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Compassion Coalition donates 100 pandemic kits to MVHS

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, Compassion Coalition has donated 100 pandemic kits to Mohawk Valley Health System, including the much-needed N-95 masks. Thank you to MVHS — we appreciate your staff, and all they are doing during this time! Photo by Brian McGowan on Unsplash

Compassion Coalition featured on Fox Business segment

Our founder Mike Servello was recently interviewed by Fox Business News below is the transcription of the interview and you watch the interview here. David Asman: Well, Thanksgiving marking the beginning of the season for giving and many businesses offer support to organizations, like the Compassion Coalition & Bargain Grocery. It’s a non-profit, it’s been working for… [Read More]

Compassion Coalition Founder and CEO in conversation with the New York City Food Policy Center

Mike Servello Sr. spoke with Hunter College’s New York City Food Policy Center on the past, present and future of Bargain Grocery, and how to improve our food system. Read the full interview here.

Bargain Grocery hosts cooking lesson for parents

In May we hosted our first community meeting for Martin Luther King Elementary School’s PAC program in our new commercial kitchen Bargain Grocer! We learned how to make pasta with two sauces with parents, while Proctor ROTC cadets watched the kiddos, then we ate a community meal together. How amazing is it to live in a… [Read More]

Equipped 2 Teach gets an upgrade

In May 2019, we launched our renovated location of Equipped 2 Teach, central New York’s first and only teacher resource center. Our new location is at 506 Columbia Street — where the old Bargain Grocery was located. We are booked for the remainder of this school year, but will be open again in September 2019!… [Read More]

Helping seniors access healthy food through our pop-up grocery store

Compassion Coalition has a long-standing relationship with Utica Municipal Housing Authority’s senior sites. Their mission is to be a leader in the housing industry by providing safe, clean and affordable housing and promoting self-sufficiency, upward mobility, and customer satisfaction. In November 2017, we partnered with UMHA to open a pop-up grocery store for the elderly residents living… [Read More]