At Eva’s Village, midday meals are now served outside, in Paterson, NJ on April 30, 2020. They now serve 360 meals a day outside, rain or shine.

Vicki Beckerman, 58, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, pictured at home in West Orange, NJ on April 12, 2020. She has been counseling children and families for 31 years, but since the pandemic struck, she has been volunteering her time by calling elders New Jersey, Arizona, Pennsylvania to help ease their anxiety and loneliness. She plans to continue this for as long as it helps, and lives by this quote by Anne Frank, “I keep my ideals because in spite of everything people are still good at heart.”

A person giving blood at the Red Cross blood drive at the Meadowlands YMCA in East Rutherford, NJ on April 28, 2020.

Volunteers, staff, and even furloughed employees help pack food at the Meadowlands YMCA in East Rutherford, New Jersey on April 29, 2020. They have distributed over 40,000 meals since mid-March to a one-mile-long three-hour line of cars every week.

Shaun Ananko, 37, Director of Agriculture and education, and Lisa Alexander, Executive Director of Grow It Green Morristown pose at their urban farm in Morristown, New Jersey on May 14, 2020. In their 11th year, they have now transformed their operations from purely educational to providing food for the community during the pandemic. They plan to donate 7,000 pounds of produce to local soup kitchens and food pantries.

A woman waits in the one-mile-long, three-hour line for food at the Meadowlands YMCA, in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on April 21, 2020. They have distributed over 40,000 meals since mid-March to a one-mile-long three-hour line of cars every week.

Kevin Bascom, left, distiller, and Brad Ransom, head of production, at Nauti Spirits in Cape May NJ, on April 6, 2020. Nauti Spirits normally produces gin, vodka and rum, but since the pandemic they’ve teamed up with a local pharmacy to produce hand sanitizer to donate to first responders and local facilities, plus selling it to local NJ companies and individuals at a rate well below market costs.

Debra S. Fleischer, manager of the Community Assistance Pantry at the Community Foodbanks of New Jersey’s southern branch, in Egg Harbor, New Jersey on May 12, 2020. They distribute meals to 300 families a week, 5 days a week. In comparison, last April they served 86 emergency orders and this April, there were 1,033. “Through these times people often come through heartbreak and they leave with hope,” says Debra S. Fleischer

Nutley EMS volunteers attend to a 92-year-old man suffering from diabetes who fell at his home in Nutley, NJ on April 28.

Sabor Unido, a Portuguese and Brazilian restaurant, has been giving away over 100 meals a day to local folks who are in need, during the COVID-19 crisis, in the Ironbound section of Newark, New Jersey on April 3, 2020.

Jamel Dobbins, 31, preps and hands out free food at Hillside Elementary School in Montclair, New Jersey, on March 17, 2020.

 Jamel is from from Jacksonville, North Carolina, and moved to Montclair, NJ for love. He became homeless for 4 months in 2018 when his relationship ended. At that time, he was able to get back on his feet because of various local organizations so he became involved with helping out. He works with Toni's Kitchen in Montclair. His family has always been involved with volunteering and donating for food security as well as mental health. Jamel was in the Air Force for 9 years and was deployed to Qatar during Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He used to be a personal trainer, and is currently studying public health at Montclair State University as well as pursuing his yoga teacher certification.