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: $75,000 to the School Pantry Program. Held in partnership with about 40 schools throughout San Diego County, Feeding San Diego’s School Pantry Program makes it easy for food-insecure families to receive food.
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: $95,000 to provide critical emergency needs for homeless senior citizens who are seeking more stable living and permanent housing.
About the organization: +BOX is a food security program that delivers reliable access to healthy food to food insecure students and their families. +BOX works alongside schools to distribute boxes of fresh, healthy, nutrient rich foods on a weekly basis. +BOX is designed to increase the capacity of public and community support systems and maximize impact by meeting children and their families where they are, which is often at their schools. Each +BOX includes enough healthy food for at least ten meals. +BOX focuses only on healthy and nutrient rich foods, eliminating the high sodium and carbohydrate content that often finds its way into the diets of those in need.
Program Funded by Life Science Cares: $40,000 towards expanding +BOX food distribution services to provide more food insecure families with healthy meals.