Food Is A Right
Community Solidarity helps you share free vegetarian groceries with thousands in need.
Community Solidarity believes food is a right; for all people. We also believe in compassion for humans, animals, and the earth. To put these beliefs into action we organize weekly grocery distributions called "Food Shares". These Food Shares are essentially free plant-based grocery stores that are located across Long Island & NYC.
Anyone in need of help can come to a Community Solidarity Food Share and get most, if not all, of the groceries they need for the week. We also share clothing, books, toys, school supplies, and other necessities.
Community Solidarity
Grassroots Social Change
Community Solidarity is more than a nonprofit; it’s more than a grassroots movement; Community Solidarity is a philosophy. A philosophy based on the belief that empowered compassionate communities can heal themselves and in doing so create the blueprint for greater social change. Essentially, we exist to put ourselves out of business. We don’t want to address hunger, or poverty, or homelessness; we want to eliminate those problems completely.
Our goal is to fight the social, economic and environmental oppressions that are inflicted upon our community and our planet.
With help from donors like you, in 2025 Community Solidarity provided over $30,369,496.14 of assistance, including over 11,378,284 pounds of vegetarian groceries! We shared other necessities like 118,743 items of clothing, 794,613 pounds of gardening supplies, and $692,365 of cruelty-free hygiene products... to name a few.
In 2025, every $1 donated to Community Solidarity will allow us to rescue 95.56 pounds of vegetarian groceries! That's nearly a week's worth of groceries for a family of four!
Our Mission is to build a better world.
Between people, animals and the planet, our mission is compassion
Our goal is to fight the social, economic and environmental oppressions that are inflicted on our community and our planet.
Providing Nutrition
Focusing on organic produce and nutrition monitoring, CS is the healthiest hunger relief program of its size in the country!
Ending Food Waste
27 million pounds of food waste is created on Long Island every day while 182k Long Islanders go hungry every night.
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Want to rescue food with your community? Here's the 123's on how you can.
1. Signup to volunteer
2. Go to your first Food Share
3. After 3 Shares, we'll put you on a food rescue team!
See us in action
Community Solidarity Food Shares are essentially free outdoor grocery stores where anyone in need can get most, if not all, of the groceries they need for the week. Anyone can come for food and anyone can come to volunteer.
Why Donate or Volunteer with Us?
We are the best in this field
Community Solidarity feeds more people per dollar donated than any other non-profit on Long Island. That means your contributions feed more people! We're the largest vegetarian hunger relief organization in the country and healthiest hunger relief program by leaps and bounds!
We're Unique
We care about people, animals, and the environment. Everything we do is with the aim of helping all three.
We're Punctual
We take our work seriously because thousands depend on us. We operate 24/7/365 and over the past 20 years, we've never missed a day.
We have magic
Thousands of volunteers rescuing Millions of pounds of food waste and in doing so ending hunger for Tens of Thousands of families; yeah that's magical.
We love our community
The average person coming to our food shares saves over $125 a week off their grocery bills! That's money they can use for their health care, their kids' school, or their rent. We show love to everyone in our community.
We're responsible
We record everything! The weight of the foods we share, their nutritional content, the number of people we help every week. Our goal is to record everything so we can more accurately track our progress.
We're Friendly
There's a place for anyone at our food shares, anyone can volunteer, anyone can get food, anyone can do both. We welcome everyone to participate and that openness has helped us grow exponentially, so what are you waiting for? Reach out to us already :)
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631.223.4370
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PO Box 208
Huntington, NY 11743
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