Help Just A Click Away For City's Hungry & Homeless

If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to help out others less fortunate, the New York City Coalition Against Hunger is making it easy for you. Their new volunteer matching website lets users see what food pantries and soup kitchens most desperately need help and enables volunteers to find the best match for their skill set. You can even base your decision on what subway line the job is closest to and how many miles you’re willing to travel.

The site is highly specific and couldn’t be easier; seems the only thing it doesn’t do for you is actually show up and do the work. By clicking on preferences like what time you want to work and indicating whether you’d rather do food deliveries, basic office work or other tasks, the coalition is making it next to impossible to come up with excuses for why you can’t pitch in.

According to the coalition, 1.7 million new Yorkers live below the pitifully low federal poverty line. Of those, about 1.2 million of them are forced to use one of the city’s more than 1,200 emergency food pantries and soup kitchen some time during the year. Did you do any volunteering this holiday season? Read more on the New York City Hunger blog!