WHAT IS FAMILY-TO-FAMILY?

We’re a grassroots, hunger-relief nonprofit organization that links families with “more” to families with profoundly less, in some of America’s poorest communities.

Our mission? To ease the burden of poverty and hunger in a direct, meaningful way by providing struggling American families with a reliable, monthly grocery supplement that puts food on the table the last week of the month. That’s when SNAP benefits (food stamps) are often used up and cupboards are bare.

At the same time, we provide our donors with hands-on, personal ways to give and connect with the family or individual they’re helping.

Choose the type of sponsorship that means the most to you. Our 4 sponsorship programs help American families, veterans, refugees, and elderly Holocaust survivors, all living in profound poverty.

Then sign up!  Sponsor a family, a veteran, a refugee family, or a Holocaust survivor with a recurring monthly donation.

We’ll use your donation to purchase groceries every month (or grocery gift cards) for the family or individual you’re linked to. You’ll receive names, ages, and other details about them, and in most cases can exchange letters and send extra items or gifts.

Join our annual Thanksgiving Turkey Drive,  and help make Thanksgiving happen for a family struggling to get by. Our goal is to provide all the families in our program with a turkey plus a side, so they can celebrate Thanksgiving around the table with family and friends.

Or donate to our annual Passover Dinner Drive… and provide a Seder holiday meal to a Holocaust survivor in need. We hope to give every struggling senior in our program a grocery gift card for traditional Passover food items such as brisket, matzo ball soup, gefilte fish, potato kugel, and flourless cake. Many of the elderly survivors we sponsor are existing on less than $15,000 a year, so extra holiday foods are simply not in the budget.

Shop for and send the family you’re sponsoring “extra” non-food basics each month from our suggested list of “Monthly Drives.”

Many of the families we help are eligible for SNAP benefits (food stamps), but SNAP can’t be used for non-food items. That means everyday necessities like shampoo, tampons, toilet paper, paper towels, diapers, and toothpaste are too often hard to come by.  As a sponsor, we encourage you to shop for your sponsored family and send monthly care packages, even birthday gifts! It’s a hands-on way to give, and a concrete way to make the giving experience real for your kids.

Sign up to be a “Book Angel,” and send one new book every month to a book-hungry elementary school classroom.

Schools located in low income neighborhoods often don’t have extra resources to purchase books for their individual classroom libraries. You can help! Imagine how quickly we can fill a classroom if you and a handful of other donors each send one book every month of the school year to a classroom in need. With your help, the kids will have plenty of books to choose from to either read in the classroom or borrow and take home.

Be a Holiday Angel and make the December holidays happen for the mom, dad and kids in one family in need. We provide the wish lists, and you do the shopping! The unwrapped toys, gifts and wrapping paper you send will allow mom and dad to be the “givers” and provide presents for their own children, a meaningful gift all by itself.

Or Stuff a Stocking for a child in need. For moms and dads living in profound poverty, paying the rent and putting food on the table is the priority, so holiday extras are often out of reach. Fill a holiday stocking with small toys and goodies for one child (we have plenty of suggestions!), and we’ll direct you on where to send, or drop it off.