Resources
Hunger Advocacy
Find Your Legislator
End Hunger Connecticut!
Connecticut Foodshare
Foodshare: Greater Hartford CT Regional Foodshare
End Hunger
Bread for the World
Feeding America
Center on Hunger and Poverty
MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger
Oxfam America
Poverty USA: Catholic Campaign for Human Development
The Hunger Site
Rock and Wrap It Up!
Recommended Reading
Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement
by Janet Popendieck
The Betrayal of Work
by Beth Shulman
Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Just Generosity
by Ronald Sider
The Working Poor
by David Shipler
One Nation Underprivileged
by Mark Rank
The Second Bill of Rights; FDR's Unfinished Revolution
by Cass Sustein
The State of Working America
(Updated every year by the Economic Policy Institute)
All You Can Eat
by Joel Berg
Online Resources
211 Connecticut: https://www.211ct.org/
UniteCT Rental Assistance Program:
The goal of UniteCT is to help stabilize Connecticut’s Rental Housing Market. This program will provide rental and utility payment assistance to qualified CT households financially impacted by COVID 19. Launch date Monday, March 15th – Please help your neighbors know about this important new program.
Download flyers here: English; Portuguese; Spanish; UniteCT Overview
Programs That Help People in Connecticut - 2012-2014 edition (Connecticut Light & Power)download here.
Meal Planning Assistance:
https://snaped.fns.usda.gov/nutrition-education/snap-ed-recipes
Ideas for cooking vegetables: Download here.
How to Eat on $4.00 a Day
http://www.leannebrown.ca/cookbooks/
Estuary Council of Seniors- Meals on Wheels
220 Main St,
Old Saybrook, CT 06475
(860)388-1611
ALICE information (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed)
Meet Alice
https://alice.ctunitedway.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2018-ALICE-Executive-Summary-10-28-18.pdf
Alice: A Study of Financial Hardship in Connecticut
https://alice.ctunitedway.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CT-United-Ways-2018-ALICE-Report-8.13.18_Hires.pdf
Educator Toolkits
SSKP is now able to do virtual educational programs for all ages. Click here to see a worksheet from our program "Food Insecurity". To arrange for a virtual program, contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 860-388-1988.
Request a Speaker
It is vital that our communities engage in dialogue that leads to alleviating local hunger. A presentation by The Shoreline Soup Kitchens & Pantries can be the start.
Call 860-388-1988 to arrange for a SSKP representative to speak to your faith community, civic group or class.