Camden County Food Pantries

Ancora

AUXILIARY OF ANCORA PATIENT FOOD PANTRY

Site: 301 Spring Garden Road Ancora, NJ 08037-9699
Phone: 609-704-4982
Email: Elizabeth.capoferri@dhs.state.nj.us
Hours: days and hours of operation vary: Please call.
Contact: Liz Capoferri
This site provides discharged patients with a 2 week supply of food, bed linens, pillows, and suitcases and this site provides the public with a thrift shop.
Food Needs: non perishables, microwavable food
Volunteer Needs: people to work in the thrift shop
Volunteer Requirements: age 18 or older
Special Needs: personal care items, especially for men

Berlin

SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL FOOD PANTRY

Site: 157 West Whitehorse Pike Berlin, NJ 08009
Phone: 856-767-7391
Email: chang157@verizon.net
Hours: Mon-Fri (except 1st 7 days of the month): 11am-3pm
Contact: Dennis Chang
Food Needs: non-perishables
Volunteer Needs: food distribution-2 hour shifts (Mon-Fri: 11am-1pm & 1-3pm) and thrift shop help (Mon-Sat: 9am-5pm)
Volunteer Requirements: light lifting
Special Needs: funding

Camden

CAMDEN COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER

Site: Confidential
Mail: P.O. Box 1459 Blackwood, NJ 08012
Hotline: 856-227-1234
Office: 856-227-1800
Hours: every day: 24 hours
Contact: Helena Tome, Director
This site provides a hotline, an emergency shelter, domestic violence counseling, and outreach services for victims of domestic abuse.
Food Needs: meats, produce, desserts, pasta, perishables; Call site.
Volunteer Needs: Contact Yvonne Williams at 856-227-1800.
Volunteer Requirements: completion of a 40 hour training program
Special Needs: funding, toiletries, telephone cards, gift certificates to Target, Walmart, grocery stores, other stores

CATHEDRAL KITCHEN

Site: 1514 Federal Street, Camden, NJ 08105
Phone: 856-964-6771
Email: Karen@cathedralkitchen.org
Website: www.cathedralkitchen.org
Hours: Soup Kitchen - Mon-Fri: 4pm
Office - Mon-Fri: 9:30am-5pm
Contact: Karen Talarico
This site provides dinner Monday through Friday.
Food Needs: Needs change. Please contact site.
Volunteer Needs: Contact site.
Volunteer Requirements: age 16 or older
Special Needs: Contact site.

FELLOWSHIP HOUSE

Site: 1722 South Broadway, Camden, NJ 08104
Mail: P.O. Box 261, Collingswood, NJ 08108
Phone: 856-964-4545
Email: fellowshiphouse1@comcast.net
Website: www.fellowshiphousecamden.org
Hours: Office: Mon-Fri: 9:30am-4:30pm
Pantry: 4th Thurs and on emergency basis (Identification and proof of address or a referral from a social service agency is required for pantry clients.)
Contact: Harrison Davis
This site provides an after school Bible program and a pantry.
Food Needs: non-perishables
Volunteer Needs: handy man, grant writers, computer technician, teachers - especially computer teachers, volunteers to work with children in the after school program
Special Needs: funding, new computers, van

MEALS ON WHEELS DELIVERY SERVICE OF CAMDEN COUNTY

Site: 915 Haddon Avenue Camden, N.J. 08103
Phone: 856-963-8226
Hours: Mon-Fri: 7am-2pm
Contact: Fran Werner
This site provides meals to homebound seniors (age 60+) and homebound disabled individuals.
Volunteer Needs: drivers to deliver meals to clients' homes
Volunteer Requirements: age 18 or over; able to lift, read maps & follow directions; driver's license & car (training available)
Special Needs: Contact site.

