North Brooklyn Angels - Why Volunteer?

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You see the truck around town. You know us as the North Brooklyn Angels, but our legal name is The North Brooklyn Coalition of Neighbors Helping Neighbors. We are a 501©-tax-exempt nonprofit organization formed in December 2016. The Angelmobile, our 40ft mobile soup kitchen vehicle, started serving meals on the streets of Brooklyn on June 19, 2017. In the first six months, our volunteers served over 13,000 meals. On January 2, 2018, we opened our community kitchen, cooking all the meals ourselves with volunteers. Since then, in the next 6 months of operation, our volunteers have cooked and served over 20,000 meals. Our organization is based on the idea that we are a neighborhood filled with people who want to work together to fight hunger, food insecurity, and poverty. We believe direct action by neighbors is an important resource in building an equitable and diverse neighborhood.

In a year on the streets, using serious volunteer power, North Brooklyn Angels has addressed the local meal gap by serving over 33,400 free hot & healthy meals. The Meal Gap, New York City's official measure of food insecurity, represents the meals missing from the homes of people struggling with food insecurity — that is, when household food budgets fall too short to secure adequate, nutritious food year-round. Factors like poverty and local food costs determine how big a city's meal gap is. The meal gap in North Brooklyn, formed by the neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Bushwick, ranges from 11 meals to 0.9 meals, depending on the survey area. Formerly three working-class and industrial neighborhoods, this part of Brooklyn has been rapidly gentrifying since the 1990s. As North Brooklyn continues to transform with an influx of wealth, an explosion of development, the skyrocketing of real estate values, an inundation of nightlife establishments, bars, trendy restaurants, & hip cafes, the proliferation of movie productions, and the continual use of Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Bushwick as a lifestyle prop, it must be recognized that amidst all this wealth and buzz, there is hunger, displacement pressure, and economic uncertainty for the working poor, the homeless, and the low income residents barely surviving and very much struggling to remain in our community.

Learn more at: northbrooklynangels.org

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