Chicken and Soup for the Soul…
Open every Sunday, a day when most other soup kitchens in NYC are closed, the Welcome Table serves an average of 1,000 hot meals. We strive to go beyond the emergency need of food by also providing our guests with assistance in obtaining government benefits and birth certificates, legal referrals, health screenings, and other services.
Guests | Volunteers | Donors | Thanksgiving
Guests
Days of Operation:
Sundays
Hours of Operation:
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Location:
55 West 15th St., between 5th & 6th Aves.
Volunteers
Volunteer Shifts:
Meal Prep: 8:30am–11:30am
Meal Service: 12:00pm–3:30pm
Location:
55 West 15th St., between 5th & 6th Aves.
PLEASE KEEP IN MIND: Many of our guests struggle with health issues and/or do not have access to reliable health care. If you have experienced any symptoms of illness within the last 14 days, please do NOT sign up to volunteer. If you need to cancel your shift, please do so rather than come in sick. Thank you for your consideration!
Donors
Support for the Welcome Table Soup Kitchen comes from the New York Food Bank and generous contributors like you. We accept food items, running a food drive, and of course, monetary donations.
We do accept donations of food items for the Welcome Table, but we request that you contact us before dropping off any food. Please contact the Director of Outreach to find out what items are particularly needed.
Yes! It helps to offset our out-of-pocket costs for the Welcome Table when we receive the proceeds of a food drive. There are two ways to do a drive:
- Set up an online drive at www.YouGiveGoods.com (preferred method)! An online drive has many benefits to the organizer, the donors, and to Xavier Mission. They include:
- Ease of communications: Information about our organization can be included on the food drive website so people can learn about who they are donating to. A link to the online drive can be easily disseminated to your entire email listserv for maximum participation.
- Convenience: An online drive allows people to make a donation to cover the cost of specific food items without having to actually go out and buy the items, and without the organizer having to transport all of the items at the end of the drive. YouGiveGoods will deliver all of the food that was purchased directly to Xavier Mission!
- Maximum effectiveness: An online drive allows the organizer to specify what food items are needed. This greatly helps Xavier Mission to manage our inventory and not end up with food items that we cannot use, that are damaged, or that are expired. Organizers can contact Xavier Mission to find out what items are most needed and include those items on the online list.
- A traditional in-house food drive, where people drop off donations to a specified location.
Please contact the Director of Outreach if you would like to organize a food drive for Xavier Mission.
Absolutely! Please visit our Donation page for information about monetary donations.