By Erin Franey On Friday, December 5th I participated in the Healthy Family Project’s monthly nutrition education and food bank distribution event at Elder Creek Elementary. The ongoing collaboration between organizations at Elder Creek highlights great work being done in Sacramento to meet the needs of the most food-insecure families. As parents and children arrived,
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By Erin Franey Thousands of veterans around the country are homeless, and San Francisco has heeded President Obama’s call to house our veterans by 2015. A groundbreaking project in our city opened its doors on December 1, 2014. 250 Kearny is not just a space for 130 formerly homeless veterans to live, it is a
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By Adrienne Markworth How do we solve the persistent problems of food insecurity in the Tenderloin and Mid-Market Regions? As explained in the last post, the SF Dept of Innovation (part of the Mayor’s Office) has teamed up with Mind Mixer, the HUB, Adaptive Path, Zen Desk (and others) to create ImproveSF, a website designed to
Our volunteer extraordinaire, Alejandra, was interviewed on the radio talking about Leah’s Pantry! The interview will broadcast on Saturday at 7am and 4pm, Sunday at 2pm and 10pm, and Monday at 9am. (It’s in Spanish.) Listen online. Or you can call this number and listen to it as well: 1-832-551-5087
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Leah’s Pantry is busy in San Diego next month! We have been invited by the Salvation Army Kroc Center in City Heights to host a single-agency Food Smarts Training Program for their staff. They will train staff members from the Family Resource Center, the Gym, the Church, and Education Programs to run workshops for kids,
