One of our newest partners, Educational Enrichment Systems Inc. kicked off their very first distribution in September and it was a huge success. EES is a non-profit child development agency that has provided superior early education programs to families throughout San Diego County since 1979. They decided to start a distribution to meet a need [...]
Feeding San Diego is excited to kick off the new school year by welcoming four new sites to our School Pantry program. After much collaboration, planning and training, the four new sites at Fallbrook and Laurel Elementary in Oceanside and Sunset and Willow Elementary in San Ysidro are ready to welcome parents and students to their [...]
In July, cooking classes wrapped up at Edison Elementary School, a pilot project between Target, Feeding San Diego and Leah’s Pantry. For the past year, Leah’s Pantry has been conducting bi-weekly cooking classes on campus at Edison Elementary immediately following the FSD School Pantry distribution. All attendees of the cooking classes also received cooking kits to encourage more [...]
Thanks to our collaboration with Hunger Free America and with the help of summer meal site nutrition education best practices, our all-volunteer nutrition team developed a one-week kids nutrition curriculum specifically designed to take place over the summer at each of our Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) sites. This “Nutrition Week,” with the [...]
For the past eight weeks, Feeding San Diego hosted three summer AmeriCorps VISTA members, Danielle, Justin and Lisa, who have been instrumental in reaching individuals for CalFresh assistance and daily support of the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). Through Danielle and Justin’s work with CalFresh outreach and application assistance every day out in the community, [...]
One of our fantastic partner agencies, St. Rose of Lima, has taken it upon themselves to respond to the growing need of their community by partnering with other organizations in the Chula Vista community, including another FSD partner agency, Turning the Hearts Center. Together, they joined efforts to offer a “Day of Hope” for homeless [...]
Feeding San Diego relies on contributions from national and local partnerships to source product. Providing nearly half of the food distributed by FSD, our Food Rescue program diverts quality food heading for the landfill to serve clients. FSD partners with more than 180 local grocery stores and retailers to rescue an average of nearly a [...]
The third annual North Eats food festival hosted by Baker & Olive on June 26 will benefit Feeding San Diego with $5 of every ticket going to our hunger-relief efforts. Just $5 can provide 20 meals through our efficient distribution model. Use promo code "ENDHUNGER" before June 12 to receive $20 off your ticket. North [...]
In order to build agency capacity and help our partners learn from one another, Feeding San Diego began hosting monthly live webinars for partner agencies this February. Past webinar topics, presented by FSD staff or partner agency representatives, include agency sustainability, Market Match and nutrition incentives, and volunteer best practices. Next month’s webinar is scheduled to [...]
The 2016 Food from the Bar competition challenges law organizations throughout San Diego to join together in the fight against hunger. Firms compete with one another to make the biggest impact through FSD’s hunger-relief efforts. Firms earn points by donating food, funds and volunteer hours and the team from each league with the highest points wins. And today, we have [...]
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