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“I feel safe when I’m at the soup kitchen.” “I always feel welcome.” “I know I’m not alone.” Testimonials like these from the people TASK serves show what a powerful impact your support has had on our neighbors in need!

Over the fiscal year ending July 2024, TASK’s output surged 27 percent! The agency served 596,454 meals at 40 community meal sites. We also launched a new mobile soup kitchen and marked a sobering milestone – more than 7 million meals served since 1982.

TASK to honor longtime partner and Cornerstone Community Kitchen founder at our annual BBQ on September 13, 2024

The exhibition, entitled “Philotechnic Transformation,” will be displayed in the Education Gallery from June 29 through August 25, 2024

Today, TASK offers the only culinary academy program of its kind in Mercer County. TASK offers students wraparound support, including workforce training and case management, to bolster their chance of success once they graduate from the program.

TASK is proud to announce that its short film, A Meal Can Change a Life, recently won honorable mention at the Trenton Film Society’s Regional Documentary Festival.

TASK’s Radical Hospitality Coordinator, Anita Rivera, who oversees and manages the dining room, and Case Manager Erykah Jones, who helps to connect people in our community to the resources they need, recently graduated from the prestigious Garden State Leaders program.

TASK’s computer classes help students and jobseekers overcome the digital divide.

“I talk to job seekers about practical things like how to explain gaps in employment, incarceration or other factors by helping them focus on the progress they have made, rather than their mistakes,” said Ulhir.