e.terra Cares
e.terra Kitchen was founded with a simple but powerful goal: to support the culinary community by providing production space, resources, and guidance for small food businesses, many of which are minority- and women-owned.
Our team is made up of food entrepreneurs, immigrants, and community-minded leaders who believe deeply in paying it forward. Creating opportunity, fostering growth, and showing up for our community are core to who we are.
In 2021, we formalized our commitment to community impact by launching ongoing volunteering and support efforts that allow our team to give back in meaningful, hands-on ways across Harlem and New York City.
Giving back is part of our culture. The e.terra team regularly supports initiatives focused on food access, nutrition, and community wellness throughout New York City.
Our efforts have included:
Preparing, packaging, and delivering meals for seniors and health-compromised adults
Supporting soup kitchens and community meal programs
Participating in large-scale food rescue efforts to reduce food waste
Working with urban farms to help provide fresh, nutritious food to underserved communities
We are honored to collaborate with and support organizations such as:
City Harvest
God’s Love We Deliver
Encore Community Services
Project EATS
Union Settlement
We’re proud of the community we’ve built and the impact we continue to make inside our kitchens and far beyond them. Our commitment remains rooted in service, equity and strengthening the food community we are honored to be a part of.
March 2025
Encore Community Services
January Volunteering 2025
Team e.terra volunteers with West Side Campaign Against Hunger. Packaging food boxes for deliveries to the community.
Free Food Liberate Everything
(December)
Team e.terra Kitchen volunteering Refettorio Harlem for Free Food Liberate Everything Holiday Soirée Benefit at the Historic Emanuel AME Church in Harlem.
Unconditional Freedom
(October)
Volunteering for City Harvest
(September)
Free Food Harlem
(August)
Prepping meals and setting dinner service for community guests.
City Harvest "Food Rescue"
(June)
Post Fancy Food Show in NYC. Over 78,000 lbs of food was collected to be distributed to various charities.
West Side Campaign Against Hunger
(May)
Packaging Food
The Food Bank of NYC
(May)
e.terra Kitchen volunteered with the Food Bank of NYC.
Food Bank For New York City
(April)
Volunteering with Food Bank for New York City. Feeding 395 people in 2.5 hours!
God's Love We Deliver
(March)
Packaging grocery packages at God’s Love We Deliver. This organization provides medically tailored meals for people too sick to shop or cook for themeselves.
Encore Community Services
(Feb)
West Side Community Center
(January)
Packaging meals for the Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine. At the West Side Community Center.
Harlem Community Volunteering
(December)
December Holiday Markets at La Placita. e.terra Kitchen with Makers Pantry.
Encore Community Services
(December)
Helping Encore Community Services pack 450 meals in 4 hours!
Harlem Community Volunteering
(October)
e.terra volunteers at God’s Love We Deliver!
Here’s our team volunteering to help prep meal for people with special dietary needs and people living with serious illnesses.
Free Food Harlem at their new home; Emanuel AME Church(September)
The e.terra Team volunteered with Free Food Harlem and helped this amazing non-profit create meals as they transition into their new home!
We’re honored to have been a part of your journey!
God's Love We Deliver
(August)
e.terra volunteers at God’s Love We Deliver!
Here’s our team volunteering to help prep meal for people with special dietary needs and people living with serious illnesses.
Manhattan Borough President’s office (July)
e.terra volunteers at the Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine’s office. Helping to assemble bags for the community.
The Manhattan Borough President’s office is committed to creating a more equitable, resilient, affordable, and healthy city for all New Yorkers.
Free Food Harlem
(June)
The e.terra Team volunteered with Free Food Harlem and helped this amazing non-profit create meals for this holiday weekend’s serve! For a peak at our volunteering session:
God’s Love We Deliver (May)
Cooking and delivering medically tailored meals for people living with serious illness. All meals are free to clients and “full of love.”
Here the e.terra team helps with scooping pancake batter & blueberries into individual servings and clamping the trays.
Encore Community Services (May)
Founded in 1977, Encore provides seniors living on the West side of Manhattan with a range of services to help them live independent and dignified lives.
Here the e.terra team helps to sort vegetables and fruits; groceries to seniors.
Encore Community Services (March)
Founded in 1977, Encore provides seniors living on the West side of Manhattan with a range of services to help them live independent and dignified lives.
Here the e.terra team packages cold meal kits to go out to seniors.
All Saints Church (January)
e.terra team volunteers with All Saints Church on the Upper East Side; handing out free food as a part of their “Monday Night Hospitality” program. The church is “devoted to initiatives in our community that help build justice and equity for all people.”
Encore Community Services (December)
Founded in 1977, Encore provides seniors living on the West side of Manhattan with a range of services to help them live independent and dignified lives.
Here the e.terra team helps to package hundreds of hot meals.
God’s Love We Deliver (November)
Cooking and delivering medically tailored meals for people living with serious illness.. All meals are free to clients and “full of love”.
Here the e.terra team helps with packaging of the meals.
NYC Food Bank (October)
Food Bank for New York City provides food and hope to New Yorkers in need throughout the five boroughs.
Here Harry from e.terra helps with dropping off 30 boxes of produce to their UWS location.
City Harvest NYC (September)
City Harvest is the world’s first food rescue organization, dedicated to feeding NYC neighbors in need.
Following the Ace Endico food show to the trade at Yankee Stadium, the e.terra team helped to collect leftover food, a “Food Rescue”.
Project EATS (August)
A non-profit organization founded by Linda Goode Bryant. Project EATS is an installation of neighborhood-based farms growing food on vacant lots and rooftops across NYC.
Here the e.terra team is helping to harvest radishes, beets, and summer squash.
City Harvest NYC (June)
City Harvest is the world’s first food rescue organization, dedicated to feeding NYC neighbors in need.
Following the Fancy Food Show at the Javits Center, the e.terra team is a part of their “Food Rescue”, salvaging all the leftover food from the trade show. Thirty two pallets of food in 3 hours!
Project EATS (May)
A non-profit organization founded by Linda Goode Bryant. Project EATS is an installation of neighborhood-based farms growing food on vacant lots and rooftops across NYC.
Here the e.terra team is helping to pick herbs and prep garden spaces for planting.
Encore Community Services (March)
Founded in 1977, Encore provides seniors living on the West side of Manhattan with a range of services to help them live independent and dignified lives.
Here the e.terra team helps to deliver hot meals to seniors.
Union Settlement (January)
A community organization that strives to empower East Harlem residents. Founded in 1895, this organization helps 10,000 residents each year.
Here the e.terra team helps with packing of meals outbound to those in need of food.