MOUNT CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH FOOD PANTRY

Site: 1198 Penn Street, Camden, NJ 08102
Phone: 856-614-1991 or 856-966-9400 x 13
Email: emmagorman@aol.com
Hours: 3rd Thurs of each month: 2-4pm & Tues: 12-4pm
Contact: Emma P. Gorman
This site provides a food pantry, homeless breakfast, senior ministry, snacks for Sunday care and children of GED students, and holiday food baskets.
Food Needs: Contact site.
Special Needs: storage space and transportation for food

MOUNT OLIVET SDA CHURCH

Site: 800 Chelton Avenue, Camden, NJ 08104
Phone: 856-365-6108
Email: pastor@mtolivetsdachurch.net
Hours: 2nd & 4th Tues: 4-6pm
Contact: Matthew Clements or Christina Gabriel
This site provides a pantry.
Volunteer Needs: packers, workers to load and unload food
Volunteer Requirements: age 18 or older and able to do some lifting

NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER

Site: 278 Kaighn Avenue, Camden, NJ 08103
Phone: 856-365-5295
Email: nc@ncicamden.org
Website: www.ncicamden.org
Hours: Soup Kitchen - Mon-Fri: 12-1pm
Pantry - Mon-Fri: 1:30-3pm
Contact: Tim Humeniuk
This site provides a soup kitchen, a food pantry, pre-school childcare and after school care.
Food Needs: fresh, frozen and non-perishable meats & vegetables in large portions for the kitchen; non-perishables for the pantry
Volunteer Needs: kitchen servers, grounds workers, year round & additional holiday volunteers
Special Needs: funding

SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA CHURCH

Site: 2818 River Avenue Camden, NJ 08105
Phone: 856-963-5884
Contact: Victoria Walters
This site provides a food pantry, social services, and medical care to people without medical insurance.
Food Needs: non-perishables
Volunteer Needs: food sorters, food packers; Call site.
Volunteer Requirements: no age limits and no heavy lifting
Special Needs: funding (Please make donation checks to St. Anthony of Padua and write “Food Pantry” in the memo line.)

SAINT JOHN CHURCH OF THE APOSTOLIC FAITH

Site: 220 N. 27th Street, Camden, NJ 08105
Phone: 856-541-9689
Email: ministerSheila@yahoo.com
Hours: 3rd Sat of each month and as needed
Contact: Reverend Sheila Jones
This site provides a pantry, clothing, social outreach programs for teens, single parents and others, and Thanksgiving and Christmas programs.
Food Needs: non-perishables
Volunteer Needs: grant writers
Special Needs: funding, new toys for Christmas, personal care items

SALVATION ARMY

Site: 915 Haddon Avenue, Camden 08103
Phone: 856-338-1700
Hours: Office -- Mon-Fri: 9am-3:30pm
Pantry – Mon-Fri: 1-2:30pm
Contact: Rose
This site provides a food pantry and social services.
Food Needs: non-perishables
Volunteer Needs: Contact site.
Special Needs: funding

VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA – ALETHA WRIGHT SHELTER

Site: 271 Atlantic Ave., Camden, NJ 08104
Phone: 856-854-4660 (donations and general contact number)
Phone: 856-966-0909 (homeless clients)
Hours: 24/7
Contact: Kelly Wright (856-854-4660 x138) and Teresa (x137)
Food Needs: soup, bread, fruit, pasta, desserts, meats
Volunteer Needs: Contact Teresa at x137 or Kelly at x138.
Volunteer Requirements: Contact site.
Special Needs: storage space for dry goods, funding (Contact James Wynn (856-854-4660 x128) to make financial donations.)

YOUR FOOD SHELF

Site: 1500 Federal Street, Camden, NJ 08105
Phone: 856-365-6475
Hours: Tues-Fri: 10am-3pm
Contact: Bonnie White
This site provides a food pantry, clothing and small household items to families with children or individuals with medical problems who live in the East Camden area (zip code-08105); birth certificates of the children are required prior to receiving services. Clients can pick up food only once every other month.
Food Needs: non-perishables
Special Needs: funding, small household & personal care items

Chesilhurst

CORNER CUPBOARD

Site: The First Baptist Church of Chesilhurst, 57 White Horse Pike, Chesilhurst, NJ 08089
Phone: 56-767-3283 or 609-870-2089
Email: JamilaOdomGarnette@gmail.com
Hours: every 3rd Wednesday of each month: 4-7pm
Contact: Jamila Odom
This site provides a pantry at Corner Cupboard and clothing at the Corner Closet.
Food Needs: non-perishables
Volunteer Needs: fundraisers, food packers
Volunteer Requirements: Some jobs require heavy lifting.
Special Needs: storage space, funding(Funding may be sent to Food Bank of South Jersey for Corner Cupboard, ID#705, 1501 John Tipton Blvd, Pennsauken, NJ 08110)

