Blog: Feed Change
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Second Round of Agency Grants Further Increase Capacity
The second round of agency grants awarded $88,000 in funding to 19 partners. Grants were made possible by Walmart, Feeding San Diego and other partners. Grants were used to provide refrigeration, shelving, carts, bins, and other hard assets to increase perishable food storage and improve overall network capacity. The freezer that [...]
Head of Partner Agency Receives National Award
The head of one of our partner agencies, Church of St Luke in East County, received a huge national honor in December. Carlos Cuellar was selected as the 2016 Knights of Columbus VAVS Male Volunteer of the Year. VAVS is a program through the Veterans Administration that allows veterans like [...]
Holiday Break Distributions Provide 29,750 Meals
In the month of December, the Feeding Kids Team worked with eight school partners to open their doors during winter vacation to provide a distribution to families in their communities. While schools are typically closed during the latter half of December for winter break, these schools worked with Feeding San [...]
Month of a Million Meals Raises More than 2.8 Million Meals
Thanks to incredible support from our community, we are proud to announce that more than 2.8 meals were raised for San Diegans in need since we launched the Month of a Million Meals campaign with ABC 10 News, Azteca San Diego 15/KZSD and Live Well San Diego on November 19, 2016. With the help of generous [...]
Nutrition Nugget & Recipe: Turnips
Let’s “turn up” this January with this warm winter salad with turnips! Turnips may be beet’s less popular cousin but like many other root vegetables, it is a nutritional powerhouse. Warm Winter Turnip Salad Ingredients 1 pound turnips, scrubbed and chopped 2 tbsp. olive oil 1/2 medium onion, chopped 2 cups mushrooms [...]
Top Volunteers: January 2017
Volunteer of the Month Eugene Capitano has been a valued volunteer since January 2016. In his tenure with Feeding San Diego, he has always been open to learning new skills and taking on greater responsibilities. He has donated over 50 hours to the Food Sorting Program and in October became [...]
