Do Your Part at the Hollywood Food Coalition’s Community Exchange
Hollywood Food Coalition’s Community Exchange is a free, concierge food service aimed at providing small to medium-sized social service nonprofits the food they need, when they want it, so they can focus on their missions.As a kitchen ourselves, they understand the struggle to find and acquire food in the right quantities and at the right time through the current food bank model. The Exchange is changing how all of that works. Their careful recipient intake and feedback process, paired with their innovative food rescue data-tracking system, allows them to create a concierge model that works better for all recipients. You can volunteer to keep the Community Exchange running smoothly! Visit: https://hofoco.org/community-exchange-volunteer/
Help with the Community Dinner Meal Prep at Hollywood Food Coalition
Hollywood Food Coalition needs your help with preparing meals! You will be Chopping vegetables, fruits, and other foods, Preparing casseroles & soups, Lifting and moving items, Wrapping and packaging food items, and Helping clean, including wiping down surfaces, washing pots & pans, and sweeping floors. Visit: https://hofoco.org/community-dinner-prep-volunteer/
Donate to the Immediate Items Needed by Hollywood Food Coalition
Hollywood Food Coalition helps to fulfill immediate practical needs of people experiencing homelessness and general poverty! People experiencing homelessness and general poverty often need basic items just to survive each day. These items are hard to keep for long periods of time and also difficult to keep clean making frequent replacement necessary. Visit: https://hofoco.org/community-wellness-immediate-needs/
Sponsor a Food Drive with Hollywood Food Coalition
Food Drives are always appreciated and Hollywood Food Coalition encourages companies and other entities (schools, congregations, neighborhood groups, etc.) to become Monthly Food Drive supporters and sponsors. Visit: https://hofoco.org/food-drives/
Help Serve Meals at the Community Dinner with Hollywood Food Coalition
Hollywood Food Coalition’s Community Dinner is their signature and longest-running program. They serve nightly to anyone in need of a hot, nutritious meal. Their consistency builds trust with their guests, which helps connect them with further service. Visit: https://hofoco.org/about-our-community-dinner/
Donate to Act’s of Compassion
Act's of Compassion is dedicated to their mission of providing meals to those who need it most in their community, along with other annual programs around the holidays. Please donate to help them in this mission at https://actsofcompassions.org/ towards the bottom of their homepage.
Partner With Hollywood Food Coalition’s Exchange
Hollywood Food Coalition is working hard to bring as many recipients into their program as they can, and they’ll continue to grow their partnerships as they increase their food donations. Hollywood Food Coalition started as a kitchen that cooked every meal with donated food. It’s hard to do that. Especially when donations come and go at random. And when they do arrive, the quantities and qualities are varied. If you ask them, there’s a better way. They’re driven to prove it.The Exchange goes to great lengths to learn about your organization, your programs, and the populations you serve. They’ll learn what your capacity constraints are and the types of food your clients love. They’ll do their best to accommodate all of it, collecting feedback as you work together. They think this is pretty exciting, and they hope you do too. Please fill out their initial inquiry form, and they’ll contact you with further information. Together, you’ll change the food rescue and redistribution game. Visit: https://hofoco.org/receive-food-and-essentials/
Provide meals & food for U.S. Vets (Inglewood)
Provide meals & food by sponsoring meals, preparing, delivering, and serving meals, assembling snack bags, delivering sack lunches, and delivering monthly birthday cakes! For more information call or your local U.S. Vets office.
