– Lucy Loughridge, Volunteer and Student at Francis Parker School Think about the last time you attended a sporting event, a theatre production, or a concert. Unless it was a drive-in event, it probably was before March 2020. For nearly a year, the entertainment and hospitality industry has been motionless, leaving thousands of workers unemployed [...]
For the past year and a half, Jeff Gordan and the Community Research Foundation (CRF) have been rescuing food and other essentials from retailers across San Diego County. With the help of Feeding San Diego, Jeff rescues items that would otherwise go to waste and gets them into the hands of those who need them most. Jeff Gordan first connected with Feeding San Diego when he came across information regarding volunteering opportunities and [...]
Since 2017, Lisa has volunteered more than 580 hours at Feeding San Diego. She has contributed as a front desk volunteer, food sorting volunteer, and community outreach ambassador. Lisa has also worked as an Administrative Assistant at Creekside Elementary in the Poway Unified School District for fourteen years. Around four years ago, when Lisa found herself with some spare time over [...]
Chalking the Block Two young San Diegans, sisters Charley (age ten) and London (age seven) started a fundraiser for Feeding San Diego six days ago and already raised over $800! In the spirit of giving, they're "chalking the block" to raise money for people facing hunger across San Diego County. When people make a [...]
On Veterans Day, we would like to take a moment to honor and salute our heroes. Veterans and active-duty military families make significant sacrifices — access to nutritious food shouldn’t be one of them. In partnership with local military organizations, Feeding San Diego serves and supports veterans and military families through our Feeding Heroes initiative. San Diego County [...]
-By Lucy Loughridge, Student at St. Francis Parker Carmelle Remillard has been a volunteer at Feeding San Diego for 13 years, investing an incredible 630+ hours of time since June of 2012! When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, she began to volunteer an average of three days a week, “There are a lot of people [...]
- By Richel Shea, Lafayette College, '22 In honor of Hunger Action Month, Feeding San Diego met with Ford Roosevelt to discuss the increasing need for food assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic and the concept of hunger as a basic human right. Roosevelt is the grandson of 32nd President Franklin D. Roosevelt and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt. He works at Project [...]
Kristen sheds light on the significance of Feeding San Diego’s food distribution in partnership with Armed Services YMCA for active-duty military families Meet Kristen, a stay-at-home mother of three children. Her husband has been serving the U.S. military for over 15 years. They are one of the hundreds of military families Feeding San Diego serves every month through a partnership with [...]
Every other Saturday morning, Julie Atherton braves the blistering Campo temperatures to march up and down Feeding San Diego’s mobile pantry drive-through distribution line-up to help her fellow community members get the food they need. For over ten years, Julie has been instrumental in supervising food distributions for families and seniors living in rural Campo. She is the Outreach Specialist at Mountain Health Community Center, a Feeding San [...]
When the pandemic hit in mid-March, Feeding San Diego partnered with a number of school districts and Cajon Valley Union School District (CVUSD) was one of them. Since then, CVUSD has distributed bagged produce and dry good items provided by Feeding San Diego at three school sites every Friday from 11:00 AM to 1:00 [...]
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