Hot meals. Real dignity. Every week, five boroughs.
Hope Bus is a mobile relief bus that visits Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island every week — serving fresh hot meals to neighbors facing food insecurity. No ID. No paperwork. No judgment.
Or start your own fundraiser for Hope Bus.
Each route has its own monthly sustainer goal — meet the bus where it stops.
Manhattan
East Harlem, near the Metro-North overpass
Brooklyn
Brownsville, beside the community center
Queens
Jamaica, near the transit hub
The Bronx
Hunts Point, off the produce-market corridor
Staten Island
Port Richmond, across from the mosque
From one route to 50,000+ meals.
- 2022
First route
One bus, one borough, fifty meals a week. A single Manhattan stop run by a small crew of UMMA Foundation volunteers.
- 2023
Five boroughs
The route map expanded to all five boroughs. Volunteer headcount grew past 30. Weekly meals crossed 1,000.
- 2024
10,000 meals
Crossed 10,000 cumulative meals served. Hit 50+ active volunteers. Added Friday Staten Island route in partnership with the mosque.
- 2025
50,000+ meals
Over 50,000 meals served since launch. 100+ active volunteers across all five routes. Hope Bus becomes a citywide weekly fixture.
Show up
Three hours, one shift, real impact. We train on the job. The hardest part is just committing to a Tuesday.
VolunteerKeep us moving
Pick a borough and become a monthly sustainer for that bus. Or start your own fundraiser — Ramadan, birthday, mosque drive.
Notes from the route, every few weeks.
We crossed 50,000 meals.
A milestone we passed quietly on a Tuesday in Brooklyn. Three years from one route to five.
Friday Staten Island, growing fast.
The Port Richmond stop has doubled in attendance since spring. Here is what is driving it.
How a high schooler led a Bronx route.
Coordinators don't have to be adults — our newest Bronx lead is 17, and her route is one of the smoothest.