Local Mission
Grace Food Partnership
Our congregation collaborates with the Hastings Farmers Market and Stoneledge Farm Community Supported Agriculture to collect fresh food and distribute it where it is needed most. This ministry responds to the Gospel commission to feed the hungry. Food Partners include:
The San Andres (Iglesia San Andres) Food Pantry – Food distribution in an Episcopal church serving the Latino community in South Yonkers.
Food Donation
Our congregation also regularly collects non-perishable food for the Hastings Youth Council and the Yonkers Food Pantry providing services for local families in need.
Hastings Family-to-Family – An organization providing food from one local family to another.
Rural & Migrant Ministry
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Hope, justice, and empowerment in rural NY through Accompaniment, Popular Education, and Youth Empowerment
$25: Supports one youth at summer camp
$50: Legal Advocacy
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friends of the hastings youth council
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Providing services for local families in need.
$25: Supports dinner for a family of four
$75: Supports a week’s groceries for a family of four
$50-$100: For updated games, arts & crafts supplies, and activities for the free after-school program at the community center
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IGLESIA SAN ANDRÉS COMMUNITY CENTER
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Food distribution in an Episcopal church serving the Latino community in South Yonkers.
$30: Provide a Thanksgiving meal (turkey + fittings) for a family
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HOLY APOSTLES SOUP KITCHEN
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Currently the largest emergency feeding program in NYC and in the Episcopal Church nationally.
$50: Feeds a meal to fifty people
$150: Fresh green salad for one day (feeds 1,000 people)
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RIVERTOWNS FOR REFUGEES
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A local volunteer group formed primarily by residents of Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington & Hastings-on-Hudson, who provide direct aid, relief, and support to documented refugees, asylums, and in-kind donations.
$10: toward school supplies
$20: toward medical needs not covered by Medicaid or prior to Medicaid being available
$50: Toward rent until jobs are attained
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914united westchester
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A program-based mentoring for non-profit organization working to educate, empower, and enrich the youth and the justice-involved within the Lower Hudson Valley.
$25: Toward Uber transportation ($500 is needed average)
$50: Toward career readiness and financial literacy coaching for youth ($750 covers 6-weeks)
$50: Toward youth mentor ($1,250 covers one year)
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NORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT
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Offering children and families innovative programs and support to help them overcome adversity and thrive.
$25+: Donations support enrichment activities for youth, therapeutic toys for mental health clinics, and classroom supplies for young learners
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groundwork hudson valley
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Creates sustainable environmental change in urban neighborhoods through community-based partnerships.
$25+: Donations support the Science Barge Campaign & environmental education, climate safe neighborhoods, and Saw Mill River daylighting
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the loft community center
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Provides services for the LGBTQ+ Community in Westchester County and the Lower Hudson Valley.
$25+: Donations support essential LGBTQ+ advocacy, support & education for individuals & families, and social activities & special events
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FAMILY-TO-FAMILY
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A hunger and poverty relief organization dedicated to providing food, personal hygiene products, and other basic life essentials to Rivertown families as well as Veterans, refugees, Holocaust survivors, and families in need around the U.S.
$30: One new pair o children’s pajamas
$60: Holiday gifts for two children, includes wrapping paper
$90: Holiday gifts for three children, includes wrapping paper
$125: A grocery gift card for a Rivertown Family for the holidays
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kids upcycling club
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A student-run organization combating plastic waster in our community. Teaching younger children how to recycle and push toward a fully renewable future creatively.
$5-$10: Towards the Ocean Cleanup Project
$5-$10: Towards Kids Upcycling Club
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PARENTING CHILDREN OF COLOR (P-COC INC.)
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Advancing their mission through educational journeys, ensuring that every individual has the opportunity to flourish, unimpeded by barriers of race, color, and ethnicity.
$25+: Toward operational support of Organization, such as tabling engagements with public converations about societal equity and equitable co-exisence and other operational related work ($500 is needed per intern)
$25, $50, $75 $100: Donation amounts support their work through education, advocacy, and outreach
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riverkeeper
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Riverkeeper protects and restores the Hudson River from source to sea and safeguards drinking water supplies, through advocacy rooted in community partnerships, science and law.
