Because Everyone Deserves A Nourishing Meal

Meals on Wheels meets an urgent community need by delivering over 750 professionally planned, well-balanced and nutritious meals each day to our homebound neighbors.

We are a volunteer based, not-for-profit agency. It takes more than 75 volunteers to get the meals out each day.

Our service helps preserve dignity and independence by delaying nursing home placements, as well as reducing the frequency of hospitalizations.

And helping to sustain good health.

Program Description

Founded May 20, 1959. Third program organized in the United States.
Purpose To organize, plan and administer the service of delivering well-balanced and nutritious meals to homebound participants.
Areas
Served 		Syracuse, most of Southern Onondaga County (including Tully, Nedrow, and Served Layfayette), Brewerton and the Onondaga Reservation.
Recipient
Eligibility 		Recipients are homebound and unable to cook, shop for, or plan nutritious meals, but are otherwise able to live independently.
Hours Monday through Friday, 8:00AM- 4:00PM
Program Not-for-profit, voluntary.
Volunteer
Positions 		Board of Directors, Day Chairpersons, Kitchen Preparers/Packagers, Drivers Servers, Mailing and Special Events. Approximately 350 weekly volunteers.

It is the agency philosophy that volunteer participation and diversity is an integral part of the Meals on Wheels program. The volunteer's day-to-day contact with the recipient contribution as much to the recipient's emotional health, as the balanced diet does for his/her nutritional well-being.
MealPlans One hot meal and one cold supper meal delivered around noon. Diet plans available: regular, diabetic, mechanical, lowfat/low cholesterol, renal. All meals are low in sodium.
Other
Services 		Informational and referral home visits made by social workers and registered dietitian.

The Meals on Wheels program helps defer institutionalization, improve physical health through meeting nutritional needs, improves recipients' moral, and helps effect earlier hospital releases.

Throughout the years, Meals on Wheels has served as a model and provided assistance and information to other programs.
Source
Of
Income 		Income received from recipients fees and contributions, SSI subsidies, food stamps, donations, private grants, as well as Title III C2 nutrition grant/SNAP grant (administered by OCOFA and NYS Office for the Aging).

Statistics
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Private Donations (33k)
Meals Delivered (17k)
Revenue Distribution (17k)

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