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.
- 2025 Agency Handbook
- Agency Pre-Monitoring Form
- Change of Information Form
- Food Handlers Certification
- DEH Registration
- DEH Webpage
- Food Rescue Transportation Temp Logs
- Handwashing Signs
- In-House Pest Control and Food Safety Check: Weekly Log
- IRS Church Qualifier Form
- Pest Control Guide
- Redistribution Log
- San Diego 2-1-1 Registration
- Temperature Logs
- Food Rescue Permanent Opportunities Link
- Interest in Food Rescue Program
- Agency Advisory Council Information Sheet
Partner Resources
- Introduction to the Food Rescue Module Training (Module 1)
- Look Into Food Rescue Program
- Food Rescue Requirements (Module 2)
- Food Safety and Donation Pickup (Module 3)
- How to Use Food Rescue Equipment (Module 4 English Version)
- How to Use Food Rescue Equipment (Module 4 Spanish Version)
- Importance of Receipting and SB1383 (Module 5)
- How to Submit a Regular Pickup Receipt in MealConnect (Module 6)
- Real-Time: How to Accept and Receipt in MealConnect (Module 7 English)
- Real-Time: How to Accept and Receipt in MealConnect (Module 7 Spanish)
- Food Rescue Request Form and Coverage Request (Module 8)
- Food Rescue Quiz
- Food Rescue Badge Information
Feeding San Diego understands how tough it can be to find volunteers at times. Through the Partner Volunteer Management Program, Feeding San Diego will provide its community partners with licensing to the Golden Volunteer Management Software to support the recruitment and retention of volunteers. Golden is a great platform to recruit skills-based volunteers for opportunities like office volunteers, food rescue drivers, and any other skills needed to support or expand capacity at your agency! The application process does not take long and once you are approved, you will be able to post your volunteer shifts on our Golden server to hopefully find more volunteers! Please note, this does not guarantee volunteers but is a resource for more people to find your agency and assist.
Application for Partner Volunteer Management Program (PVMP) through Golden
Example Waiver and Release of Liability for Volunteers (PDF)
Trauma-Informed Organizational Toolkit – especially for Homeless Services
Pantry Meal Kit Recipe Ideas
Still Tasty Shelf Life Guide
211 Referral Services – English/Spanish
211 Digital Equity – English/Spanish
211 Families and Children – English/Spanish
211 Disaster Services – English/Spanish
211 Re-Entry Pathways – English/Spanish
211 Wallet Cards – English/Spanish
Recipe Ideas for Lesser-Known Produce
Leah’s Pantry Trainings
Project Dash with DoorDash for Home Deliveries
Nonprofit Management Essentials – The Allstate Foundation
The Center for Nonprofit Grantseeking Fundamentals (Note: this guide has a $10 fee to access)
The Center for Nonprofit Virtual Trainings
2025 San Diego Fundraising Conference (This professional development opportunity takes place on September 18 & 19 and brings national fundraising experts, thought leaders, and local colleagues together for a day of learning and camaraderie.)
No Kid Hungry Program English and Spanish
SUN Bucks (A new program to help families buy food for their school-aged children during the summer)
WIC Information
SD Hunger Coalition Resources English and Spanish
Lifestyle Medicine and Food as Medicine Essentials (A 5.5-hour accredited online CME/CE course that introduces you to the therapeutic use of lifestyle medicine.)
Blog Articles on Food-Related Themes
Newsletter, Webinars, and Services on Food Consulting
Food Justice Content on Food & Society by the Aspen Institute
The Food Dignity Movement Regarding Combating the Stigma Around Services
211 North County Only Resource Guide (This 211 resource is for North County only. It may be out of date as resources continuously change, so we highly recommend calling 211 before seeking any services listed to confirm.)
Teaching Kitchens Resource and Toolkit to Implement
Integrating Food Is Medicine with Health Care to Foster Dietary Health Among Veterans
Food Is Medicine Federal Resource Hub
Design Toolkit for Pantries
MealConnect Training: Real-Time (Video en Español)
MealConnect Login
MealConnect FAQ’s (PDF)
Real-Time MealConnect User Guide (PDF)
MealConnect Quick Reference Guide (PDF)
MealConnect Cheat Sheet for Receipts (PDF)
Food Rescue Resource Guide (PDF)
Pulling Detailed Donation Reports from MealConnect (YouTube video)
Pulling Detailed Donation Reports from MealConnect: Instructions (PDF)
Pulling Detailed Donation Reports from MealConnect: Example Report (PDF)
Food Rescue Request Form
Cobranding at Your Distribution (PDF)
Feeding San Diego Partner Resources (password-protected page – Ask your partnership coordinator for the password.)
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.
County of San Diego
- Neighborhood Reinvestment Program Grant
- Community Enhancement Program Grant
- Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program
City of San Diego
- Community Projects, Programs, and Services (CPPS) Funding Program
- Arts, Culture and Community Festivals (ACCF) City Council Allocations
- Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program
City of Encinitas
City of Carlsbad
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.
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.
- 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.
- This program requires training, some equipment provided by FSD, your own staff/volunteer driver(s), and vehicle(s).
- 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.
- Order directly from our distribution center of produce and dry goods either by pick up or by delivery
- Delivery or pick-up requests will be reviewed based on location, households served, delivery/pick-up frequency, and partner distribution days.
- Agency partners will need staff/volunteers to glean produce before distribution.
- 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.
The San Diego Hunger Colation has compiled this map of nutrition insecurity in San Diego. They define nutrition insecurity as someone who requires assistance in getting three nutritious meals per day; this includes those who may have to make difficult tradeoffs between food, medical care, housing, and other necessities.
Feeding San Diego Closure Calendar
Still have questions?
Please get in touch with our partnerships team by completing the form below.