$13: Can test one water sample for contamination
$20: Can remove 70 pounds of trash from Hudson River shorelines
$50: Can fuel our boat for a 30-mile patrol of the Hudson River
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release aging people in prison (rapp)
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Led by formerly incarcerated people and family members of people in prison, RAPP works to end mass incarceration and promote racial justice through the release of aging people in prison and those serving long sentences.
$50: Support transportation for one of our members to visit their loved ones in prison
$100: For the honorarium one of our formerly incarcerated member’s to lead a press conference or town hall
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moms demand action (for gun sense america)
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Moms Demand Action is a grassroots movement of Americans fighting for public safety measures that can protect people from gun violence. They pass stronger gun laws and work to close the loopholes that jeopardize the safety of our families.
$25+: When you make a grassroots contribution to Moms Demand Action and Everytown, you're helping fuel our volunteer-driven movement for a future free from gun violence. Your generous donation helps us continue critical work to save lives.
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the shamoya mckenzie foundation
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The Shamoya McKenzie Foundation's mission is to provide educational and physical programs, reaching across communities, to ensure that children do not become members of street gangs. As well as to provide scholarships to deserving graduating middle and high school students.
$50: Purchase a new backpack and school supplies for a student
$100: Cover the application fees for a young person applying to college
$250: Support a young person’s visit to a prospective college
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hudson river community sailing
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Hudson River Community Sailing (HRCS) is a non-profit youth development and community sailing organization with locations in Chelsea and Inwood. We develop leadership and academic success in underserved New York City youth through partnerships with public schools, and our diverse and vibrant community sailing center provides maritime education and recreation to the city at large.
$25, $50, $75, $100: Donation amounts support maritime education and maritime recreation
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share the project
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SHARE is an organization providing Service to the Community, invested in sharing students’ time in acts geared to making a difference in the larger community. Our projects in New York have included monthly Midnight Runs, the Thanksgiving Dinner for the Homeless, Empty Bowls, AIDSWalkNY, Crossing Borders, and more.
$10: Helps provide someone with a new warm hat, gloves and a scarf
$20: Helps provide a holiday meal for a family of four
$50: Helps us toward baking 250 apple and pumpkin pies
$100: Helps provide dinner for 20 guests
$500: Helps provide bus transportation to and from our dinner
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alternative gifts market
Our History:
Since 1994, Grace Episcopal Church has hosted The Alternative Gifts Market (AGM) and inspired the community to raise over $250,000 for global and local organizations that address poverty, hunger, healthcare, human rights, social justice, literacy and education, disabilities and environmental obstacles. All proceeds of the market are forwarded directly to designated organizations, nonprofit relief and development agencies, and craft cooperatives.
In 1993, The Rev. Betty Hudson proposed the idea of hosting an Alternative Gifts Market at Grace Church. John and Joan Kassebaum organized the first Alternative Gift Market in 1994. For 30 years countless members of Grace Episcopal Church have worked tirelessly to organize and host the Alternative Gifts Market for the community.
The Alternative Gifts Market is a two-day event, providing the opportunity to find a gift for the person who already has it all, for the person who may not want a physical gift, or for many other persons who would enjoy knowing that a donation of money or time went to a good cause.
In 2008 The Rev. Anna Pearson expanded the Alternative Gifts Market to support local organizations. Over the years the Hastings Food Pantry, Family to Family, and organizations throughout Westchester County and New York City have been recipients of needed funds raised by the AGM. Local giving continues to grow each year.
In 2020 and through the pandemic, the Alternative Gifts Market continued, online, then outside on the Grace campus in pop-up tents. We discovered that being outside made the market more visible to the community.
Today, the Alternative Gifts Market continues to support organizations in Hastings, the Rivertowns, Westchester County, New York City and New York State. We invite a wide range of organizations that address poverty, hunger, healthcare, human rights, social justice, literacy, education, disabilities, LGBTQ+ rights and the environment and we welcome your support.
Breakfast Run
Grace partners with the local Youth Advocate's office to sponsor regular Breakfast Runs into Manhattan, distributing hot breakfast, coffee, toiletries and clothes to homeless people in various parks throughout the city. Check out this year’s opportunity below!
