Neighbors Helping Neighbors: Food, Clothing & So Much More!
Ecumenical Hunger Program (EHP) provides compassionate, dignified and practical assistance to families and individuals experiencing economic and personal hardship. They offer material help, support services, and advocacy for our neighbors in need, in a challenging and rapidly changing environment. EHP serves working families, seniors, people with limited incomes and those who have both emergency and on-going needs in East Palo Alto, Menlo Park and surrounding communities.
EHP is at a crossroads. Demand for resources and programs continues to grow, which has created the need for more space. EHP, through creative and innovative space allocation and organization, has been able to offset vertical space for storage to continue to grow programs over the last decade but they have maximized all space availability. To continue to meet growing demand, EHP needed to address the lack of physical space required to expand programs.
In October 2024, the program announced the acquisition of an adjacent property on Weeks Street that will allow for expansion of the campus and programs. This will be the first major expansion of the EHP campus since the initial acquisition of the Pulgas Street property and is a testament to the continued growth and success of the program. The Weeks Street acquisition will present new and daunting challenges for the program as major renovation work will be needed to make the space usable.
The EHP Weeks Street Capital Campaign has been officially launched and community support will be invaluable to the success of the campaign.
Additional Space:
- Provides much needed storage space & parking
- Expansion of Existing Programs (e.g., Client Shopping)
- New Programs/Workshops/Clinics
While the Pandemic may be over, the need for hunger relief still exists in our community. During 2020, the first year of the Covid 19 Pandemic, EHP distributed 24,956 Emergency Food boxes to 5,644 households/18,024 unduplicated individuals. This was an increase from the prior year when EHP provided food to 5,230 households/15,690 unduplicated individuals. Since then, the numbers have steadily grown. Last year, 7,633 households/19,071 unduplicated individuals received 39,540 emergency food boxes and over 15,400 hot meals at EHP. Please support EHP's efforts to provide food, clothing & so much more to our community! >>
