FEEDING SAN DIEGO
9477 Waples Street, San Diego, CA 92121 www.feedingsandiego.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: CONNECT EVERY PERSON FACING HUNGER WITH NUTRITIOUS MEALS BY MAXIMIZING FOOD RESCUE.

Feeding San Diego is on a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. Through direct service and community partnerships, Feeding San Diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families, and seniors in need.

Program ServicesFeeding San Diego serves people facing hunger through multiple initiatives and programs, each focusing on a distinct population, to support an overarching vision of a hunger-free and healthy San Diego.Feeding Families Initiative:Through the Feeding Families initiative, Feeding San Diego works to provide healthy meals to families across the county through partner agencies who operate their hunger-relief programs, as well as direct-to-client distributions in rural and urban areas.Partner Agencies: Feeding San Diego works closely with more than 150 partner agencies to provide food and resources to individuals and families across San Diego. According to research conducted by Feeding America, 26 percent of those served by our partner agencies are under the age of 18 and 10 percent are under the age of five. In San Diego, 10 percent of those served by our partners, or approximately 5,000 individuals each week, are over the age of 60.Partner agencies are held to a strict set of guidelines and governing procedures that ensure food is distributed safely in accordance with state and federal laws. Feeding San Diego works to build the capacity of our network in the areas of safe and effective distribution of nutritious foods, advocacy, and CalFresh outreach. This includes limited cash and in-kind grants to partner agencies to build their distributions and ability to address the needs of more people in a dignified and food-safe manner.Mobile Pantry Program: The Mobile Pantry program reaches predominantly rural areas, especially in the north and east county regions, which lack access to affordable groceries. The Mobile Pantry program delivers food to underserved neighborhoods that have a high incidence of poverty and lack consistent access to full-service grocery stores or other sources of fresh, healthy food. The food delivered by this unique resource helps a wide variety of individuals - seniors, those homebound and isolated by age or illness, and migrant farmworkers and their families, among many others.College Partnerships Program: According to a recent study at 70 community colleges, 56 percent of students experienced food insecurity and other economic hardships. Through the College Partnerships program, Feeding San Diego provides higher-education campuses with an assortment of fresh fruits and vegetables for free monthly farmers market distributions. The program brings food directly to campuses so students and their families can stretch their food dollars while avoiding stops at multiple locations to meet their food needs. Campus partners are also eligible to participate in our food rescue network, which matches partners with local stores to pick up and distribute nutritious food.Feeding Kids Initiative:Feeding San Diego serves children, youth and their families facing hunger through a variety of distributions at their schools, afterschool activities, and summer programs.School Pantry Program: Feeding San Diego addresses the problem of child hunger in our community by distributing fresh, healthy food through our School Pantry program. This program serves more than 6,240 households with children at 40 school sites across the county, providing fresh produce and staples in a dignified, farmers market-style experience that allows families to choose the best foods for their dietary needs and cultural preferences.BackPack Program: Feeding San Diegos BackPack program provides local students with easily transported food to take home for the weekend. This weekly program helps bridge the weekend gap between school meals, ensuring children are well-nourished and ready to learn on Monday. It also helps when circumstances like transitional housing or reliance on public transportation create barriers for parents and/or guardians to pick up food directly from a School Pantry.After School and Summer Meal Programs: The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) provide federally reimbursed meals and snacks to children after school and over the summer break at safe and convenient locations across the county.Regional School Break Distribution Program: The Regional School Break Distribution program provides fresh produce and healthy shelf-stable items to households with children at farmers market-style pantries hosted at four distribution partners during school breaks. These distributions reach children when school is out, often at the same schools that operate School Pantries during the school year.Feeding Heroes Initiative:Feeding San Diego provides free, nutritious meals to food-insecure military households through collaborations with military-focused community partners, as well as direct services provided by Feeding San Diego. We supply food at military-focused distribution sites throughout San Diego County. As part of our School Pantry program, we hold distributions at K-12 schools in areas with high concentrations of military families. Our Mobile Pantry program has sites that reach military families with distributions just outside of Camp Pendleton.Feeding Seniors Initiative:Ten percent of all individuals served by Feeding San Diego partner agencies are seniors. Our partner agency network provides more than 1.8 million meals to San Diego seniors through their services in the community. Four of our Mobile Pantry sites serve particularly large senior populations in rural areas, including Boulevard, Guatay, Jacumba, and Julian. Feeding San Diegos direct-service distributions for seniors provide 380 households with 6-12 pounds of produce and/or healthy shelf-stable items through monthly distributions at two senior living facilities and one senior resource center. We also provide produce that is delivered twice-monthly to senior households through a Meals on Wheels partnership.Outreach Programs:Beyond direct service and community partnerships, Feeding San Diego operates outreach programs to help vulnerable people facing hunger to access food assistance and other public benefits.CalFresh Outreach Program: Feeding San Diegos CalFresh team enrolls eligible clients, dispels myths about CalFresh assistance and helps eliminate the stigma surrounding the program. The outreach model is designed to move clients toward self-sufficiency and provide support throughout the complex application process. The CalFresh team conducts outreach at large-scale food distribution sites, health clinics, community colleges, and other locations.Healthcare Partnerships Program: With the growing understanding of the link between hunger and health, Feeding San Diego developed strategic partnerships with health-care providers to improve the health of the community. The latest community health needs assessment conducted jointly by hospitals throughout San Diego County identified food security and access to food as the number one social determinant of health for San Diegans.By screening patients for food insecurity and integrating food assistance and nutrition education into healthcare, Feeding San Diegos health-care partners increase food access to those in need and reduce the health implications of food insecurity. Partnerships with health-care organizations have resulted in on-site food pantries, food security screenings, nutrition education, and nutritious food for patients.

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