More than 900,000 meals were collected during NBC 4 New York and Telemundo 47’s ‘Feeding Our Families / Alimentando a Nuestras Familias’ first-ever tri-state food drive in partnership with Stop & Shop supermarkets on Saturday, April 8 at 199 Stop & Shop locations across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
The largest single-day food drive Stop & Shop has ever hosted benefitted seven regional food banks including Connecticut Food Bank, Community Food Bank of New Jersey, Food Bank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, Food Bank for NYC, Food Bank for Westchester, Food Bank of the Hudson Valley and Island Harvest Food Bank.
Stop & Shop also donated $100,000 to support the work of the seven participating tri-state food banks.
