Hospice volunteer Ganga Stone delivers a meal to Richard, a man living with AIDS. He is too ill to prepare the packaged food she has brought him.

God's Love We Deliver is co-founded by Ganga Stone and Jane Best. Restaurant Claire begins donating prepared meals that Ganga and volunteers deliver--many by bicycle--to people living with AIDS in Manhattan. Other restaurants join in. Ganga and volunteers deliver an average of 50 meals per week.

God's Love We Deliver moves into the kitchen of West Park Presbyterian Church at Amsterdam & 86th Street and begins delivering 50 meals per day. Gay Men's Chorus donates a walk-in freezer. Our first van, "Little Blue", is donated by then Borough president David Dinkins.

God's Love begins feeding the children of our clients.

Our second van, "Big Blue", was donated with the help of Mayor Koch.

Honoring the growing number of dedicated volunteers, God's Love We Deliver hosts its first Volunteer Appreciation Party at West Park Presbyterian Church.

Bloomingdales offers to cook the Thanksgiving turkeys for clients due to lack of kitchen space at God's Love We Deliver and Bid of Love Art Auction at Sotheby's raises $600,000 for God's Love We Deliver.

Meals are being delivered to an average of 250 clients per day.

Chuck "The Baker" Piekarski joins the staff and creates the recipe for Chuck's Famous Brownies.

God's Love We Deliver moves to a larger rented kitchen space at the American Youth Hostel at Amsterdam and 103rd Street.

Mayor Dinkins begins the mayoral tradition of delivering Thanksgiving meals.

God's Love We Deliver receives first funding from Ryan White CARE Act.

God's Love We Deliver establishes its Nutrition Department to help people living with HIV/AIDS and their caregivers receive information about the importance of nutrition on compromised immune systems.

Friends Seminary in Manhattan begins the tradition of schoolchildren hand-decorating shopping bags in which God's Love We Deliver's holiday meals are delivered.

God's Love We Deliver starts delivering two meals a day (lunch and dinner).

God's Love We Deliver successfully bids on vacant building located at the corner of Spring Street and Sixth Avenue. Building is purchased from the city of New York. Capital Campaign to renovate and move into new building is launched.

David Geffen provides God's Love We Deliver with a gift of $1.5 million to renovate the vacant building located at Spring Street and Sixth Avenue.

Nutrition Department publishes Living with HIV: A Nutrition Guide with Special Emphasis for People in Recovery. Thirteen additional guides are published over the next eight years.

God's Love We Deliver initiates yearly fundraising events with the First Annual Race to Deliver.

Kathy Spahn becomes Executive Director in May 1994.

God's Love We Deliver delivers its one millionth meal.

After Board members Joan Rivers and Blaine Trump participate in Groundbreaking Ceremony, God's Love We Deliver moves into its new home on World AIDS DAY, December 1.

Ceramic wall tiles are sold as a fundraiser and are installed in the new SoHo kitchen.

God's Love We Deliver delivers its two millionth meal.

God's Love We Deliver celebrates ten years as one of the most popular volunteer sites chosen by college students for Alternate Spring Break.

R&B singer Mary J. Blige presents a check to God's Love We Deliver for $50,000 on behalf of the MAC AIDS Fund.

God's Love We Deliver delivers, on average, to over 1,000 clients per day.

Nancy Mahon joins God's Love We Deliver as Executive Director in April 2000.

God's Love We Deliver launches the first annual Midsummer Night Drinks. The party was hosted by Alan Rogers in Southampton. The second annual Midsummer Night Drinks was hosted by Rogers in Southampton, as well.

God's Love We Deliver expands its mission to serve clients living with serious illnesses other than HIV/AIDS.

God's Love We Deliver delivers its five millionth meal.

God's Love We Deliver begins delivery of frozen meals.

God's Love We Deliver prepares and delivers over 3,000 meals for search and rescue workers in the days following September 11.

Swatch "Wristory" auction raises $720,000 to help cover post-9/11 fundraising gaps.

God's Love We Deliver client base reaches an average of 1,200 clients a day, a 23% increase from the year before.

God's Love We Deliver moves its kitchen to Long Island City while it renovates its SoHo kitchen. The renovation improves capacity by 66% and lays the infrastructure for future growth.

God's Love We Deliver reaches milestone of over 1,200 active volunteers each month.

God's Love We Deliver initiates program for breast cancer clients and pilots caregiver meals program.

God's Love We Deliver delivers its eight millionth meal.

God's Love We Deliver celebrates its 20th Anniversary.

With funding from 20th Anniversary Lead Corporate Partner, the MAC AIDS Fund, God's Love We Deliver provides meals and nutritional counseling to two AIDS service organizations in Newark, New Jersey.

Karen Pearl becomes God's Love We Deliver's fourth President & CEO.

God's Love We Deliver delivers its 9 millionth meal.

In the wake of a Valentine's Day snowstorm, God's Love We Deliver raises over $34,000 in one afternoon to fund two emergency Blizzard Boxes filled with non-perishable food for each client.

At the 2nd Annual Golden Heart Awards dinner, God's Love We Deliver honored Harry Slatkin, 7th On Sale and long-time volunteer Roz Gilbert.

God's Love We Deliver prepares and delivers over 800,000 meals this year to 3635 clients, a 20% increase from the previous year.

