Check-Out Hunger | The New Jersey Federation of Food Banks' statewide fundraising campaign

There's a new way to CHECK-OUT HUNGER... And it's just in time.

2 million people in New Jersey qualify for food assistance of some kind.

Over 600,000 are children.

No one in the Garden State should go hungry, especially not our children.

Since 1991, millions of people have supported CHECK-OUT HUNGER & New Jersey's Food Banks by adding a donation to their grocery order at the check-out aisle. CHECK-OUT HUNGER is not just in supermarkets anymore...

About Check-Out Hunger

CHECK-OUT HUNGER, an annual front-end awareness and fund raiser for the New Jersey Federation of Food Banks, is back for its 21st year this fall. This campaign, which began in New Jersey, is run at supermarket chains across the northeast to benefit Feeding America Food Banks. It has raised more than $1 Million per year for the New Jersey Federation of Food Banks for four consecutive years.

Legal Services of New Jersey reports that the poverty rate in New Jersey in just two years has jumped from 8.7 to 10.3 percent. The same report says because of the high cost of living in New Jersey, "true poverty" in our state contains anyone living below 200 percent of the official federal poverty level. That equates to about one out of every four adults (more than 2 million people) and includes about one of every three children (600,000 kids) in our state living in true poverty and in need of our services.

Since 1991, millions of people have supported the program at food markets and online at CheckOutHungerNJ.org. To donate online, please click here.

Donate Now

The New Jersey Federation of Food Banks works all year with over 1,500 charitable programs to provide food and other services for approximately 850,000 people across New Jersey. We need your help to keep up the fight against hunger and poverty.

Please click on your county to the right to donate to the food bank that serves your area.

NORWESCAP Food Bank
201 North Broad Street
Phillipsburg, NJ 08865
Phone: 908-454-4322
Fax: 908-454-2030
Web site: www.norwescap.org
(Covers Sussex, Warren and Hunterdon Counties)

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Community FoodBank of New Jersey
31 Evans Terminal Road
Hillside, NJ 07205
Phone: 908-355-3663
Fax: 908-355-0270
Web site: www.njfoodbank.org
(Directly covers Bergen, Passaic, Essex, Morris, Hudson, Middlesex, Union and Somerset Counties and supplies food to other Federation members on a regular basis.)

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Mercer Street Friends Food Bank
824 Silvia Street
Ewing, NJ 08628
Phone: 609-406-0503
Fax: 609-406-7328
Web site: www.mercerstreetfriends.org
(Covers Mercer County)

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The FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties
3300 Route 66
Neptune, NJ 07753
Phone: 732-918-2600
Fax: 732-918-2660
Web site: www.foodbankmoc.org

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The Food Bank of South Jersey
1501 John Tipton Blvd.
Pennsauken, NJ 08110
Phone: 856-662-4884
Fax: 856-662-4489
Web site: www.foodbanksj.org
(Covers Camden, Gloucester, Salem and western Burlington Counties)

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Partners

Participating food markets include A&P, Fairway of Paramus, Food Basics, Foodtown, Genuardi's, Kings, Pathmark, ShopRite, Super Fresh, Wawa, and Wegmans.

NRG Energy, an energy provider located in Princeton, is once again the statewide sponsor of CHECK-OUT HUNGER.

This campaign was developed by the Community FoodBank of New Jersey in conjunction with the New Jersey Food Council and supermarket chains with headquarters in New Jersey. Currently the Community FoodBank of New Jersey administers the regional campaign with 14 chains for 32 food banks and affiliates in 9 states and the District of Columbia.