The collaborating agencies are among the largest and best known not-for-profits serving Westchester County.  Each has a mission to provide basic services to the most vulnerable residents of the county so that they can develop self sufficiency.  Each agency specializes in providing one or more of the three cornerstones of the Entrée to Hope promotion.  Their combined vision is to share resources to reach a common goal of serving the needy by providing FOOD, SHELTER & EDUCATION:

• The Food Bank for Westchester is the backbone of Westchester’s emergency food distribution network, providing over 95% of all the food distributed by 190 grass roots programs such as food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and residential programs, helping to feed hungry Westchester children and their families.  
  For more information, visit www.foodbankforwestchester.org
  
  
• Grace Church Community Center is a non-sectarian, social services agency that annually assists more than 3,000 of Westchester County’s neediest men, women and children through its nine programs.  Services include three shelters, a soup kitchen, eviction prevention services and an after-school mentoring program for homeless and disadvantaged children.  
  For more information, visit www.gracecommunitycenter.org/
  
  
• Literacy Volunteers of Westchester County, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to “reaching the hardest to reach and teaching the hardest to teach:” American-born adults with poor literacy skills due to lack of opportunity, or undiagnosed learning differences; and non-English speaking adults who may have low literacy in their home languages, either for economic reasons or because their own language lacks written form. 
  For more information, visit www.literacywestchester.org