarity, Inc. For starters, this past Saturday (August, 18th) we just kicked off our brand-new weekly Wyandanch Food Share. It was phenomenal!

It's back-to-school season and students need their school supplies, but for many Long Island families this can be a costly burden to overcome. Purchases like notebooks, backpacks, sneakers, etc… add up quickly and create a heavy burden on many families struggling in this terrible economy.

For the children at Park Avenue Elementary School in Merrick, solidarity isn’t a spectator sport. Over the past two years the school’s ecology club, called the “Green Team”, has literally gotten their hands dirty transforming an unused space into a beautiful vegetable garden.

Hey everyone,

This past May 1st marked the 1-year anniversary of our nonprofit Community Solidarity. Since it’s creation, Community Solidarity has helped expanded the tactics and tools we use at Long Island Food Not Bombs to many more people and organizations. Each week we share healthy groceries with thousands of people and with dozens of community projects and soup kitchens.

From Jon Stepanian,
To our incredible Food Not Bombs supporters,

Jon Stepanian (aka JonSTeps), of Community Solidarity, Inc. & Long Island Food Not Bombs, is proposing to run across Long Island to raise awareness to the hunger, poverty and discrimination that occurs here in our backyard! His endeavor will take place on May 19th and will seek to fundraise $50,000 for the hunger relief programs he’s helped to found.