Services

Bring a Community Food Pantry to Your Neighborhood

The TCRC Community Healing Center is expanding our food-rescue and community food-distribution model by partnering with organizations that want to establish reliable, dignified food distributions in their own neighborhoods.

Our goal is simple: get good food to people who need it while treating every person with love, dignity, fairness, and respect.

If your church, nonprofit, community organization, block association, or neighborhood group wants to establish a regular food distribution, TCRC can provide food, training, technical assistance, and ongoing support.

What Your Organization Provides

To operate a successful outdoor food distribution, community partners should be prepared to provide:

● Tables and tents. A minimum of six tables is required; eight tables are recommended for a full distribution.

● Storage space. TCRC can provide approximately 18–24 reusable trays for organizing and displaying food. Once delivered, the trays remain with your organization, so you must have a secure place to store them between distributions.

● A committed volunteer team. Your organization must provide volunteers who are willing to participate in TCRC training and follow our community-service standards.

● A commitment to fairness. Partners may reasonably set aside some food for their volunteers and organizational needs, but the bulk of the food must be distributed to the community. TCRC does not partner with organizations that remove the best food for themselves and leave the public with what remains.

Serving With Love and Respect

Food distribution is about more than handing somebody a bag of groceries.

TCRC trains community partners to operate their distributions in a way that protects people’s dignity. We believe residents should be welcomed, respected, and served fairly regardless of their circumstances.

People coming for food are our neighbors—not numbers in a line.

That principle is at the heart of the TCRC model.

Transportation and Monthly Partnership Contribution

Much of the food distributed through TCRC is rescued or donated. However, getting that food into our communities is not free.

Our team must locate and recover food, physically load it onto our vehicles, transport it—sometimes over significant distances—unload it, deliver it to the community, and assist partners with setting up their distribution.

For organizations establishing a full monthly Community Food Pantry, the partnership contribution is $500 per month to help support transportation, fuel, logistics, and program operations.

Our goal is not to leave community organizations carrying these expenses alone. Approved community partners can also receive assistance identifying additional food resources, developing partnerships, and pursuing grants and other funding opportunities that can help make their programs sustainable.

Building Community Capacity

Become a TCRC Community Partner

We’re looking for serious community organizations that want to do this work properly, professionally, consistently, and with love.

If your organization has the people, commitment, and desire to bring a dependable food distribution program to your neighborhood, we’d like to talk with you.

Together, we can rescue good food, reduce food scarcity, strengthen neighborhood organizations, create opportunities for residents, and build communities that take care of one another.

Ready to Get Started?

Contact:

J. Jondhi Harrell
Executive Director
TCRC Community Healing Center

Email:‍ ‍jondhi.tcrchealingcenter@gmail.com

Work Cell:215-791-0645

Website: tcrccommunityhealingcenter.org

Peace, Power & Respect.

Opportunities for Older Adults

Community partners may also have an opportunity to connect eligible adults age 55 and older with senior employment and training programs.

through Maturityworks.com

Depending upon eligibility and current program requirements, qualifying participants may be able to receive paid training while working approximately 20 hours per week.

This creates an important opportunity: people who might otherwise volunteer without compensation may be able to become paid community trainees, gaining experience while supplementing their income.

Eligibility, wages, hours, and income requirements are determined by the applicable employment program and should be confirmed at the time of enrollment.