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SNAP Outage: Amid the chaos surrounding SNAP food stamp funding in early November, WPRI 12 showed how Your Neighborhood Food Pantry has been trying to handle the situation.

While the immediate crisis has passed, SNAP cuts are nevertheless scheduled for late 2025 into 2026. (See RI impacts here.)

Please watch the video clip and consider donating here. And thanks to all of you who have already stepped up in this time of need!

Happy New Year!

Here's wishing everyone a peaceful and secure 2026.

It's been a tough 2025, but we all pulled through together, with the support of YNFP's partners, donors and volunteers.

In thanks, please read the annual letter from our chairman, by clicking the arrow to the right.

As 2025 moves into the rearview mirror, I want to send heartfelt thanks from Your Neighborhood Food Pantry to everyone who showed up this year with empathy, generosity, and care.

Together, we’ve chosen compassion over indifference and responsibility over looking the other way. We’ve helped turn moments of hardship into moments of relief, dignity, and hope — sometimes with nothing more complicated than good food, kind faces, and the belief that people matter.

When times feel harsh, you organize food drives. When the world feels noisy, you stay grounded in truth: that everyone deserves well-being, opportunity, and a sense of peace. And when it’s easy to worry there isn’t enough to go around, you remind us — again and again — that generosity creates abundance.

Thank you for standing with us this year and for helping build a community where care is practical, hope is shared, and no one has to face hunger alone.

Here's to a New Year of peace and goodwill!

Zachary Oz
Chairman of the Board

Brown Daily Herald Features YNFP

Earlier this year, YNFP Executive Director Jacqueline Watson-Gardiner shared her views on federal cuts to food assistance with the Brown Daily Herald.

Many Rhode Islanders find that their incomes are not enough to cover the rising costs of living in Rhode Island, and Watson-Gardiner described how this financial strain has brought many families to the food pantry.

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Each year, Giving Tuesday is the day when millions of people across the globe come together to celebrate generosity, share kindness and drive philanthropic giving.

Providence Monthly joined in this global movement by shining a spotlight on local problems and solutions. We're so gratified to have shared that spotlight with Providence nonprofits who are all part of the solution.

You can read the article here.

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