List of Covid-safer Outdoor food banks and places that deliver:
MASSACHUSSETTS
Rosindale in West Roxbury- no documentation needed, open to anyone
Sunday, 3-3:30pm, 1195 Centre Street West Roxbury, drive up, 1 box per car: https://www.facebook.com/rosifoodcollective; https://www.roslindalefoodcollective.org/contact ; (outdoors drive thru)
Northampton: https://www.northamptonsurvival.org/get-food/chooselocation/ (delivery, outdoor drive thru, curbside)
Needham: https://needhamcouncil.org/food-pantry/ (delivery)
Amherst (and Belchertown, Deerfield, Granby, Hadley, Leverett, Pelham, Shutesbury, South Deerfield, South Hadley, Sunderland, Ware and Whately) https://amherstsurvival.org/pantry/ (delivery)
Cambridge: https://foodforfree.org/healthy-eats/ (delivery)
Greenfield: https://www.thestonesoupcafe.org/p/2067/Community-Store. (outdoors, people have reported it can be crowded) no documentation needed, open to anyone
Saturdays, 12-1:30pm. Everything is free. You stand in line outside and shop (see pictures at the website). There will be unmasked people outdoors in line, and volunteers do not mask.
https://thestonesoupcafe.org/p/2067/Free-Store
Stone Soup Cafe ALSO runs a weekly community meal. This is FREE if you cannot afford to donate. You can order outside and they bring the food to you within 5-10 minutes, outside.
Pittsfield: https://www.southcommunityfoodpantry.org/ (delivery)
Open Table (serves residents of the following towns): Acton, Bedford, Billerica, Boxborough, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord*, Framingham, Hudson, Lexington, Lincoln, Littleton, Lowell, Marlborough, Maynard*, Natick, Stow, Sudbury, Waltham, Wayland, Westford
*People who work in Concord or Maynard that live outside our service area may also shop with proof of employment in either of these towns.
You register (you do need to provide name and address, but not photo ID) online and you order online (you get to choose some of the foods, but they don’t guarantee anything). You select a pick-up time on Tuesdays or Thursdays (see their website).
ALL pickups are done in a parking lot. Groceries are loaded into your trunk.
Their volunteers do NOT mask, but it's 100% outdoors.
Residents in their service area can get food once per week.
Sudbury Food Pantry - open to all Massachusetts residents
Like Open Table, the Sudbury Food Pantry is 100% outdoors. You reserve a pick-up time at their website. You arrive and a volunteer with a clipboard takes your information. You fill out a request sheet (as with Open Table, they can’t guarantee requests). When it’s your turn, you drive up to a window behind the church and they hand you your bags of food to put in your own car. These are the only contacts.
Their volunteers do NOT mask.
http://sudburyfoodpantry.org/pick-up-food/
Residents of MA can get food at this pantry 2 times per month
Medway Food Pantry - open to all Massachusetts residents
This is a small one, but reliable and 100% outdoors. They are open Tues & Thurs 9-11 at 600 Mahan Circle, Medway, MA and welcome any MA resident 3x/month
https://www.facebook.com/.../Medway-Food.../100067505804658/
unknown if volunteers mask
Center for Self-Reliance: DELIVERY from a food pantry
Delivery service is currently available to Buckland, Greenfield, Montague and Shelburne residents.
You can order twice per month.
https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6150320/CSR-Ordering
Note: they require a fair amount of information in their application. Some food pantries receive funding based on demographic data like this.
Unknown if volunteers mask.
Brookline Food Rescue in Canton MA - no documentation needed, open to anyone
Fridays at noon - 427 Turnpike St., Canton MA - cars line up, pop your trunk, 1 box per car - VERY fast drive-thru
Unknown if their volunteers mask.
Salem, MA Mobile Pop-up Pantry - Salem residents and Salem State University faculty, staff, and students
Wednesdays from 10-noon. More details here: https://www.salemstate.edu/.../student.../salem-pantry-pop
Unknown if their volunteers mask.
