Almost everyone who encounters a Feeding San Diego farmers market on college campuses has trouble believing that everything is free. As humans just trying to get by with our daily lives in the fast-moving, hustling 21st Century, we can be forgiven for sometimes being a little suspicious or cynical. After all, there’s an adage drummed [...]

Feeding San Diego & Mesa College Give a Primer on CalFresh Between the rising cost of tuition, paying for books, housing, transportation, utilities, phones, and more, affording food is often the first place students make budget cuts. It’s become cliché that students subsist on ramen, but it’s a topic that can’t be ignored or joked away [...]

In February, the Feeding San Diego CalFresh team held two same-day workshops with the County of San Diego at God’s Extended Hand, one of FSD's partners. CalFresh helps low income families purchase healthy groceries each month. FSD and the County of San Diego’s Health Coverage Access team have worked together since 2015 to provide same-day services at [...]

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 Catholic Charities Vista Food Resource [...]

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 Carlos to give back to [...]

For our first round of agency grants in early 2016, the Feeding San Diego Programs Team awarded grants to seven agencies, with a total of $5,000 awarded. Items requested by partner agencies included tires for distribution vehicles, refrigeration to increase agency capacity to store fresh and nutritious food, and materials to build dignified and attractive [...]

By Arielle Golden, Programs Manager The Community Resource Center (CRC) is a small but mighty Feeding San Diego partner. The center is tucked away between downtown Encinitas and the Pacific Ocean, providing diverse resources for the North County community including domestic violence services, emergency and transitional housing assistance, a food pantry, and classes. Every holiday [...]

In early September, Feeding San Diego started a donation program with expanding retailing giant, Smart & Final. Smart & Final has always been a great supporter of their communities through their foundation but has recently taken their philanthropy to the store level by donating excess product to Feeding San Diego. The donation program will capture product that [...]