City Relief uses buses as mobile soup kitchens to provide food, counseling, spiritual help, and resources to communities in need.
Cause Areas
Boroughs
About
City Relief is a mobile outreach to the homeless. They connect people to resources that lead to life transformation. Their team of staff and volunteers believe that everyone deserves a place to call home because homelessness is a struggle, not a life sentence.
City Relief outreaches feature a custom bus with a built-in kitchen, office, and resource center. They drive the bus to 5 locations throughout New York City weekly providing consistency and developing relationships with those they serve. The staff and volunteers serve homemade soup, beverages & fresh bread, while also offering socks, hygiene kits and prayer. The minimum age to serve with City Relief is 16 years old. Volunteers under 18 need a guardian's written permission to serve, and one adult to serve as chaperone per four minor volunteers.
Mission
To compassionately serve the struggling and homeless by offering hope and resources that lead towards life transformation
How we support them
How We Serve Together
Volunteers deepen their heart for and understanding of how to compassion to the poor and love the poor as Jesus does. Volunteers help to serve meals but also to provide long-term resources to those needing assistance.
What We Help Fund
Our funding helps to cover the NYC-based sites to cover the meal costs as well as the tolls, insurance, gas, and other costs related to the mobile bus soup kitchen unit.
How We Equip Them
We have invested in City Relief's board development, as well as developing key messaging for their organization as it grows, such as a case statement.
