Helen Thompson
Communications Officer
212.537.0522 (office)
646.270.8477 (mobile)
hthompson@nyc.mercycorps.org
To download a PDF fact sheet about the Action Center, please click here
Press Releases
April 21, 2008
Mercy Corps Begins Construction of New Global Headquarters
At a ceremony today celebrating the start of construction of its new global headquarters building, Mercy Corps unveiled plans for a museum-quality public space in Old Town Chinatown that CEO Neal Keny-Guyer said will give Portland a “window to the world.”
January 24, 2008
Mercy Corps Announces Innovative Public Space in New York City
New Center will inspire visitors to become activists against global hunger and poverty.
November 9, 2007
Mercy Corps’ World Hunger Action Center Receives $1 Million From Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
Mercy Corps has been selected to receive a $1 million grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to help support construction of a new facility in Battery Park City focused on the global struggle against hunger and poverty.
October 26, 2006
World Hunger Action Center To Be Built In Battery Park City
Partnership between Mercy Corps and Battery Park City Authority aims to transform visitors into advocates for ending world hunger and poverty.
In The News
Sue Kirchoff and Richard Wolf, USA Today, May 2, 2008
U.S. could add $770 million in food aid
President Bush's proposal to provide an additional $770 million in international food and development aid is winning praise from Congress and charities, but they say more needs to be done.
Stephen Beaven, The Oregonian, April 22nd, 2008
Mercy Corps announces plans for museum at new headquarters
Mercy Corps announced this morning the creation of an interactive museum on the ground floor of its Old Town-Chinatown headquarters that will highlight issues such as poverty, hunger and conflict resolution.
Amy Zimmer, Metro New York, April 18th, 2008
Hunger for answers at one-of-a-kind site
From Haiti to India to the Philippines, severe shortages of food staples such as rice have sparked riots, hoarding and worse. What are you gonna do, right? Well, Mercy Corps, a hunger-relief organization, hopes a Battery Park City space they broke ground on this week will provide inspiration for average New Yorkers to respond. That’s why their $5 million, 4,000-square-foot space is named the Action Center to End World Hunger. “We don’t want people coming away thinking these problems are insurmountable,” said George Devendorf, vice president of Global Engagement.
S.Jhoanna Robledo, New York Magazine, April 3, 2008
Leonardo DiCaprio Buys Ecofriendly Battery Park Apartment
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio buys a condominium in the same building that will house the Action Center To End World Hunger.
Florence Fabricant, New York Times, March 5, 2008
Dining Calendar: Fighting World Hunger
Next fall the Mercy Corps, a nonprofit organization, will open the Action Center to End World Hunger, an educational center, in Battery Park City. “Harvest, Sustenance and Survival,” a preview exhibit of photographs of women and food around the world, is on view through Tuesday in Chelsea Market, 75 Ninth Avenue at 16th Street, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.
J. Alex Tarquino, New York Times, July 18, 2007
3 Nonprofit Groups Get a Manhattan Deal: $1 a Year
Mercy Corps joins with two other nonprofits in receiving a landmark lease agreement that helps them occupy the 4,000-square-foot exhibition space in Battery Park City.
Stephanie Gaskell, NY Daily News, February 27, 2008
'Museum' of hunger feeds more than needy
Got a minute? How about an hour or even a day? Mercy Corps' new $5.4 million Action Center to End World Hunger, which will open in Battery Park City this fall, will help visitors learn what they can do to help feed needy people across the globe.
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