Provide essential care supplies for struggling New Yorkers

Community Kits started with a simple mission: to spread joy and kindness during the holidays and beyond.

Each Thanksgiving, we would build bags of essential hygiene and food items, and set off on a journey to hand them out to the unhoused community in our neighborhood in New York. Last year, we welcomed our Friendsgiving guests into our holiday tradition and assembled 200 kits, which we donated to the Bowery Mission.

Now, we are hoping to expand our network of kit builders so that we can provide essentials to communities is need year-round… and hope you will join us!

In May, we will be hosting our first-ever Community Kits event at Black Crescent on the Lower East Side, where we will build up to 400 kits to be donated through the Coalition for the Homeless.

These kits will be distributed via their Grand Central Food Program. The GCFP is the largest mobile soup kitchen in America, serving between 800 - 1200 people a day from New York’s unhoused community.

We invite you to support this project by donating funds for kit supplies. 100% of proceeds will go towards the costs of the kits, which will include hygiene and food essentials.

Our hope is that this upcoming event is just the beginning and the first of many throughout the year to support the needs in our local community and beyond.

Thank you!

Meaghan & Michael