New law could increase donations of meats, dairy, and other products Current state law allows a 15% tax credit for fresh fruits and vegetables donated by qualified taxpayers to food banks. Assembly Bill 614 (Eggman) would expand this Farm to Food Bank Tax Credit beyond fresh produce, to make eligible the following products: fruits, [...]

Feeding San Diego has received a $150,000 grant from Starbucks to help end hunger in San Diego County. Over the next year, the funding will support the services Feeding San Diego offers to children and youth, families, and seniors at 66 direct service sites, including 40 school pantries, 16 rural mobile pantries, three direct [...]

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 and reach of services offered [...]

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 pounds of apples, but they [...]

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 California history, and to educate [...]

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 lose access to nutritious school [...]

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 the Walking Dead,” to donate [...]

As of June 1, 2019, 700,000 Californians are now eligible for CalFresh (nationally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) for the first time. For the last 45 years, individuals receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) lacked the opportunity to apply for CalFresh benefits, but a new state law has ended that prohibition. The majority [...]