Impact
At Elijah’s Promise, we do more than feed people. We change lives. From our inception, we have been grounded in the belief that “Food Changes Lives.” Our programs include emergency feeding, social services, culinary job training, healthy cooking programs and a mobile soup kitchen – all leveraging food as a catalyst for positive change and wellbeing in our community.
Over this last year Elijah’s Promise has…
- Served over 375,000 free meals both at our Community Soup Kitchen and throughout Central New Jersey
- Expanded EP On Wheels— EP On Wheels, our mobile soup kitchen on wheels, is officially traveling to eight fixed locations per week including five low-income senior citizen locations. EP on Wheels serves fresh, hot, and free meals to the community every week to highly food insecure neighbors who can’t get to our Community Soup Kitchen.
- Promise Culinary School continues to give clients critical job training for employment. We have over 1,000 graduates and maintain a 90% job placement rate.
- Partnered with over ten social service organizations that regularly pick up food to bring to their food insecure clients.
- Provided one-on-one interaction with Community Soup Kitchen clients to guide those in need of additional state and federal assistance programs to the correct services as well as counseling on next steps to achieve long-term health and success.
- Distributed a record amount of clothing and hygiene products to homeless individuals while also helping them access housing, SNAP and other social service benefits.