Two Food Bank Participants, Mike Bartell and Gloria Hernandez, were recently featured on KQED’s Forum program. They were asked to come into the studio the day before Thanksgiving 2018 and talk about their struggles with hunger and how organizations like the Food Bank are able to help them survive and thrive.
Click on THIS LINK and take a listen to host John Sepulveda as he asks poignant questions and gets more information about the Food Bank’s mission from Community Engagement Director Katy McKnight.
As Bay Area food banks, we work every day to fight hunger in our communities, collectively distributing over 172 million pounds of food each year, the equivalent of 143 million meals. We are alarmed by the Department of Homeland Security’s proposed changes to “public charge” regulations, which would increase hunger and poverty by punishing legal immigrants for using programs to nourish those in need and keep families healthy.
San Francisco Chronicle Reporter Tara Duggan recently did an in-depth series of stories that were all published in the paper the week before Thanksgiving, 2018. Several of them include information provided by the San Francisco Food Bank.
Every year, Marin Magazine publishes a special segment where nonprofits who are doing good things in the community are highlighted. This year, the Food Bank was recognized for all the work we’re doing to make sure Marinites with food insecurity issues are helped.
Back in May the band Metallica and it’s nonprofit foundation, All Within My Hands, descended on the Food Bank for a Day of Service. This past weekend, Foundation leaders and the band hosted their annual fundraising gala.
Check out the video below, produced with soundbites from Food Bankers Janine Hurty and Robert Alvarez.
ABC 7 and Disney showed off their generosity at the Food Bank recently. ABC7 news anchor Dion Lim paid a visit to our San Francisco warehouse on November 3rd to deliver a check for $15,000 to our Executive Director Paul Ash. It’s part of Disney’s annual season of giving – with these particular funds earmarked for use in securing more fresh produce for neighbors in need.
Activists battling hunger in Marin held a strategy session Monday in San Rafael, just two days after the Trump administration announced a new immigration policy likely to discourage many Latinos from seeking all types of governmental assistance, including food aid.
About 150 people from the private and government sectors turned out for the community forum on hunger hosted by the First 5 Marin Children and Families Commission at the Embassy Suites Hotel.
In 2018 the Food Bank was invited to participate and benefit from the first ever 9-1-1 Day of Service in San Francisco. It consisted of thousands of volunteers streaming into pier 35 to help bag and box meals for needy families. Dignitaries like then House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, and San Francisco Mayor London Breed stopped by and pitched in themselves.
If there was ever a time to realize that hunger can be found in any city, in any neighborhood, perhaps it is now. The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank recently opened a food pantry in the tony town of Tiburon – known more, perhaps, for multi-million dollar homes and breathtaking views of San Francisco Bay.
The pantry at the Hilarita Apartments, is serving more than 3 dozen families and was just upgraded to a public pantry, meaning anybody from the surrounding neighborhood can now access fresh, healthy, FREE groceries every Tuesday afternoon.
Marin Independent Journal Reporter Adrian Rodriguez stopped by the pantry recently and wrote about his experience…
Fresh produce, meat, bread and grains were set up in a farmers market-style food pantry in Tiburon, as volunteers greeted folks who picked up their groceries for the week.
“This is really helpful,” said 25-year-old Toby Taylor, who lives in the Hilarita Apartments complex where the SF-Marin Food Bank food pantry is in operation. “You wouldn’t think that this would be here in Tiburon, but it goes to show that there are pockets everywhere where people need a little help.”
The pantry is the first in Tiburon for the SF-Marin Food Bank. Although residents of the apartment complex have been benefiting from the pantry for the past few months, it opened to the public last week.
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