God's Love We Deliver, Inc.

Current research has confirmed what we have championed for decades—that nutritiously tailored diets help prevent disease, alleviate symptoms and treatment side-effects, and restore health. God's Love We Deliver is the only food program in New York City that delivers individualized nutrition to vulnerable populations free of charge. We are dramatically different from a typical food bank or meal program, and uniquely suited to help improve the health of New York's most vulnerable and underserved residents. For example, physical disability and mobility are issues for many of our clients, so we deliver meals to clients' homes. Many clients suffer from diet-related disease complications due to diabetes, kidney disease, chemotherapy, and other diseases or treatment complications. Our team of registered dietitians provides counseling, and works with our chefs to prepare individualized nutrition plans. All of our services are individually tailored to meet the medical needs of people who are too sick to shop or cook for themselves.

We employ a range of strategies to improve the nutritional health of vulnerable populations throughout the New York City area:
• Home-Delivered Meals: Medically tailored meals are prepared in our fully-equipped commercial kitchen by a team of chefs, food service professionals and volunteers. Clients typically receive ten meals per week via one or more home deliveries by paid staff drivers. Our fleet of refrigerated vans ensures food safety during delivery.
• Nutrition Assessment and Counseling: Our Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs) assess all new clients to determine specific nutritional needs. Reassessments occur every 6 months. With this information, our RDNs work with our chefs to design a tailored meal plan for clients and offer ongoing nutrition counseling. RDNs also write and distribute multilingual nutrition education materials to clients, service providers, and the general public. RDNs also collaborate with community partners to conduct nutrition trainings and cooking classes for patients, care providers, and marginalized populations.
• Grocery Bag Program: Clients who transition off our meal program may receive a weekly delivery of healthy foods and recipes. Our partnership with a local Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program provides fresh local vegetables for inclusion in the grocery bags during the growing season.
• Family Support: Our RDNs offer their comprehensive nutrition services to both clients and their children and senior caregivers.

Our individualized nutrition services play a unique and vital role in New York City's health care continuum. More and more care providers in our community are referring their patients to God's Love. Our work is life-affirming and life-saving, helping vulnerable people to live independent lives while reducing the risk of new or repeat hospitalizations. Our services include:
• Client Services: Our Client Services Specialists conduct comprehensive client interviews to confirm eligibility and enroll clients into our programs. Specialists also provide referrals to other community resources as needed.
• Home-Delivered Meals: Medically tailored meals are prepared in our fully-equipped commercial kitchen by a team of chefs, food service professionals and volunteers. Clients typically receive ten meals per week via one or more home deliveries by paid staff drivers or volunteers.
• Nutrition Assessment and Counseling: Our Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs) assess all new clients to determine specific nutritional needs. Reassessments occur every 6 months. With this information, our RDNs work with our chefs to design a tailored meal plan for clients and offer ongoing nutrition counseling. RDNs also write and distribute multilingual nutrition education materials to clients, service providers, and the general public. RDNs also collaborate with community partners to conduct nutrition trainings and cooking classes for patients, care providers, and marginalized populations.
• Grocery Bag Program: Clients who transition off our meal program may receive a weekly delivery of healthy foods and recipes. Our partnership with a local Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program provides fresh local vegetables for inclusion in the grocery bags during the growing season.
• Family Support: Our RDNs offer their comprehensive nutrition services to both clients and their children and senior caregivers.

Recent accomplishments include the following:
• Our Nutrition and Kitchen staff recently expanded our menu with new soft diet options to enhance our services for people who, due to illness, have difficulty chewing and swallowing. Minced and pureed options are also available.
• In 2023 we marked the achievement of our 35 millionth meal delivered.
• Our Policy & Planning team leads an annual Advocacy Capacity Building Project National Symposium in Washington, DC to build grassroots support for food and nutrition services in communities across the country.