Brooklyn food pantries see boost in city funding
Council allocates $4 million to organizations citywide
Reaching Out Community Services Inc., a nonprofit social services organization that operates out of a storefront on New Utrecht Avenue in Bensonhurst, will be able to assist more hungry families now that the City Council has announced a $30,000 allocation to the group.
Reaching Out, which sponsors a food pantry on its premises at 7708 New Utrecht Ave., is one of five nonprofit organizations in Southwest Brooklyn that have been awarded city funding.
Thomas Neve, executive director of Reaching Out Community Services Inc., said he is grateful to the council for taking action. “The food pantry initiative is a lifeline to our organization because we are being challenged on a funding level to a point where it is becoming damaging to our existence,” he said.