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Feeding San Diego awards $25,000 to nine community partners serving seniors
Feeding San Diego awarded $25,000 in grant funds this month to nine community partners serving seniors in San Diego County. This is part of Feeding San Diego’s Feeding Seniors initiative, which provides healthy meals to nearly 5,000 food-insecure seniors through strategic partnerships every week. Focused on improving the impact [...]
Nixon donates 500 backpacks and volunteers to pack them with fresh produce for kids
Earlier this month, Nixon donated 500 backpacks to Feeding San Diego, and 18 Nixon employees volunteered to pack the backpacks with apples for the one in six children facing hunger in San Diego County. The volunteer team was so efficient that not only did they glean and pack 2,000 [...]
Application intake event for CalFresh Expansion to SSI, the largest anti-hunger legislation in recent California history
We're proud to share that Feeding San Diego, along with our partners, Serving Seniors, 2-1-1 San Diego, and the County of San Diego Health and Human Services, hosted an application intake event on July 23, 2019, to drive awareness among senior SSI recipients on the CalFresh expansion, the largest anti-hunger initiative in recent [...]
Why are many of America’s military families going hungry?
At Dewey Elementary in San Diego, where most kids have military parents, the line forms early at the food pantry for free produce, snacks and staples like bread. By Cynthia McFadden, Christine Romo and Kenzi Abou-Sabe SAN DIEGO — Dozens of people formed a line outside Dewey Elementary [...]
Feeding San Diego raises more than one million meals through Fuel for Summer Campaign
Feeding San Diego is proud to announce that its annual Fuel for Summer campaign has raised 1,220,156 meals since its kick-off on May 13, 2019, with another month and a half to go. In San Diego County, one in six children face hunger — over 120,000 children. Thousands of youth [...]
Feeding San Diego and AMC partner at Comic-Con ‘DeadQuarters’ to end hunger
Feeding San Diego and AMC partnered on a donation campaign to end hunger at this year’s Comic-Con, and received 1,082.5 pounds of food along with $3,465 in monetary donations from visitors. The network encouraged visitors to go to “DeadQuarters,” its official fan zone of “The Walking Dead” and “Fear [...]