Collingswood

SAINT PAUL’S FOOD PANTRY

Site: 832 Park Avenue, Collingswood, NJ 08108
Phone: 856-854-0860 (Messages will be forwarded.)
Hours: Pantry - Tues & Thurs: 11am-2pm
Contact: Charles Wagner
This site provides bags of groceries to registered clients biweekly. Registration is open to needy residents of Collingswood, Haddon Township, Audubon, Oaklyn and Woodlynne only; food stocks do not permit extension of that area. Proof of residence and income is required to register.
Food Needs: all foods
Volunteer Needs: volunteers needed during the day to make pickups of food donations locally and to prepare and pack bags of groceries

Lindenwold

SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY – SAINT LAWRENCE

Site: 207 White Horse Pike, Lindenwold, NJ 08021
Mail: 100 South Avenue, Lindenwold, NJ 08021
Phone: 856-627-8824
Email: EMLOOU@JUNO.COM
Hours: 2nd & 4th Tues of each month
Contact: Mary Lou Creedon, President
This site provides a food pantry.
Food Needs: fresh meat, cheese, and non-perishables including cereal, canned meats, soup
Special Needs: funding

Mount Ephraim

TOUCH NEW JERSEY INC.

Site: 7 North Black Horse Pike, Mount Ephraim, New Jersey 08059
Mail: P.O. Box 8604, Collingswood, New Jersey 08108
Phone: 856-559-0116
Email: foodpantry@touchnewjersey.org
Website: www.touchnewjersey.org
Hours: Tues: 11am-1:30pm, Thurs: 7-8:30pm
Contact: Debbie Realey, Executive Director
This site provides food and resources to individuals and families in need. Resources include social worker, food stamp advocacy, referral to social service agencies, job bulletin board, and domestic violence resources.
Food Needs: non-perishables, shelf milk, canned & boxed meals, cereal, breakfast bars, snacks, baby food & formula, juice boxes, drinks, supplement drinks (i.e. Ensure), desserts, spices, condiments
Volunteer Needs: volunteers to do guest intake, to sort, stock, & handout food, to conduct food drives, to donate food, to do clerical, warehouse, & cleaning work
Volunteer Requirements: individuals who believe in helping the less fortunate, are compassionate, understanding, non judgmental, team-minded, not afraid to get their “hands dirty”, able to lift up to 25 lbs.
Special Needs: funding, health & beauty products, paper goods, one gallon zip lock bags, working computers, monitors, office equipment, van or truck to pick up donations

Pennsauken

GATEKEEPER MINISTRIES FOOD PANTRY

Site: 3600 Earl Avenue, Pennsauken, NJ 08110
Phone: 856-342-8045
Hours: Tues & Thurs: 10am-2pm
Contact: Veronica Jones
Food Needs: non-perishables, some perishables
Volunteer Needs: Contact site.
Special Needs: funding for food, trailer, storage space

Pine Hill

SAINT EDWARDS FOOD PANTRY

Site: 500 Erial Road, Pine Hill, NJ 08021
Phone: 856-783-2670
Hours: 3rd & 4th Thurs of each month: 2:30-4:30pm & food by appointment
Contact: Kathy Moffa and Leo Casey
Food Needs: non-perishables

West Collingswood Heights

SCUCS SENIOR FOOD PANTRY

Site: 146 Black Horse Pike, West Collingswood Heights, NJ
Mail: 146 Black Horse Pike, Mount Ephraim, NJ 08059
Phone: 856-456-1121 x145
Email: rmonou@scucs.org
Website: www.scucs.org
Hours: Mon-Fri: 9am-4pm
Contact: Bobbie Monou
This site provides five day non-perishable food packages to eligible seniors.
Food Needs: non-perishables
Volunteer Needs: workers to pack food bags & to deliver food
Volunteer Requirements: a willing heart

SCUCS SENIOR NUTRITION PROGRAM

Site: 146 Black Horse Pike, West Collingswood Heights, NJ
Mail: 146 Black Horse Pike, Mount Ephraim, NJ 08059
Phone: 856-456-1121 x146
Email: Nutrition@SCUCS.org
Website: www.scucs.org
Hours: Mon-Fri: 9am–4pm
Contact: Gene Bromke
This agency administers the Home Delivered Meals Program for Camden.
Volunteer Needs: Contact the agency at 856-456-1121 x146.
Volunteer Requirements: Contact the agency