Partner Portal

Welcome to our Feeding San Diego Agency Partner Portal. Here you will find important updates and resources that pertain to operating a food distribution and addressing hunger. If you do not find what you are looking for below, please reach out to your regional partnership coordinator or use the contact form at the bottom of this page.

Forms & Documents

Here are various forms, documents, and agreements to help your organization operate a successful distribution.

Feeding San Diego agency partner Bridge of Hope free food distribution on June 10, 2022.

Partner Resources

Partnership Basics Training (Video)
Partnership Basics Quiz
Best Gleaning Practices (Video)
Food Waste & Composting (PDF)
Succession Planning (PDF)
2023 Inter-Regional Town Hall Grants Presentation (PDF)
Gleaning Photo Instructions (PDF)
Best Grant Writing Practices (PDF)
Grant Writing Tips and Tricks (PDF)

Note: You can reach out to Feeding San Diego’s Grants Assistant Manager, Olivia Holabird, at oholabird@feedingsandiego.org to review any grant proposals you have. Please include all instructions, budgets, attachments, etc., and allow at least two weeks for a response. She also highly recommends you subscribe to the San Diego Nonprofit Update.

99 Ranch Market SB1383 Agreement
Aldi SB1383 Agreement
Apple Tree SB1383 Agreement
Baklava King, Inc. SB1383 Agreement
Barons Market SB1383 Agreement
Big Lots SB1383 Agreement
Bonsall Unified School District SB1383 Agreement
Bressi Ranch Plaza SB1383 Agreement
Bressi Regency Plaza SB1383 Agreement
Callie SB1383 Agreement
Canteen San Diego SB1383 Agreement
Claim Jumper SB1383 Agreement
Compass (Novartis) USA SB1383 Agreement
Costco SB1383 Agreement
Daniel’s Market SB1383 Agreement
El Super SB1383 Agreement
Elite Athlete Services (Aramark Food Services) SB1383 Agreement
Elite Buffet SB1383 Agreement
Encinitas Unified School District Farm Lab SB1383 Agreement
Eurest Dining (General Atomics) Cafe 7 SB1383 Agreement 
Eurest Dining (General Atomics) Cafe 92 SB1383 Agreement 
Eurest Dining (Qualcomm) SB1383 Agreement
Eurest Dining (SDGE) SB1383 Agreement
Eurest Dining (Viasat) SB1383 Agreement
Fairwinds Ivey Ranch SB1383 Agreement
Fiesta de Reyes SB1383 Agreement
Food 4 Less SB1383 Agreement
Four Seasons Carlsbad SB1383 Agreement
Frazier Farms SB1383 Agreement
Galpao Gaucho Eight SB1383 Agreement
Gelson’s SB1383 Agreement
Frito Lay SB1383 Agreement
Grocery Outlet (San Ysidro) SB1383 Agreement
JE Exports SB1383 Agreement
Jimbo’s Naturally SB1383 Agreement
Karl Strauss SB1383 Agreement
Ki’s Kitchen SB1383 Agreement
Manolo Farmers Market SB1383 Agreement
Marriott Coronado SB1383 Agreement
Marukai Market SB1383 Agreement
NatSweets SB1383 Agreement
On The Border SB1383 Agreement
Otay Farms SB1383 Agreement
Pacific Coast Commercial SB1383 Agreement
Palomar Commons SB1383 Agreement
Park Hyatt Aviara SB1383 Agreement
Pizza Port (Carlsbad) SB1383 Agreement
Prager Brothers’ Artisan Breads SB1383 Agreement

Prager Brothers SB1383 Agreement
Ralphs SB1383 Agreement
Sam’s Club SB1383 Agreement
Sanchez Food Business LLC SB1383 Agreement
Sandpiper Wood Fired Grill & Oysters SB1383 Agreement
Scripps Health SB1383 Agreement
Seafood City SB1383 Agreement
Sharp Healthcare (Sodexo) SB1383 Agreement
Smart and Final SB1383 Agreement
Sprouts Farmers Market SB1383 Agreement
St. Paul’s Senior Services SB1383 Agreement
Target SB1383 Agreement
The Fish Market SB1383 Agreement
The Forum Carlsbad SB1383 Agreement
The Henry SB1383 Agreement
Vallarta Supermarkets SB1383 Agreement
Walmart SB1383 Agreement
Winco SB1383 Agreement
Zion Market SB1383 Agreement

Cobranding at Your Distribution (PDF)
Feeding San Diego Partner Resources (password-protected page – Ask your partnership coordinator for the password.)

