{"id":283517,"date":"2026-07-01T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/283517\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:58:09","slug":"more-than-700-bronx-families-receive-free-groceries-at-community-event-backed-by-goodr-nba-total-health-bronx-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/283517\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 700 Bronx families receive free groceries at community event backed by Goodr, NBA Total Health \u2013 Bronx Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over 700 Bronx families received a week\u2019s worth of free groceries at The Boys Club of New York<\/a>, courtesy of Goodr and NBA Total Health on June 22.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Offerings included fruits, vegetables, seafood, meats, milk, eggs, bread, cereal and various juices. Many families brought their own carts, which were retrieved and organized by staff to ensure the quickest possible flow of families.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The event required free advanced registration, and Spanish-speaking staff were available to help attendees check in. Beyond groceries, the event also included health and wellness programming, skin cancer screenings from Evernorth Health Services, resources from No Kid Hungry to help families determine eligibility for summer meal programs, a pop-a-shot basketball experience, and free small portions of hot food and smoothies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One attendee, Jalisa, said \u201cI love this sense of community that they brought. I love the fun aspects that they have in regards to the opportunity to attend the draft, and the smoothie and like the little food taster that they did, that\u2019s a really nice added touch, especially because it tags on to, like, getting back to the community.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

She added that she finds the event particularly useful because of rising grocery costs.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Annie Horn, Associate Vice President of Social Impact & Inclusion and Sustainability at the National Basketball Association, said \u201cWe are experts in basketball, we\u2019re not experts in the local community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe help bring eyeballs and awareness to the great works that Boys Club of New York are doing, the great work that Evernorth Health Services is doing, and Goodr, but we really rely on those partnerships in the local community for these kinds of events. We couldn\u2019t do it without them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"The community event helped residents determine eligibility for summer meal programs, hosted a pop-a-shot basketball experience and provided free small portions of hot food and smoothies. Photo by Maurice Burbridge<\/p>\n

Horn mentioned the importance of reminding NBA draft prospects (Kingston Flemings and Mikel Brown Jr.) who attended the event the need to support their local communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first thing that they\u2019re doing before they are drafted is being here in the community to understand that giving back is core to our DNA at the NBA.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The event also included a giveaway for free tickets to the NBA draft \u2013 attendees only had to receive two of six stamps indicating that they visited multiple stations set up throughout the interior and exterior of The Boys\u2019 Club of New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lilah Dima, Evernorth Health Services NBA Health Coach, primarily helps people who work with the NBA on their wellness, but was excited for the event as a new opportunity to provide services to everyday people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cHealth is first. Without health, we have nothing else. Health is wealth,\u201d a local resident told the Bronx Times. Photo by Maurice Burbridge<\/p>\n

Dima, who led the check-ins for skin cancer screenings, advises Bronxites to \u201cGet the free screenings when they\u2019re offering, because it\u2019s a proactive way to make sure that you\u2019re as healthy as you can be.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Desiree Barrett volunteered for the event to ensure the community has healthier food, and is now inspired to push for a similar event at her church.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI enjoy seeing people that don\u2019t have, get,\u201d said Barrett, who assisted in helping families \u2018shop\u2019 for groceries.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

One attendee, Jacqueline Gorham, who lives right next to the event, said \u201cThank you for the groceries, well appreciated,\u201d and expressed gratitude for the spread of health services in the local community.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHealth is first. Without health, we have nothing else. Health is wealth,\u201d Gorham said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 700 Bronx families received a week\u2019s worth of free groceries at The Boys Club of New York,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[108698,128,36911,108699,108700,21,108701,9,24,108702,63,108703,129,131,130,108704],"class_list":["post-283517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-annie-horn","tag-bronx","tag-free-groceries","tag-goodr","tag-lilah-dima","tag-nba","tag-nba-total-health","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-no-kid-hungry","tag-nyc","tag-the-boys-club-of-new-york","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-where-to-get-free-food-in-the-bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}