My Experience Volunteering – 2025 Join Intern

This weekend I had the opportunity to volunteer at the Sunday serving session with my mom. She had never been to Yad Ezra before, so it was cool to see her experience everything for the first time. Also, this was my first time doing it on my own. I had volunteered during a Monday serving […]

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What is Kosher?

Yad Ezra is a kosher supplemental food pantry which means we provide additional food to supplement our clients’ diets. Each client gets an allotted amount of food each month that should last them 4 weeks, but in conjunction with other food they get from somewhere else. So now that we have that part covered, what […]

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Non Profits

Around the world, there are many non-profits that help people with many different things, and many people know the more famous ones like Red Cross, Feeding America, and YMCA, but what is a nonprofit? According to Cornell Law School, a non-profit organization is “a group organized for purposes other than generating profit and in which […]

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Food Insecurity in 2025

Food insecurity is a substantial problem in the United States and around the world. Around 13.5% of United States households (1in 7) were food insecure at some time during 2024, which is about 18 million households. In terms of individuals, around 47 million people in the United States are food insecure (Feeding America, 2024). Unfortunately, […]

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