Child actor asks you to ‘C the Difference’

Cory Nichols, 14, has raised over $13,000 and delivered 5,000 pounds of food through his not-for-profit organization

By Suzanne Kurtz Sloan For The Times of Israel

WASHINGTON (JTA) — After seeing the documentary “Hard Times: Lost on Long Island,” Cory Nichols enlisted his rabbi to find a way to use his upcoming bar mitzvah project to make a difference for struggling families in his Oceanside, N.Y., community.
Nichols contacted a local food pantry housed inside a neighboring church to see what it needed most.

He set a goal of raising $1,200 to stock the pantry’s shelves with $100 a month in food staples like peanut butter and jelly, tuna fish, pancake mix and cereal.

“I couldn’t believe that 150 families in my community use the food pantry,” said Nichols, now 14 and a ninth-grader at Oceanside High School on Long Island, as well as an actor who has appeared in several films. “There are probably kids at my lunch table eating food from the pantry. It made me want to do all that I could do to help.”

After a successful fundraising campaign in its first year, Nichols soon started the nonprofit “C the Difference: Cory Cares,” and in a little over two years has raised over $13,000 and delivered 5,000 pounds of food.

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