Mobile Marketplace: Pickup Fresh Produce in Your Region (video)
Mobile Marketplace Flyer

Meet Your Partnership Coordinators

From guiding you through your first food pick-up to training you on food safety — our team is here to help. Our partnership coordinators each focus on a specific region of San Diego County to provide you and your team with next-level support. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions.

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Alana Austin

North Inland

> Email Alana

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Samantha Myatt

North Coastal

> Email Samantha

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Angus Hsieh

Central

> Email Angus

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Ruth Vazquez

East

> Email Ruth

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Marilyn Villalba

South

> Email Marilyn

FAQs

An agency partner is an organization that distributes food to participants regularly (monthly, bi-monthly, weekly, or multiple days per week). The agency partner is responsible for providing the space, volunteers or staff, equipment, and distribution plan. Feeding San Diego will help provide support and food, but the agency is ultimately responsible for its operations and funding.

Interested organizations can complete an application and attach the following documents; an IRS letter verifying 501c3 status, Articles of Incorporation, and a Board of Directors list.

We require at least one agency representative to have a current food handler’s certificate and be present during all food distributions. We host monthly pieces of training for our partners.

We also require logs for pest control and cold storage temperatures but will get partners set up with that during onboarding. These are collected annually.

A monitoring visit will be conducted as part of onboarding and annually to continue the partnership. These visits help our team confirm food safety measures are in place and help us understand your organization’s unique distribution, strengths, and challenges so we can better support you.

There are three programs agencies can access food through.

  1. Food Rescue is a program that pairs agency partners directly with one of our 600 donors. Depending on the agency partners’ needs and capacity, this may be weekly pick-ups from a nearby grocery store or the opportunity to accept one-time donations for various donors.
    1. This program requires training, some equipment provided by FSD, your own staff/volunteer driver(s), and vehicle(s).
    2. Cold storage is required for a majority of donations, including weekly pick-ups. However, some one-time donations of only dry goods are occasionally available for agencies without cold storage.
  2. Order directly from our distribution center of produce and dry goods either by pick up or by delivery
    1. Delivery or pick-up requests will be reviewed based on location, households served, delivery/pick-up frequency, and partner distribution days.
    2. Agency partners will need staff/volunteers to glean produce before distribution.
  3. Our Mobile Marketplace program allows agency partners to access produce closer to their locations. A variety of produce is sent to four areas each week for agency partners to access for free. This program is meant for smaller agency partners or partners supplementing produce based on food rescue donations.

Agency partners can access food from up to all three programs. However, delivery or pick-up approval depends on our capacity.

You can order food through Agency Express for a fee. How much food you receive will depend on what type of partner you are and how much budget you have. Typically, there are dry goods, rescued items, and produce available. The amount of food provided is also based on the monthly household numbers you are serving.

Our team will do our best to find donors that fit your agency’s capacity and needs depending on nearby donors’ current schedules. If we are not currently working with a donor you would like to match with; we are open to relationships with new donors.

Feeding San Diego shares our agency partners seeking volunteers with our regular volunteer base through Golden. Please reach out to your coordinator if you would like to learn more. The application is above under the Volunteer Recruitment and Management tab. We also encourage you to post volunteer shifts on other platforms such as Volunteer Match and Hands-On San Diego.

Feeding San Diego Closure Calendar

Calendar with days Feeding San Diego is closed marked off

Interested in becoming an agency partner?

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