Oneida County Food Coalition

09/27/2026

A New Restaurant, 1,700 Meals, and a Community Working Together 💚

During two weeks of training at its new New Hartford restaurant, CAVA donated more than 1,700 prepared meals. ResQ2Feed Oneida County rescued and delivered those meals to nine local organizations and community sites serving seniors, veterans, people experiencing homelessness, and families facing food insecurity.

Several Oneida County Food Coalition members helped put those meals into the hands of our neighbors: Hope House, Seeds of Hope Pantry, Johnson Park, The Salvation Army in Utica, Rome Housing Authority, Feed Our Vets, and Morrow Warming Center. Meals also reached residents of Perretta Twin Towers and people served by Good Neighbors, Inc.

This is what a connected community can do. CAVA shared the food, ResQ2Feed volunteers made the pickups and deliveries, and local partners knew how to reach the people who could use a meal.
Thank you to CAVA’s New Hartford team and the manager, Sandy Rosario, every volunteer, and every participating organization. Welcome to Oneida County, CAVA! We’re grateful that your community spirit is already making a difference here.

09/01/2026

❤️ **HUNGER ACTION MONTH: TAKING ACTION TO FEED OUR NEIGHBORS**

September is **Hunger Action Month**—a time to recognize that hunger affects people right here in our communities and, more importantly, a time to **take action**.

Across Oneida County, food pantries and emergency food providers work every day to make sure individuals and families have access to nutritious food. But meeting the need requires all of us to work together.

That’s why we’re proud to work alongside **ResQ2Feed Oneida County**.

ResQ2Feed is taking action by **rescuing high-quality surplus food from local businesses and getting it quickly into the hands of people who need it.** Fresh produce, prepared foods, dairy, and other nutritious items that might otherwise go to waste are being recovered and delivered through our community’s emergency food network.

🥕 **Food that might have been wasted becomes food for a neighbor.**
🚚 **Local businesses become partners in fighting hunger.**
🤝 **Food pantries and emergency providers become part of a stronger food recovery network.**

This is what Hunger Action Month is all about: **turning resources into meals and compassion into action.**

We encourage our food pantry and emergency food provider partners to learn more about how ResQ2Feed can help connect rescued food with the people you serve—and we encourage local businesses with surplus food to become part of the solution.

**Together, we can rescue more food, waste less, and help ensure that nutritious food reaches our neighbors who need it most.**

❤️ **This Hunger Action Month, let’s take action—together.**

08/27/2026

**Stronger Together for a Healthier Oneida County 💚**

We’re excited to share some great news with the local food pantries and emergency food providers who make the ResQ2Feed network possible.

**Excellus BlueCross BlueShield has awarded ResQ2Feed a Health & Wellness Award** to help us expand the technology behind our food rescue operations. This support will allow us to strengthen our **Food Rescue Hero platform** and onboard more local food donors—creating greater opportunities for nutritious surplus food to reach the people and families you serve.

To every pantry, emergency food provider, nonprofit, and community organization participating in the ResQ2Feed network: **thank you for being an essential part of this effort.** Your willingness to receive, distribute, and put rescued food to work is what turns food recovery into meaningful community impact.

This award helps us strengthen the infrastructure behind the network—but **the real power of food rescue is the network itself.**

We look forward to growing this partnership with you and making even more nutritious food available throughout Oneida County.

**Stronger Together for a Healthier Oneida County.**

08/14/2026

Really proud to see this story highlighting what can happen when employees, businesses, and community organizations come together to fight food insecurity.

A big thank-you to the team at Excellus BlueCross BlueShield for growing and donating fresh produce, and to everyone who helped make sure that food reached local families through ResQ2Feed.

This is what community looks like. ❤️🥕🌱

Watch the WKTV story

Excellus BlueCross BlueShield employees donated fresh produce, with the help of the local nonprofit ResQ2Feed.

01/31/2026

🧡 Help Us Fight Hunger This February! 🧡

ResQ2Feed Oneida County has been chosen as Hannaford's Fight Hunger Bag Program partner for February!

Here's our ask: Next time you're shopping at the Kellogg Road Hannaford in New Hartford, grab a $2.50 Fight Hunger Bag. $1 goes straight to feeding families right here in Oneida County.
It's such a simple way to support their mission. Please share this post and tag friends who shop at Hannaford. Together, we can make a real difference! 💪

09/15/2025

🍽️ **Join us for Mohawk Valley Gives Day of Giving!** 🤝

Did you know that 13% of our neighbors in Oneida County face food insecurity? That’s 1 in 8 people in our community who don’t know where their next meal will come from.

The Oneida County Food Coalition is proud to participate in this important day of giving. Your generous donation to any one of our participating organizations will help us fight hunger right here in our community.

Every dollar makes a real difference. Together, we can ensure no one in Oneida County goes hungry.

**Donate at www,givemv.org/organizations and help us nourish our community!** 💙

09/03/2025

Food Rescue Hero is thrilled to announce that ResQ2Feed Oneida County has joined the Food Rescue Hero Network!

Now, residents in the Oneida County, NY region can use the Food Rescue Hero app or visit resq2feed.org to join the mission of rescuing food and fighting hunger in their community.

09/01/2025

📢 The Countdown is Over!
Oneida County Food Coalition’s initiative, ResQ2Feed Oneida County is officially launching its Food Rescue & Recovery Program on Tuesday, September 2—right in time for Hunger Action Month! 🧡🥫
This community-powered movement during its soft launch period (April to August) has:
✅ Completed 490 food rescues
✅ Saved 66,000 pounds of food from going to waste
✅ Provided over 55,000 meals to neighbors in need
✅ Built a network of 60 dedicated volunteers
✅ Partners with 28 local nonprofits serving our community
💪 Together, we’re turning surplus food into hope, meals, and impact for families across Oneida County.
📲 Want to join the movement? Download the Food Rescue Hero app to volunteer, donate, or partner with us. Every rescue matters!

06/07/2025

📲 Rescue Food. On Your Time. Make a Big Impact.

Download the Food Rescue Hero App from the Apple Store or Google Play today!
With just one hour a week, YOU can help fight hunger and food waste in our community.

💪 100 volunteers giving an hour each can transform lives and ensure no good food goes to waste.
🛒 Rescue when it works for you — flexible, fast, and fulfilling.
👉 Be the hero our community needs.

Start now: Search “Food Rescue Hero” in your app store and join the movement!

05/17/2025

Great news from the Oneida County Public Market today! 🎉

Our ResQ2Feed Oneida County booth was busy connecting with our community and spreading the word about our mission: Fighting Hunger | Reducing Waste | Strengthening Our Community.

We're thrilled to announce that a dozen new Rescue Heroes signed up on the spot to be part of our volunteer network! Thank you to everyone who stepped forward to help us rescue good food from going to waste and redirecting it to those in need.

We also made valuable connections with potential food rescue donors and developed exciting new relationships, including a promising partnership with the MVCC sustainability team to implement food rescue initiatives at the college.

Every conversation today brought us one step closer to building a stronger, more sustainable community. If you missed us today but want to learn more about becoming a volunteer or food donor, visit our website or send us a message!

Together, we can make a difference in Oneida County! 💚