Blog: Feed Change
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A Hopeful New Year Thanks To You
Thanks to our generous donors, we raised the funds to provide over 10.3 million meals this past holiday giving season! On top of that, in November and December, our amazing volunteers logged 8,255 hours, and food donors allowed us to rescue 4,004,400 pounds of high-quality surplus food [...]
Longtime Mobile Pantry in Beloved San Diego Mountain Town Continues to Make a Big Difference
“It is a bit cold up here in the morning,” Diane Hake, the site lead of the Julian mobile pantry, said in her email. “You may want to bring a jacket and gloves. When the wind comes up, it is chilling.” Diane was preparing our team for the chilly [...]
San Diego-Based Jensen Meat Company Donates 500,000 Pounds of its New Plant-Based Patties to Help Fight Hunger
A recent food donation from San Diego-based Jensen Meat Company has Feeding San Diego going plant-based! Last week, Jensen Meat Company gave Feeding San Diego the news of its largest food donation to date. The company committed to donating 500,000 pounds of its new plant-based patties to help those facing hunger [...]
Staff Spotlight: Meet a CalFresh Specialist Who Has Experienced Hunger Firsthand
Before she was a CalFresh specialist at Feeding San Diego, Lourdes Gonzalez waited in line for food. Although it was over a decade ago, she remembers her firsthand experience with hunger like it was yesterday. Her husband lost his job, and she had just given birth to their third child. [...]
How a School Pantry Supports a Family Experiencing Homelessness
In March of this year, Feeding San Diego established a new school pantry site at the Monarch School, which serves students facing homelessness in grades K-12. This new distribution allows families to come to campus to pick up food, interact with the teachers, and access other resources. We visited [...]
This Holiday Season, Give Hope and Share Joy with Feeding San Diego
Feeding San Diego invites the local community to get involved and give back to those facing hunger this holiday season. This week marks the start of our Give Hope, Share Joy fundraising campaign. Our mission is to raise critical funds for vital hunger relief initiatives and programs. Funds raised [...]
