Help Delivery Thanksgiving Meals to Brooklyn Seniors - Park Slope Center of Successful Aging

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Heights and Hills is preparing for another Thanksgiving! The past four years we have been able to reach more of our catchment area through meal deliveries and will be continuing those deliveries this year. We understand the in-person Thanksgiving dinner for Brooklyn’s older adults is a special and longstanding tradition for the community, but we hope you will be able to join us in extending this tradition to more of our wonderful community members. Our organization will continue to collaborate with the Service Collective, BloomAgain, the Packer Collegiate Institute, and other community partners to fulfill this wonderful day of service and thanks.

We continue to honor the spirit of this event by focusing our resources on delivering Thanksgiving meals to Heights and Hills’ most vulnerable homebound clients. These older adults are experiencing the chronic challenges of being homebound and isolated day in and day out, and we want to be sure they are not forgotten on a holiday that can be especially difficult for those living alone.

We will continue our tradition of accepting pie donations to be included in this year’s meal deliveries. Please see below for link to sign up to bake or buy a pie to drop by our downtown Brooklyn office on Wednesday 11/27 from noon to 4 pm.

If you are not able to volunteer for Thanksgiving this year, please consider a contribution to support our impactful work. Thank you!
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Thank you for your interest! Help deliver 300 holiday meals to homebound older adults in Brooklyn by car!, public transportation, or on foot on Thanksgiving Day, November 28. Delivery time commitment is about 1-2.5 hours and we would love folks with cars to sign up!

Volunteers will pick up meals in Park Slope from the Park Slope Center of Successful Aging to make deliveries to homebound clients of Heights and Hills by car/bike, public transportation, or foot in the surrounding neighborhoods. Volunteers on foot must be willing to carry 2 to 4 meals, 2-4 locations, (bags provided) and walk to destinations up to 15-25 minutes away from the meeting place. Volunteers using cars/bikes must be willing to deliver to up to 5 locations throughout Brooklyn. May need to enter apartment buildings and climb stairs. Families welcome!

Deliveries cover a wide geographic area, it's best if couples or families sign up for no more than 2 slots to deliver meals together. Neighborhoods include: Brownsville, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Windsor Terrace, Prospect Heights, and Prospect Lefferts Garden.

Project Details:

• 30 Volunteers needed between 9:30 am - 11:00 am. Please select the time you expect to pick up meals and transportation expected to use for deliveries that day. (PLEASE NOTE: If the time slot you prefer is filled you will be asked to deliver during an available time slot)
• Pick-up Location: Park Slope Center of Successful Aging - 463A 7th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
• Preference for folks with cars and bikes.

Form for Delivery Sign up - https://forms.office.com/r/m2mECGWn2D
Form for Pie Donation - https://forms.office.com/r/0XbFR94iqn

If you would like to assist in delivery set up or other volunteer work on Thanksgiving day please email our Volunteer Program Director, Adina Matos, at amatos@heightsandhills.org.