Free Food & Services

Free Food & Services

Find a food pantry near you and explore the free services that can help you and your family.

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Apply for Food Assistance

Apply for Food Assistance Programs

Get free help applying for Food Assistance Programs and accessing the benefits available to you and your family.

Apply For WIC 

Apply For SNAP

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Job Training

Job Training

Sign up for one of CFBNJ’s free job training programs that can prepare you for a career in the culinary or logistics industries.

 

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Healthy Recipes

Healthy Recipes

Healthy recipes, cooking videos, and tips are all here. Browse through the info provided by our Nutrition Education team to get the most out of your grocery budget without compromising on nutrition.

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Donate

Donate

Learn about all the ways to give a monetary gift, including recurring donations, planned gifts, tributes, and more to CFBNJ to lift up our neighbors.

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Volunteer

Volunteer

Explore the many opportunities to volunteer – whether that is packing food with your company, family, and friends at either our Hillside or Egg Harbor Township locations, distributing healthy food at one of our partners, or making phone calls from the comfort of your home.

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Advocate

Advocate

Take action to support our advocacy efforts that address the root causes of hunger and learn more about how CFBNJ collaborates with legislators.

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Fundraise

Fundraise

Coordinate a virtual or in-person fundraiser with friends, family, or coworkers.

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Donate Food & Goods

Donate Food & Goods

Over one-third of our food is donated by generous supporters like you. Set up a food or special product drive, join our retail food donation program, and more.

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Make a Corporate Donation

Make a Corporate Donation

Manufacturers, retailers, corporations, and small businesses can donate food, funds, and time.

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Events

Events

Attend a CFBNJ event to show your support and meet other like-minded supporters.

Bake For Good

SOUPER Bowl Saturday

24-Hour Pack-a-Thon

Blue Jean Ball

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Youth

Youth

Opportunities for youth engagement includes fundraising, food drives, and service days.

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Sign Up to Volunteer

Sign Up to Volunteer

Sign up to sort and pack food with your company, family, and friends at either our Hillside or Egg Harbor locations.

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Corporate Groups

Corporate Groups

Use your next company outing to give back to your community.

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Special Volunteer Programs

Special Volunteer Programs

View the opportunities available for regular volunteers to level up their participation at CFBNJ.

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Youth

Special Volunteer Programs

Opportunities for youth engagement includes fundraising, food drives, and service days.

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About Us

About Us

Discover how our journey began almost 50 years ago, and how we are committed to ending hunger in New Jersey.

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Our Programs

Learn about what we do to help our neighbors in need.

Learn about what we do to help our neighbors in need.

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How a FoodBank Works

How a FoodBank Works

Understand how food and hygiene supplies get from our two warehouses to your community.

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Leadership

Leadership

Meet our executive leadership team and Board of Directors.

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Annual Report & Financials

Annual Report & Financials

Get a clear picture of our finances, how our programs impact the community, and how it all ties together.

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Careers

Careers

Check out our career opportunities and don’t miss a chance to put your talents to work for a great purpose.

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News & Press

Keep up to date with the latest news about our work to end hunger.

Keep up to date with the latest news about our work to end hunger.

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Our Locations

Locations

We have locations in Hillside and Egg Harbor Township, each with their own events and volunteering opportunities.

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Strategic Plan

Strategic Plan

Explore the roadmap of the future of CFBNJ and how we plan on helping hungry neighbors going forward.

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Diaper Need in New Jersey – Where To Find Free Diapers

Diaper Need in New Jersey – Where To Find Free Diapers

Diaper Need in New Jersey – Where To Find Free Diapers 1280 550 CFBNJ

September is Diaper Action Month- and the Community FoodBank of New Jersey is bringing awareness to the 1 in 3 families in America that struggle with diaper need. Faced with impossible choices, families will often forego other necessities such as rent, food, or utilities to afford diapers.

What is diaper need?

Diapers and other non-food baby essentials can make lasting dents in the finances of low-income families as they are not federally funded by public assistance programs such as SNAP (formerly food stamps) or WIC. On average, babies require 12 diapers a day and when diapers are purchased individually, that can add up to over $100 a month for a family.

Without an adequate supply of diapers, children not only face health problems related to hygiene, but are also unable to participate in early childhood education, activities, and daycares, preventing caregivers from working- keeping families in a cycle of poverty.

This is where CFBNJ can help. As a member of various partnerships allowing for bulk purchasing, we can source more diapers with a single dollar compared to what families could purchase individually. With just $1, we are able to purchase 6 diapers, covering half a day’s worth of diaper needs.

Where can New Jersey families get free diapers?

As a member of the National Diaper Bank Network, CFBNJ seeks to address diaper need by distributing diapers to over 100 agency partners throughout New Jersey.

New Jersey families can receive free diapers, formula, and other baby essentials at many CFBNJ food pantries and partner agencies, but please call ahead to ensure supply is available. Other pantries and charitable organizations that distribute baby essentials can be found in the New Jersey 211 directory as well.

Families can also receive free baby essentials by:

  • Asking your doctor’s office. Doctors might have an available supply for their clients if necessary.
  • Signing up with major diaper companies to receive free products, coupons, discount opportunities, and other promotional materials. Companies that are known to do this are Bambo Nature, GoodNites, Huggies, Luvs, Pampers, and Seventh Generation.
  • Reaching out directly to diaper manufacturers to request samples of their products. Most manufacturers are willing to send customers a free sample package of all their products.

How to help with diaper need

If you’d like to join us in the fight against Diaper Need, consider donating to or hosting your own virtual Diaper Drive as part of our #GreatBigDiaperDrive initiative. Hosting a virtual fundraiser from your home is one of the easiest, yet most effective, ways to help families in need.

The Women Fighting Hunger initiative has worked with CFBNJ to create templates, graphics, and statistics into a #GreatBigDiaperDrive toolkit available at your disposal to run a successful campaign to donate diapers, wipes, and creams to a family in need. Take advantage of our digital assets and fundraise money for our youngest neighbors in need.

If you would like to help in other ways, you can still make use of the statistics and #GreatBigDiaperDrive toolkit provided. Some other ideas to help include:

  • Hosting a physical diaper drive:
    Gather your family, friends, schoolmates, coworkers, and community members to collect diapers, wipes, creams, and other baby essentials. Different activities that can include a diaper drive may be school, sports team, or club fundraiser activities, company activities, birthday parties, or at your religious institution. Contact one of our agency partners to secure a location to deliver all donated items to afterwards. If you are unable to find an agency partner near you, contact the Women Fighting Hunger at CFBNJ.
  • Raising diaper need awareness in your community:
    Who’s your most important community? Is it your family, school, religious institution, workplace, book club, sports team, social media? Whoever it is, speak with your community members about how American families are still struggling with the need for diapers and other baby essentials.

There are statistics and social media copy available in our #GreatBigDiaperDrive that can assist you in educating your friends, family, coworkers, and community about this critical issue.  Whether you want to assist New Jersey’s families in need or are looking for diapers for your baby, CFBNJ and our agency partners can help. Learn more about our hygiene programs.

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