Today, June 5th, is World Environment Day. Created in 1974 by the United Nations, the day seeks to raise public awareness of environmental issues. In celebration of World Environment Day, we are honored to share that Feeding San Diego was selected by the City of San Diego’s Environmental Services Department as a Recycler of the Year [...]

On Tuesday, May 21, five Feeding San Diego staff along with 27 community members boarded a bus and made the eight hour drive to Sacramento, California. Why? So they could participate in Hunger Action Day 2019 on Wednesday, May 22.    Each May, anti-hunger advocates from all over the state meet in Sacramento to [...]

Thank you to team Sam's Club for coming out to volunteer recently! They helped sort 3,100 lbs of food donations. They will be continuing to #FightHunger and #SparkChange through May 20 with the sixth annual nationwide “Fight Hunger. Spark Change.” (FHSC) campaign. In partnership with Feeding San Diego, Walmart and Sam’s Club invite San Diego shoppers to help fight hunger in [...]

Today Feeding San Diego announced the release of Map the Meal Gap 2019, a detailed analysis of food insecurity across the county. The report shows that one out of every eight San Diegans are struggling with hunger and the crisis is even larger among children. Across Feeding San Diego’s service area, one out of every [...]

School lunches have changed in recent years. From healthier options to offering a variety of choices, but one thing that hasn’t changed, the thousands of pounds of un-served school lunches that winds up in the trash. Two and a half years ago San Diego Unified School District partnered with Feeding San Diego, and launched, [...]

This holiday season, Steve Weatherford brought smiles to the faces of children, families, and seniors at Central Elementary when he donated more than $4,000 to Feeding San Diego to benefit students and neighbors in the community facing hunger. The generous gift from the Steve Weatherford Foundation will support our School Pantry program and help operate [...]

This year Feeding San Diego launched Teams for Good, an opportunity for corporate and community groups to gather together and make an impact this holiday season by volunteering their time and donating to Feeding San Diego’s seasonal meal distributions. The groups that participated in this program far exceeded our expectations and made it possible to [...]

I was brought up to be a contributor—to give back to my community. I graduated from Mesa College in May 2018 and am now a Career Peer Ambassador here at the career center, where I get to help students create or update their resumes, and help them find jobs that are meaningful and that pay [...]

Volunteer Spotlight: Isaac Quinones has volunteered more than 55 hours with feeding San Diego since August, 2018. He is an extremely hard worker with great dedication to the mission here at FSD. Not only does Isaac attend various volunteer shifts in one day, but he also succeeds in making every volunteer shift FUN!His positive attitude [...]