It’s no secret that one of the immediate sights to behold when you walk into Bargain Grocery at 1110 Lincoln Ave is the bounty of beautifully colored produce displays. Oranges, apples, bananas, artichokes, broccoli, an array of artisan lettuces; oh and what about those strange-looking veggies that we don’t know about?! We love to try […]
Bargain Grocery expansion aims to help more people in our communities
We did it! We lived, we learned, we expanded! On December 3, 2018, our dream came true! We launched our very first brick and mortar grocery store in West Utica. 1110 Lincoln Ave has been hustlin’ and bustlin’ with cars since our opening day, and we couldn’t be prouder of our staff, and grateful to […]
Stay In Your Lane To Create Lasting Change!
My entire professional career has been in the non profit world, and what has always amazed me is the duplication of services by a million different titles and names, yet when you narrow down exactly what these programs are doing in our communities, a lot of them are exactly the same at the root. Compassion […]
Hunger and Waste, What Can I Do About It? PART ONE:
I kicked off my professional career working in a victims crime unit of a police department on the West Coast. If you would have asked me all those years ago that maybe one day I would be working day in and day out to solve the issue of food accessibility and equality in a food […]
4 Facts About Compassion Coalition with CEO and Founder Michael Servello Sr.
1. What spurred you to start Compassion Coalition? We started in 2000 as a result of seeing the increasing unmet needs of the less fortunate of our area were experiencing. I was heading out of town on a business trip and picked up our local newspaper, and the front page showed that food pantries were […]
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