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Agency Spotlight: San Diego Rescue Mission
Since 1955, the San Diego Rescue Mission has been providing meals, shelter, clothing, education, and job-skills training for men, women, and single parents with children experiencing homelessness. A Powerful Partnership The Rescue Mission has been a loyal partner with Feeding San Diego for 13 years. They have grown exponentially over [...]
What You Need to Know About CalFresh Benefits This CalFresh Awareness Month
According to the California Department of Social Services, nearly 400,000 people in San Diego County receive CalFresh benefits. CalFresh is California’s name for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Each of these 400,000 individuals relies on the Calfresh benefits program to put nutritious food on the table. Formerly, CalFresh [...]
Top 5 Myths About Food Insecurity
There are a lot of myths and misunderstandings when it comes to food insecurity. The first key misunderstanding is that food insecurity is different from hunger. Hunger is a physical feeling when you haven’t had enough to eat. In contrast, food insecurity is an economic condition. Someone who is food [...]
3 Benefits to Volunteering as a Family
It’s a Friday evening at Feeding San Diego’s Sorrento Valley headquarters. Volunteers busily sort and pack food to go out to the community. In their midst is the Korn Family. Parents Usa and Tommy work the conveyer belt alongside 15-year-old Iris and 13-year-old Lucas. They’re working together on a kitting [...]
Agency Spotlight: Ramona Food and Clothes Closet
For the month of April, Feeding San Diego’s partnership team is spotlighting North Inlands’ Ramona Food and Clothes Closet (RFCC). Their mission is “to serve as a humanitarian organization providing emergency food, clothing, and other resources to aid individuals and low-income families in Ramona, Santa Ysabel, Julian, Ranchita, Borrego Springs, [...]
Connecting Local Farmers to Food Waste to Help Feed Animals
When you can’t feed people, feed animals. That’s what the Environmental Protection Agency’s Food Recovery Hierarchy tells us. And that’s what we do at Feeding San Diego. Food waste is an unavoidable aspect of operating a hunger-relief non-profit. It doesn’t have to be negative. When food reaches a certain point, [...]
