Emergency Food Council of Greater New Haven
EFC Home Regular Schedule Area Resources Events Calendar Member Agencies Contact Us	Welcome to the EFC Our Mission The mission of the Greater New Haven Emergency Food Council is to coordinate the efforts of private agencies and to harmonize the public and private sectors in the distribution of emergency food to those in need in the greater New Haven area. Through centralized coordination, the member agencies seek to minimize duplication of services, reduce competition, and distribute limited resources equitably and efficiently. The Emergency Food Council promotes a spirit of cooperation so that all who are hungry are fed. Our Work The EFC conducts meetings nine times a year that give representatives from emergency food providers the opportunity to get together in an informal setting to discuss problems and issues that are common to all of us. The membership of the EFC includes food pantries, homeless shelters, residential programs, and soup kitchens from New Haven, Branford East Haven, Guilford, West Haven and Hamden. Members’ Efforts The Community Dinning Room (CDR) serves over 3,500 meals each month through their breakfast, lunch, family dinner and home delivery programs to shoreline neighbors in need. In 2006, the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK) provided over 52,406 free daily hot evening meals, 7,787 weekly food pantry bags and 5,280 daily bag lunches to the food insecure and working poor of greater New Haven. The Connecticut Food Bank (CFB) is the largest centralized source of donated, emergency food in the state serving more than 650 community-based programs such as soup kitchens, food pantries and shelters in six of Connecticut's eight counties. In 2006, Community Soup Kitchen (CSK) provided over 54,512 free breakfast & lunch meals to the needy of New Haven.

EFC Home Regular Schedule Area Resources Events Calendar Member Agencies Contact Us

Welcome to the EFC

Our Mission

The mission of the Greater New Haven Emergency Food Council is to coordinate the efforts of private agencies and to harmonize the public and private sectors in the distribution of emergency food to those in need in the greater New Haven area. Through centralized coordination, the member agencies seek to minimize duplication of services, reduce competition, and distribute limited resources equitably and efficiently. The Emergency Food Council promotes a spirit of cooperation so that all who are hungry are fed.

Our Work

The EFC conducts meetings nine times a year that give representatives from emergency food providers the opportunity to get together in an informal setting to discuss problems and issues that are common to all of us. The membership of the EFC includes food pantries, homeless shelters, residential programs, and soup kitchens from New Haven, Branford East Haven, Guilford, West Haven and Hamden.

Members’ Efforts

The Community Dinning Room (CDR) serves over 3,500 meals each month through their breakfast, lunch, family dinner and home delivery programs to shoreline neighbors in need.

In 2006, the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK) provided over 52,406 free daily hot evening meals, 7,787 weekly food pantry bags and 5,280 daily bag lunches to the food insecure and working poor of greater New Haven.

The Connecticut Food Bank (CFB) is the largest centralized source of donated, emergency food in the state serving more than 650 community-based programs such as soup kitchens, food pantries and shelters in six of Connecticut's eight counties.

In 2006, Community Soup Kitchen (CSK) provided over 54,512 free breakfast & lunch meals to the needy of New Haven.