San Diego is a beautiful place to live, but in 2024, it's challenging to keep up with costs here. In fact, San Diego has been ranked one of the most expensive cities to live in. Increasingly, families have to make impossible choices between paying for housing, childcare, utilities, gas, and groceries. While costs like housing [...]
It’s just after noon on a Tuesday at Jewish Family Service’s campus in Kearny Mesa. Molly Smith, the non-profit’s nutrition operations manager, is sorting through protein boxes, pastries, and sandwiches with the distinctive Starbucks logo. Along with a handful of volunteers, Molly is preparing the day’s donation from the Starbucks FoodShare program. All these Starbucks [...]
October is California Farmer & Farmworker Month. Feeding San Diego simply could not distribute the amount of produce it does without vital partnerships with California farmers. Specifically, the relationships built by the California Association of Food Banks’ (CAFB) Farm to Family program. Grassroots Solutions to Food Rescue The program originated at the San Francisco Marin [...]
It’s a beautiful, sunshine-filled afternoon when Brian pulls his green pick-up truck up to the back entrance of Albertson’s in Escondido. A brightly colored magnet on the driver’s door announces his mission: MealConnect™ Food Rescue. Brian is a MealConnect volunteer driver. These volunteers answer the call when our food donors use the MealConnect app to [...]
Taking climate action is more important than ever. By supporting Feeding San Diego, you are protecting people and the planet. That’s because 70% of the food we distribute is rescued, meaning it is perfectly good, edible surplus food that would have otherwise ended up in a landfill. Thanks to our innovative business model, that food [...]
This St. Patrick’s Day, we’re talking about luck. More importantly, we’re talking about sharing your luck. Our friends at the Lucky Duck Foundation recently invested an additional $1 million in a job placement and training initiative for San Diegans experiencing homelessness. These funds will extend current employment and training programs, as well as explore new [...]
We often use the phrases “food rescue” and “feed people, not landfills” – but what does that look like? Feeding San Diego currently rescues over one million pounds of food every month from grocery stores alone. As part of our food rescue efforts, we work with over 600 local and national food donors to divert [...]
Nearly 70% of all food the organization distributed during the pandemic has been rescued SAN DIEGO (April 1, 2021) — This Earth Month, Feeding San Diego is announcing the launch of Feed People, Not Landfills, a campaign dedicated to educating San Diegans about the importance of food rescue for both people and the planet. Food rescue, or food recovery, is the process of diverting surplus food that would otherwise go to waste. Feeding [...]
In 2019, an enormous 35% of all food in the United States went unsold or uneaten.* Most all of it became food waste, meaning it went straight to landfill, incineration, or down the drain, or was simply left in the fields to rot—with a greenhouse gas footprint equivalent to 4% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Much [...]
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