ECAP Held Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast at The Reformed Church

By Patty George, Community Liaison, Supervisor’s Office, Town of Eastchester
Feb. 1, 2017: The Eastchester Community Action Partnership (ECAP) recently held its annual Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfast at The Reformed Church of Bronxville.
The breakfast is a major fundraiser and also gives ECAP the chance to honor its community supporters.
This year’s honoree was the Eastchester 5K Committee for its large donation, which enabled ECAP to finally purchase a much-needed passenger van. ECAP area director Don Brown commented, “We are so thankful to the Eastchester 5K for this generous donation. This new van will enable ECAP to deliver food pantry bags to older residents who do not drive and are unable to walk with the heavy grocery bags. It will also be used to pick up donations and could be used in various other ways as well.”
The Rotary Club of Eastchester has agreed to help pay the insurance costs for the van. The club also donates many of the turkeys for ECAP’s Thanksgiving food drive.
ECAP serves only residents of Bronxville, Tuckahoe, and Eastchester, and all services are free. It runs an after-school program, a bi-weekly food pantry, and an emergency food pantry and offers gently used clothing, toys, and household items. ECAP also offers a tutoring service using Concordia College and local high school students and a referral service to hundreds of agencies and community-based partnerships, and it distributed over 200 Thanksgiving baskets to residents last year.
Pictured here: Members of the ECAP Advisory Board, the Eastchester 5K Committee, and the Rotary Club of Eastchester at a recent ECAP meeting.
Photo courtesy Patty George, Community Liaison, Supervisor’s Office, Town of Eastchester








