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 [...]
Our Feeding Kids Program Team attended the Out-of-School Time Nutrition Summit in Upland, California on January 24. The summit was hosted by the California Summer Meal Coalition to provide networking and learning opportunities as well as discuss ideas on how to provide kids and families with food and resources when kids who are out of school, missing much [...]
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 [...]
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 Diego, their administration, teachers and [...]
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 [...]
Feeding San Diego is excited to announce the launch of our newest Mobile Pantry site in Oceanside, a twice-monthly pop-up food distribution in partnership with North County Health Services and the City of Oceanside. Located in an area of Oceanside that serves military families around Camp Pendleton, families employed in agricultural work and surrounding neighborhoods, the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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