soup kitchen
noun
: an establishment dispensing minimum dietary essentials (such as soup and bread) to the needy
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Advertisement Currently, Flood and his team — in coordination with a network of more than 600 partner agencies, including soup kitchens, homeless shelters and senior programs — feed about 900,000 people every month.
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Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
Staff at the Shepherds of Good Hope soup kitchen reported being harassed and assaulted.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 17 June 2024
The service has to be something tangible — working in homeless shelters or soup kitchens, cleaning parks, volunteering at nursing homes and senior centers, tutoring students — not joining some group promoting social justice and spending all day protesting and tweeting.
—Bradley Tusk, New York Daily News, 24 May 2024
The executive director of a Torrington soup kitchen has been sentenced to five years of probation after pleading guilty to falsely reporting community service hours in exchange for cash and gift cards, officials said.
—Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2024
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Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
Staff at the Shepherds of Good Hope soup kitchen reported being harassed and assaulted.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 17 June 2024
The service has to be something tangible — working in homeless shelters or soup kitchens, cleaning parks, volunteering at nursing homes and senior centers, tutoring students — not joining some group promoting social justice and spending all day protesting and tweeting.
—Bradley Tusk, New York Daily News, 24 May 2024
The executive director of a Torrington soup kitchen has been sentenced to five years of probation after pleading guilty to falsely reporting community service hours in exchange for cash and gift cards, officials said.
—Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2024
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“Soup kitchen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soup%20kitchen. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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