In addition to our two feeding programs, All Souls supports the efforts of the Yorkville Common Pantry in East Harlem. The Church helped organize that program in conjunction with other religious neighborhood institutions in the early 1980s and after a brief lapse, began to collect monthly food collections again after 9/11. Since then, the need for food help has skyrocketed all over the city as more people lost their jobs year by year. Today, the Pantry relies on the collections by member churches and synagogues to help fill weekly bags of groceries for its growing list of clients in addition to feeding hundreds of hungry people daily in their three-times-a-day soup kitchens. We collect the items suggested each month by the Yorkville Common Pantry.