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From now until Dec. 24th Community Solidarity, America's largest vegetarian hunger relief organization, is organizing a massive toy drive for the thousands of families we assist each week. We'll be transforming our food delivery trunk into a mobile toy store and you can help.

On Sunday, November 19th, Community Solidarity will be organizing the world's largest Vegan Thanksgiving. Each year hundreds of volunteers share over 100,000 pounds of vegetarian groceries with thousands of people in need at this one event.

On Sunday, November 19th, Community Solidarity will be organizing its annual Vegan Thanksgiving Bonanza. It's the world's largest Vegan Thanksgiving, it's free, and anyone in need of food or clothing is welcome! All are welcome to volunteer. 

Battling Waste and Want

Printed on April 24th, 2014 in Newsday, "LI Food Not Bombs offers free vegetarian food shares" written by CLAUDIA GRYVATZ COPQUIN

"There, volunteers set up the food on long tables and share it, along with fresh flowers, used clothing, books, seeds, toys and school supplies, with anyone who wants it. No money is ever exchanged. Social service agencies are not involved. No one on the food line is asked for documentation, their name or income."

#VeganFoodRescue featured in Newsday!

Community Solidarity Inc., also known as Long Island Food Not Bombs, gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “take a load off.”

On a recent Thursday evening in Farmingville, as volunteers from the nonprofit vegetarian food share program hustled to unload more than a dozen carloads of surplus food donated by supermarkets, Krystyna Compton of Kings Park chuckled and gestured toward her sagging black sedan.

Post-Irene, gathering markets' food for poor

The Whole Foods supermarket in Jericho didn't have electricity Tuesday, but it still had one customer: Long Island Food Not Bombs, a food-recovery group that takes unsaleable but still edible food from supermarkets and distributes it to food pantries and the hungry. Karen Greene, a manager at Whole Foods, said her store called Food Not Bombs after the store lost power Sunday morning to salvage food that would otherwise spoil. Read More.

Food Not Bombs sets up in Wyandanch

Originally published in Newsday on Sept. 3rd, 2012 by MACKENZIE ISSLER. The original story can be read online at http://www.newsday.com/long-island/food-not-bombs-sets-up-in-wyandanch-1.3948579. Photo Credit: Ed Betz

Starting early on a recent Saturday, a handful of people -- their cars packed with fresh produce, baked goods and bouquets of flowers -- drove to Wyandanch.

They started handing out their bounty from behind folding tables, transforming a sidewalk on Straight Path into the newest food distribution site. Read More

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