PATERSON — Passaic County’s largest food pantry has reopened after being closed several days last week because a shooting took place outside its facility on Ellison Street, near Paterson’s P-Tech High ...

CUMAC is the largest anti-hunger organization in Passaic County. Since the start of the pandemic, the food pantry in Paterson has been in crisis-relief mode for 22 consecutive weeks. They have not ...

PATERSON, N.J. and TRENTON, N.J., Dec. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Two nonprofits addressing New Jersey's economic mobility and underserved neighborhoods will expand their impact footprint with help from ...

FRANKLIN LAKES — Imagine 100 5-pound bags of apples and you have some idea of how much produce was grown at two community gardens this summer for distribution through the CUMAC food pantry in Paterson ...

Jeni Mastrangelo, left, and Diane Ysouf help bring food from CUMAC’s (Center of United Methodist Aid to the community) mobile food distribution vans to SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) ...

PATERSON — The largest food pantry in Passaic County has received a $250,000 funding boost from the New Jersey Legislature, but the nonprofit still has a budget gap in 2025. Officials at the ...

On the outside, the CUMAC building looks like a nondescript warehouse on a side street in downtown Paterson. But walk inside, and you’ll find not only a large storage room filled with canned goods but ...

For CUMAC, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting hunger in New Jersey, feeding thousands of hungry clients every month means that food must be picked up on a daily basis. CUMAC has a ...