Ensuring our neighbors have reliable access to safe housing and healthy food.
About the organization: Feeding San Diego provides more than 35 million meals every year to children, families, seniors, college students, military families, veterans, people facing homelessness, and other underserved populations. They distribute meals in partnership with 370 local charities, schools, faith communities, meal sites, and food pantries throughout the region. About 70 percent of the food provided to the community is rescued from local and national food donors. By diverting nearly 28 million pounds of high-quality food from the landfill, Feeding San Diego protects people and the planet.
Nearly 50 percent of K-12 students in San Diego County rely on free or reduced-price meals. As such, the Feeding San Diego school pantry program offers a much-needed support system for low-income families. This program provides monthly deliveries of nutritious food to schools that can be distributed to entire families during school drop off or pick up.
Program Funded by Life Science Cares: The School Food Pantry Program. In 40 schools across San Diego County, LSC funding helps to provide reliable food access to food-insecure families.
About the organization: Serving Seniors serves low-income older adults aged 60 and above. They help poor and homeless seniors thrive using an innovative model of whole-person, wraparound support including meals, housing, health and social services, and lifelong learning.
Working at 15 sites across the county and in the homes of hundreds of homebound seniors, Serving Seniors provides 640,000 meals and coordinated services to 5,000 older adults each year, most of them living on less than $1,000 per month. Serving Seniors is the largest provider of meals to seniors in the county, and one of the only organizations in the nation providing such a broad base of services to vulnerable, at-risk older adults.
Program Funded by Life Science Cares: Transitional housing units and emergency needs funding, to help unhoused seniors become permanently housed.
About the organization: Hope through Housing is dedicated to elevating the well-being and self-sufficiency of low-income residents living within National CORE affordable apartment communities throughout Southern California and beyond. Believing that both people and place matter in achieving community-wide well-being, Hope through Housing concentrates direct services, partnerships, and other resources right in the neighborhoods that need them most.
At the individual level, their goal is to see all people thrive—whether that means helping children do well in school, families improve their financial situation, or seniors age with dignity in their own homes.
In turn, Hope helps to transform entire neighborhoods as individual success leads to community success, influencing communities’ quality of life and creating real change in neighborhoods plagued with poverty, crime, blight, and isolation.
Program Funded by Life Science Cares: Pathways to Economic Empowerment, provides financial education to residents of affordable housing units towards greater economic mobility.
About the organization: Mama’s Kitchen strives to provide nutritional support to San Diego residents at risk of malnutrition due to critical illnesses such as HIV, cancer, congestive heart failure, type 2 diabetes, and chronic kidney disease. Together with hundreds of volunteers, businesses, and community supporters, Mama’s Kitchen strives to help our clients stay healthy, preserve their dignity, and keep their families together by providing, medically tailored home-delivered meals and nutrition education – all at no cost.
Program Funded by Life Science Cares: Medically Tailored Meal Delivery Service for low-income individuals homebound due to illness.
About the organization: The mission of Community Resource Center is to help our neighbors create paths to healthy food, stable homes, and safe relationships. They do this through a variety of programs. They help nourish individuals who are vulnerable or food insecure by providing healthy food and nutrition education. They transform the lives of those experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness and help them obtain stable housing. They empower individuals and families to develop healthy relationships and provide safety and healing from domestic violence.
Community Resource Center is widely recognized as the primary provider of social services and domestic violence programs in coastal North County San Diego, serving more than 6,400 people each year.
Program funded by Life Science Cares: ProjectDash, to deliver healthy reliable meals to individuals homebound due to age or illness.
