Release date: 11/23/2020

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NeighborWorks America helps provide food and shelter to families in need during the holidays and all year

What

This Thanksgiving and holiday season, food banks and homeless shelters face challenges like no other. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults report that they experienced food insecurity for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic. But NeighborWorks America remains committed to doing all we can to ensure that the families and communities that rely on us have the tools and resources they need. NeighborWorks America offered emergency grants to nonprofits impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The grants support food banks, shelters, virtual counseling, and more.

We have an entire network of nearly 240 organizations in every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico so we are able to get resources to the people that need them faster.

Recent examples of NeighborWorks organizations’ work:

• NeighborWorks organization AHC (Arlington, VA) provided weekly deliveries of affordable food and other services to families in Washington, DC area. See recent “Good Morning America” appearance. 
• NeighborWorks organization NeighborImpact (Bend, OR) coordinated a mobile food bank to serve families in need. See recent video.
• NeighborWorks organization Manna (Washington, DC) is helping people with Thanksgiving food provisions.

NeighborWorks America’s grants are key to helping nonprofits address urgent issues and the organization is leading the way in pivoting from in-person to virtual events in the current environment.

When

November 23, 2020 – ongoing, via phone, email, Skype/Zoom

Experts Available  

Paul Singh, Vice President, Community Initiatives, NeighborWorks America

As Vice President of Community Initiatives, Paul Singh leads NeighborWorks America's support for comprehensive community development efforts that build vibrant local communities that provide equitable opportunities for people to thrive. Singh oversees the Stable Communities, Community Building and Engagement, Rural and Healthy Homes and Communities Initiatives and the work of these teams to elevate and strengthen local practice through grant making, technical assistance, capacity building, peer-to-peer learning, demonstration projects, stakeholder convenings, and research. Read full bio.

About NeighborWorks America
For more than 40 years, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp., a national, nonpartisan nonprofit known as NeighborWorks America, has strived to make every community a place of opportunity. Our network of excellence includes nearly 250 members in every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. NeighborWorks America offers grant funding, peer-exchange, technical assistance, evaluation tools and access to training, as the nation's leading trainer of housing and community development professionals. NeighborWorks network organizations provide residents in their communities with affordable homes, owned and rented; financial counseling and coaching; community building through resident engagement; and collaboration in the areas of health, employment and education. In the last five years, our organizations have generated more than $40 billion in investment across the country.