Rent Party presents live music events to help fight hunger in our community.
About Us
Rent Party began as a series of live music events to help fight hunger in our community. From 2009 until 2020, the shows feature original music by many of the best bands in the NJ/NY area. And a handful of times a year we present nationally known acts.
And, before you ask, "What's a Rent Party?", "A rent party is a social occasion where tenants hire a musician or band to play and pass the hat to raise money to pay their rent, originating in Harlem during the 1920s." We love the imagery that this evokes: Music & Community.
In addition to our own programs, Rent Party supported three local food pantries and community hunger-fighting initiatives.
Rent Party Pantry, Inc. is a 501(c)(3).
BackPack Pals
BackPack Pals provides a weekend's worth of nutritious food to more than 100 food-insecure kids in our community each week during the school year. Our volunteers deliver food each Friday to every school in our community (K-12).
Our program bridges the gap between in-school lunch on Friday and in-school breakfast on Monday morning. BackPack Pals started in 2012, and we have distributed almost 40,000 packs of food!
$300 will ensure that a food-insecure child in our community will leave school on Friday with a weekend's worth of nutritious food. Please consider making a donation today.
The Rent Party Garden flourishes in the full sun of the front lawn of the South Orange Elks Lodge on Prospect Street and is a wonderfully unique partnership with the Elks. The 32 raised bed garden has fed the community since 2012. Each season, the garden grows more than 2,000 pounds of fresh produce that is donated to local food pantries and other community initiatives, including SOMA Justice.
Community Grows Here.