Jose Medina’s Healthy Corner Store, Member of the Camden Corner Store Owners Association. Photo provided by The Food Trust.
Who We Are
Led by our backbone organization, the Food Bank of South Jersey, the Camden Food Security Collective is a coordinated community that fosters food security through structural equity and seeks to engage a broad set of stakeholders to address the upstream causes of food security in Camden and create equitable, lasting solutions for food security in Camden by 2031.
About the Food Bank of South Jersey
The Food Bank of South Jersey believes that no one should go to bed hungry. Since 1985, it has served the children, families, and seniors of Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Salem counties by distributing safe and healthy food, providing nutrition education and cooking courses, and developing sustainable pathways for neighbors to improve their lives. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and member of Feeding America, FBSJ distributed 15.4 million meals in 2022, through direct distributions and its network of more than 200 partner agencies. In 2021, FBSJ started laying the foundation for enacting the sustainability mandate of its mission through the inclusion of SNAP Outreach, voter registration, vaccination education, and the aforementioned partnership with the Camden Coalition to serve a co-backbone partner for the new Camden Food Security Collective.
To learn more about the Food Bank of South Jersey, please visit the website below.
Members
- Benefits Data Trust
- Camden City School District
- Camden Coalition
- Camden Community Partnership
- Camden County College
- Camden Dream Center
- Cathedral Kitchen
- Center For Family Services
- Community Foundation of South Jersey
- Community Planning and Advocacy Council
- Cooper University Healthcare
- Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
- Food Bank of South Jersey
- Gateway CAP
- HopeWorks
- Horizon BCBSNJ
- KIPP New Jersey
- Norma’s Restaurant
- Nyame Nti Urban Farm
- Parkside Business & Community in Partnership
- ResearchSHARE
- Rutgers University-Camden
- Salvation Army Camden Kroc Center
- SNAP-Ed – Rutgers Camden
- Southern NJ Development Council
- Subaru of America
- The Food Trust
- United Health Care
- Urban Health Institute of Cooper
- Virtua Health
- Wholesome Riches
- YMCA
Research and Evaluation Partner
Inaugural Committee Members
- Asociación de Empresarios Unidos
- Camden City School District
- Camden Community Partnership
- Community residents
- Cathedral Kitchen
- Center for Family Services
- City of Camden DHS
- Community Planning and Advocacy Council
- Horizon BCBSNJ
- Human Biology
- Hunger Free America
- KIPP New Jersey
- Modivcare
- Movimiento Tricolor
- PBCIP
- Subaru of America
- The Food Trust
- Urban Health Institute of Cooper
- Virtual Health
- Wholesome Riches
Founding Co-Backbones
Inaugural Committee Members
- Asociación de Empresarios Unidos
- Camden City School District
- Camden Community Partnership
- Community residents
- Cathedral Kitchen
- Center for Family Services
- City of Camden DHS
- Community Planning and Advocacy Council
- Horizon BCBSNJ
- Human Biology
- Hunger Free America
- KIPP New Jersey
- Modivcare
- Movimiento Tricolor
- PBCIP
- Subaru of America
- The Food Trust
- Urban Health Institute of Cooper
- Virtual Health
- Wholesome Riches