God's Love We Deliver commemorates the delivery of its 10 millionth meal with an event that included agency founder Ganga Stone, Blaine Trump, Joan Rivers, Estée Lauder Group President John Demsey, Anna Wintour and many other notable guests.

To meet the changing needs of our clients, God's Love We Deliver moves forward on its plan to deliver more chilled and frozen meals. This is made possible by generous grants from Feeding America and the Judith C. White Foundation.

God's Love is a winner of the prestigious New York Times Company Nonprofit Excellence Award.

God's Love rolls out an enhanced children's menu with kid-friendly breakfast, snack and dinner.

God's Love kicks off its 25 year anniversary by ringing the NASDAQ Closing Bell on Thursday, April 7, 2011.

God's Love reaches an agency record and delivers over one million meals in one year, for a grand total of 1,000,732 meals.

Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn made a special meal delivery to mark our 25th anniversary.

God's Love We Deliver launches $25 million Expansion Campaign. As our numbers continue to reach a new watermark each year, we find ourselves at a critical crossroad. Our need for an expanded building is urgent. We launched our expansion campaign for the urgent needs of the next 25 years.

At our Sixth Annual Golden Heart Awards, Michael Kors, the world-renowned, award-winning designer announced his $5 million gift to our Expansion Campaign. With this donation, our $25 million campaign, launched at the previous year's Awards, reached its $20 million mark, ensuring that we could move forward with our expansion project.

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy's destruction, God's Love delivered 8,000 meals to people displaced by Sandy and 2,300 emergency meal kits called "Sandy Bags" to our clients. We also cooked 200 meals that our friends at Douglas Elliman brought to a group of people they "adopted" in the Far Rockaways.

God's Love moves to a new 20,000-square-foot temporary home at 630 Flushing Ave, in Williamsburg, a former Pfizer Inc. plant owned by Acumen Capital Partners. The move comes as we begin work on a $25 million renovation of our headquarters on Sixth Avenue in SoHo.

God's Love started the quest about four years ago because the group realized it would need additional space to keep up with the growing demand for its services. The group brings about 23,000 meals to 2,500 people every week, which is up more than 60% in five years.

God's Love We Deliver commemorates the delivery of its 15 millionth meal with an event that included Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, New York City Council Members Corey Johnson  and Robert Cornegy, Sylvia Vogelman, a 22-year volunteer with over 2800 hours of service, Linda Fairstein, a wonderful board member, Michael Sennott, former Board chair for 10 years and current chair of our Expansion Campaign, and the incomparable Joan Rivers.

On June 9, 2015, Michael Kors, Anna Wintour and Melissa Rivers joined Mayor Bill de Blasio and other notable New Yorkers as well as God's Love staff, donors, and volunteers to celebrate the dedication of The Michael Kors Building. 

After 22 months in our temporary Brooklyn location, we completed our move to our new home in The Michael Kors Building in SoHo. Our brand new, state-of-the-art, 9,600 sq. foot kitchen on the second floor has wonderful natural light, and includes four industrial-size refrigerators, three freezers, five blast freezers, five 80-gallon soup kettles, and a waste digester that converts up to 1,000 lbs. of organic food waste into disposable water. Every day, more and more sick and hungry New Yorkers reach out to God's Love looking for help. Our move to The Michael Kors Building allows us to continue to respond to the urgent needs of our clients for years to come.

God's Love We Deliver turned 30 years old on May 1, 2015.

We began with the simple principle that no one should ever have to face the dual crises of illness and hunger. We brought meals to home-bound people living with HIV/AIDS. At the start of our 30th year, we celebrated having grown, expanded and reached some amazing milestones:

Over 8,000 annual volunteers help us each year • We cook and deliver over 1.3 million meals each year • This winter, we cooked and delivered our 16 millionth meal • We now serve clients with over 200 unique diagnoses

So much has changed in our 30 years, but our core values have not. Together, we are dedicated to cooking and delivering the individually-tailored meals and nutrition counseling our clients require at a time in their lives when they need it most. We do this - free of charge - with dignity, respect and compassion.

Read all about our 30th Anniversary celebration here.

In 2016, we had many enhancements in our program. We launched a new packaging system, known as the "Oliver" system, so that all of our entrees are now heat sealed in an air tight container, locking in moisture and freshness. Clients are able to see the meal through a clear film seal, making it easier to decide what to eat without having to take off the lid. We added a "soft diet" for clients who do not need a minced or pureed meal, but for whom chewing and swallowing our regular meals is too difficult. Developing more choices like this helps us continue to meet the needs of our growing senior population. We also expanded our reach, delivering to new clients in Westchester and Nassau counties.

God's Love launched our 5th signature event, Love Rocks NYC! Performers included Joe Walsh, Mavis Staples, Jackson Browne, Warren Haynes, Billy Gibbons, Michael McDonald, Dr. John, Gary Clark Jr., Patty Smyth, Bruce Willis, John McEnroe, Bill Murray, Derek Trucks, Keb Mo, Aaron Neville, Lisa Fischer, Marc Cohn, Anthony Hamilton, CeCe Winans, Susan Tedeschi, William Bell, Amy Helm, Blind Boys of Alabama, Jackie Greene, Sam Moore, Catherine Russell, Joan Osborne, Tash Neal & Marcus King.