Whether mission-aligned allies or long term customers, we are proud to partner with organizations striving for positive impact. We have built many great, long-lasting relationships with our customers and Boston community organizations along the way. Meet some of our closest allies:
Central Boston Elder Services
Central Boston Elder Services provides services to elders and disabled individuals in the Greater Boston area to remain self-sufficient and in their homes by providing both short and long-term care.
Our Partnership
Together, Central Boston Elder Services and City Fresh became the 1st partnership in the nation to offer daily, hot, home-cooked Latin delivered meals to homebound elders as part of home care services. The collaboration began in 1994, not long after City Fresh first opened as a small takeout restaurant in Dudley Square. Central Boston Elder Services called looking for a way to provide seniors with meals they grew up eating. From this, the work began and quickly diversified to feed more community members with Southern, Italian, Haitian, Russian, Vietnamese, and Portuguese style meals. This work together was the beginning of a real, ethnic-choice meal program for seniors who were unable to cook for themselves.
The YMCA of Greater Boston
The Y provides care and guidance to the community through jobs, childcare, afterschool and summer programs of all ages. The YMCA of Greater Boston is working to make sure that no child goes hungry.
Our Partnership
The YMCA relies on a vital partnership with City Fresh to end food insecurity. City Fresh makes and delivers meals to the YMCA year round providing healthy meals during the school year and during summer months when kids need continued access to nutritious food. The YMCA sponsors more than 66 sites in all Boston communities. City Fresh services each site providing high-quality, balanced meals to support their program.
The positive impact of this partnership sustains our community during the most challenging times. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the YMCA of Greater Boston and City Fresh worked together coordinating over 20,000 emergency meals per day to students and their families.
Shah Family Foundation
The Shah Family Foundation supports innovative and transformative work in education, healthcare, and the community.
Our Partnership
City Fresh manages the transportation and logistics components servicing nearly 45 food service sites for the Shah Family Foundation as part of the My Way Cafe program implemented by the Boston Public School System.
Boston Nutrition Consortium
Central Boston Elder Services, Ethos and Boston Senior Home Care Agencies are Aging Services Access Point organizations act as a the Boston Meal Consortium, managing the nutritional needs for Boston Home Bound Adults. Ethos is responsible for managing the day to day home delivered and congregate meal programs.
Our Partnership
Together, we work to provide excellent service to individuals in our community that rely on us to access consistent, appealing, nutrient-rich foods that meet their dietary needs. And to make sure their clients are safe and alert with every meal delivery.
Fresh Truck
Fresh Truck is on a mission to radically impact community health by getting food to people that need it the most.
Our Partnership
Fresh Truck and City Fresh not only share building and office space. We have created and maintained systems together that feed families living in urban food deserts.
Roxbury Preparatory Charter School
Roxbury Prep has been providing Boston students with quality education since 1999.
Our Partnership
In 2012, Roxbury Prep began expanding to multi-campus sites across Dorchester, Roxbury and Hyde Park. Along the way, City Fresh has helped the charter school build out 4 lunch programs and grow their food program capabilities from 450 meals per day at a single location to 2,000 meals per day at 4 separate campuses.
Elder Services of Cape Cod & The Islands
ESCCI employs over 140 trained staff and have over 1,500 caring people who volunteer their time to help. We have five offices throughout the service area. Each year, they deliver over 200,000 meals to elders in each town of the Cape and Islands. In addition, serving over 40,000 meals at their 16 Senior Dining Centers. They provide in-home services to over 2,300 frail seniors, investigate over 700 reports of elder abuse, answer over 9,000 phone calls to their Information and Referral Department…and much more!
OUR PARTNERSHIP
City Fresh Foods provides meals to ESCCI sites and Dining Centers as well as their Home Delivery programs. We provide a variety of meals to meet the different dietary needs of the elder community on the Cape such as Modified Carbohydrates, Cultural and Vegetarian.
Local suppliers we love to work with
Urban Farming Institute
Urban Farming Institute (UFI) is our sister organization, founded by our co-founder Glynn Lloyd. UFI converts abandoned lots in inner-city Boston into urban farms. These farms provide City Fresh, area restaurants and markets with fresh produce while creating jobs and revitalizing neighborhoods. The non-profit also offers training programs for urban farmers and operates farmers markets in Boston areas of need.
CommonWealth Kitchen
CommonWealth Kitchen is a fully-equipped, shared, commercial kitchen and commissary that focuses on supporting local, minority entrepreneurs. Their facility in Dorchester, MA is a hub for more than 50 community-based, business incubators including food trucks, caterers and wholesalers. Glynn Lloyd, City Fresh co-founder, was a founding board member who helped to develop the concept. City Fresh purchases food from Commonwealth Kitchen’s businesses whenever possible.
One Mighty Mill
One Mighty Mill believes that bringing back local food systems will help our communities be healthy and thrive. So, they built a mill in Lynn, MA to produce bagels and tortillas with fresh, local stone-ground flour.
Montilios Bakery
Montilios Baking Company of Boston is a family operated bakery and cake shop. Their European recipes for French and Italian cakes and pastries were an instant success when introduced to Quincy 60 years ago.
Katsiroubas Bros
Katsiroubas is a local, family-owned wholesaler of fruit and produce for over 100 years. They source their produce locally from growers and farmers in New England.
Ferullo’s Seafood
Ferullo’s seafood is a Boston based company that has been providing premium fresh and frozen seafood products to the greater Boston area and beyond for 50 years.
Cero Composting
CERO is a commercial composting company based out of Dorchester, MA. They provide City Fresh with food waste pickup and diversion service and transport compostables to local farms where they are returned to the soil and used to support the local agricultural economy.
Save that Stuff
Save That Stuff is a Cambridge based regional waste, recycling, and resource management company. Local and independently owned, they are vertically-integrated to collect commercial cardboard, paper, single-stream, food waste, electronics, trash and a range of other materials.
In March 2020, we activated our hunger prevention strategies to address the increased food insecurity among those hardest hit by pandemic - Low income children, families and seniors, Central to those strategies is City Fresh Foods - our partner of choice. We knew City Fresh, a local, minority-owned business, could prepare and deliver. This year, we have partnered and served over 3 million meals to children, families and seniors in greater Boston.
- James Morton, President and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Boston
