Collecting and donating healthy meals for the community
Princeton, Tuesday, January 12, 2020 — The Princeton, NJ-based non-profit Share My Meals Inc. is announcing two new members to its board of trustees, Karen Lemon and Diana Pecina. Share My Meals is the only organization in the Princeton region dedicated to alleviating hunger by reducing food waste. “We are delighted to welcome Karen and […]
The COVID pandemic is impacting the vulnerable population and New Jersey is now estimated to have close to an additional half a million food-insecure residents, on top of the 900,000 who faced food insecurity before the health emergency began, according to the Community FoodBank of New Jersey. This is true in Princeton as well where […]
Did you know that almost half (40% actually) of the food that is made in this country goes to the trash? Many people don’t have enough food to eat every day. This is not good and this is why we have created Share My Meals We want to share the food that restaurants and cafeterias […]
Last week Share My Meals had a dialogue around “Pronouns, gender-inclusive language, and transgender identities”. Priscille Bourquelot, one of our volunteers, passionately trying to be an ally for diversity and promoting inclusion and equity, shared her learnings around this theme. Here are a few nuggets: Did you know that the use of “they/them” for singular […]
Share My Meals is working with Kendy Perez a 19-year-old Mercer County Community College biology student. Kendy started sewing face masks last July to be able to afford her college books for the semester. “Most of the people I saw were wearing plain facemasks. And I thought it would be great if people had something […]
Princeton, NJ — Tuesday, September 1st, 2020 — As the pandemic continues to impact the economy more people struggle with hunger in Princeton. Share My Meals is looking for volunteers to pick-up and deliver healthy meals to recipients’ homes. Share My Meals is a non-profit organization run by volunteers that aims to alleviate hunger and […]
Princeton, NJ — June 23, 2020 — Marina Vorojeykina Ahun, a Princeton fine art artist born in the former Soviet Union, has always managed to rebuild her life. Once, after being persecuted for her Christian Orthodox faith in Uzbekistan and immigrating to the U.S., and again, after a fire destroyed everything she owned. With the […]
Gleen Wright is one of the 40 volunteers working for Share My Meals.In this video, we meet him as he’s picking-up trays of prepared meals from the Trattoria Procaccini, one of the three restaurants cooking for the Princeton community in need. Glenn has been delivering food for Share My Meals since April 2020.He said he […]
Share My Meals, which only started its activities in January 2020, became a mid-size organization run by seven board members and a team of 35 volunteers. As our workload has considerably increased, we are currently working on a plan to include talented people from the community we serve to our daily operations and to make […]
We are delighted to inform you that some of the people we have helped at the peak of the pandemic have temporarily withdrawn themselves from our program or have asked to reduce the frequency of the meals delivered now that they are back to work and less in need. At the same time, we are […]