RHODE ISLAND
St. Vincent de Paul Society: https://svdpri.org/basic-needs/ (401) 490-0822
Coventry and West Warwick: Our Lady of Czestochowa Gymnasium, 445 Washington Street Coventry RI . "Optional Delivery for those who do not drive in Coventry and West Warwick. "
Newport County: St. Joseph - Newport Conference, delivery only. Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 am to 12 pm . (401)258-5773 Vicki Walsh to arrange
Peace Dale: St. Francis of Assisi Conference. Peacedale Congregation, 261 Columbia St, Peace Dale, RI 02879. "elderly and disabled, No hours just on “personal response to a request for food.” "
Cumberland/Northern RI
Northern RI Food Pantry in Cumberland, 401-347-5714
Serves Pawtucket, Woonsocket, Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, N. Smithfield
"7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on the first Saturday and third Saturday of each month. We ask families to register with us the first time they visit and to update family information when it changes. When you register, we will give you a food pantry ID card to use each time you visit. We provide food in quantities determined by our available supply."
DRIVE THRU
Central Falls
at Progreso Latino (call to see if will do outdoor/curbside), English and Español
East Providence
meal and grocery delivery (contact to be added to list)
also have to-go pick up
Providence (Halal and Kosher)
JCS-Louis and Goldie Chester Full Plate Kosher Pantry (401)331-1244
Kristany Jaycox. Open 1st & 3rd Wed, Thu, Fri of each month by appt. only. Call to schedule pick-up of Kosher or Halal food and for emergency food delivery criteria and screening. Guests can visit 2x/month.
Warren
St. Mary of the Bay Food Pantry 645 Main Street. Tue 3 PM - 6 PM & Wed. 9 AM - 11 AM. Serves East Bay. Guests can come weekly. Call ahead to make drive-thru arrangements. (401)245-7000
Wendy Baker
CONNECTICUT
Connecticut Foodshare State-wide Mobile Pantry Locator
Connecticut Foodshare’s texting tool is now available state-wide. Simply text FOODSHARE (for English) or COMIDA (for Spanish) to 85511 to opt-in. Users will be prompted to answer a few simple questions and then will be given information on location, date, time, and frequency of Connecticut Foodshare Mobile Pantry distributions nearby.
Home Delivered Meals through the town, Age 60+; Resident of Woodbury; Homebound. 203-263-4117
Bristol
thru Bristol Senior Center (55+) https://www.bristolct.gov/257/Senior-Center
Meals delivered M-F: 10am-1pm. Call for program criteria.
Southington
"Bread For Life provides hot lunch weekdays to homebound residents who qualify in our community. We also deliver groceries on Friday for weekend meals to those who are unable to leave their homes." https://southingtonbreadforlife.org/contact/
Mobile Food Pantry also
Bloomfield
thru the town, Delivers one hot meal and one cold meal (including kosher meals) to homebound seniors and disabled residents
330 Park AvenueBloomfield, CT06002
Branford
delivery. Monday, Wednesday, Friday Delivered between 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Available to any Branford or North Branford resident who is unable to drive, does not have a reliable source of transportation, and needs a meal.
To register, please contact us at (203) 488-9750, Ext. 1
Manchester
October Kitchen https://www.octoberkitchen.com/. (NOT FREE)
purchase/pay, pick up or delivery
Resident of Avon, Berlin, Bloomfield, Bolton, Bristol, Burlington, Canton, Colchester, Coventry, Cromwell, East Granby, East Hartford, East Windsor, Ellington, Enfield, Farmington, Glastonbury, Granby, Hartford, Hebron, Manchester, Marlborough, Middletown, Newington, Plainville, Portland, Rocky Hill, Simsbury, Somers, South Windsor, Southington, Suffield, Tolland, Vernon, West Hartford, Wethersfield, Windsor, Windsor Locks
Norwich
Weekly Pop Up Drive Thru Food Pantry
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