Consider Donating to U.S. Vets (Inglewood)
U.S.VETS — Inglewood, the inaugural U.S.VETS site, opened in 1993 with only five clients. Today the location operates over 600 beds of transitional and permanent housing. Employment services are provided through a workforce program that helps over 100 veterans return to employment each year. Additionally, over 300 veteran family households are provided rapid re-housing and homeless prevention services. Please consider donating to their cause! Visit: https://usvets.org/donate
Support Foster Youth at United Friends of the Children
Create a Facebook fundraiser in support of United Friends, and donations from your friends and family will directly benefit their youth! Find out more here: https://www.unitedfriends.org/grassroots-fundraising/
Volunteer for Kitchen Shifts at United Station’s Family Center
Interested in food prep and meal service? These volunteer shifts for United Station Homeless Services are an integral part of maintaining an efficient and successful kitchen and meal program. Volunteers must be at least 13 years old to volunteer in the kitchen with a chaperone and 16 to volunteer without one. Email them at volunteer@unionstationhs.org to learn more and click here for more details: https://unionstationhs.org/help/volunteer/
Help Project Ropa by Making an In-Kind Donation
If you would like to help Project Ropa in their mission to provide clothing to the homeless, they accept new and gently used adult size clothing and shoes as well as new hygiene products, granola bars, water, blankets and more. If you are interested in making an in-kind donation, please complete the questionnaire on their website. For a list of clothes they are looking for and to sign up, click here: https://www.projectropa.org/donate/
Plant a Garden with Long Beach Community Table
Are you a master gardener or just love to dig in the dirt? Come help Long Beach Community Table reach their goal of building at least one new urban garden per month at various locations around Long Beach! You can also volunteer to help garden hosts do their weekly harvesting to supply their weekend recipients with fresh, organically grown local produce. To volunteer or host a garden, contact: LBCTGardens@gmail.com. Visit: https://www.longbeachcommunitytable.com/volunteer
Volunteer Behind the Scenes with Long Beach Community Table
Do you prefer volunteering behind the scenes to support nonprofit operations or community outreach? Please email Long Beach Community Table with your area of expertise, whether it is back office support such as filing, bookkeeping, organizing or cleaning, or communication-related activities, like social media, email campaigns, volunteer management, video production, or event tabling. Email your abilities to: LBCTCommunications@gmail.com. Visit: https://www.longbeachcommunitytable.com/volunteer
Donate to Support Long Beach Community Table
Long Beach Community Table (LBCT) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, cooperative (meaning that all volunteers and recipients share in the effort and the benefits), that nourish those who are struggling and provides resources that allow all to mutually sustain each other, families, and neighbors. In the spirit of community, many of their volunteers are also recipients, and vice versa…this is what makes them a true mutual aid organization and not a charity. They foster sustainable community to support the well-being, empowerment, and self-determination of food- and housing-insecure residents in the greater Long Beach area with dignity and compassion. To support their mission, please consider donating! Visit: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=UA9E7UMF8N6HW
Donate In-Kind Items to Long Beach Community Table
Long Beach Community Table is always looking for food donations. Besides food, their most-needed items include Hygiene Items and Garden Supplies. Please consider donating the items to support Long Beach Community Table. You can find more information on what items they need in their website and the drop off times. Dry goods, hygiene products, and gently used clothing donations are also accepted any time of day without an appointment at: 3166 Ostrom Ave., Long Beach, CA 90808. Visit: https://www.longbeachcommunitytable.com/donate
Give Hope to Youth with Lucky Duck Foundation
Youth homelessness is a crisis in San Diego. On any given night more than 1,000 young people are unsheltered. Help Lucky Duck Donation to provide housing and education to these youths! Donate Now. Visit: https://www.luckyduckfoundation.org/youthhomelessness/
Give Hope to Seniors with Lucky Duck Foundation
Homelessness among individuals 55 or older is tragically the largest and fastest growing segment of people living unsheltered in San Diego and nationwide. According to the latest point in time count, seniors over the age of 55 account for 29% of San Diego County’s unsheltered homeless population, with 46% falling into homelessness for the first time. Preventing unsheltered homelessness before it begins is critical for a myriad of reasons. Donate to Lucky Duck Foundation to help these seniors. Visit: https://www.luckyduckfoundation.org/seniorssafeathome/
Provide Sleeping Bag Coats to Lucky Duck Foundation
While they call on regional elected officials to add more immediately available beds, the need to provide protection and warmth from the elements is critical. As such, the Lucky Duck Foundation has committed to distributing several thousand more Empowerment Plan winter coats during the fall and winter of 2022. This is in addition to distributing more than 5,000 coats since 2020. The first 100 coats were distributed on World Homeless Day (10/10) in partnership with the Empowerment Plan, who distributed 100 coats across 10 different cities on 10/10. These weather-resistant coats are manufactured by homeless parents and transform into sleeping bags to provide reprieve and protection from the cold pavement. It is the least everyone can do while everyone encourages elected officials to add inclement weather shelter beds. Coats will be distributed through the food and water initiative, which has provided more than 1,500,000 meals to date and reaches approximately 1,000 people per day. Please consider donating in support of this effort. All donations are matched up to $1.5 million per year by LDF co-founders Pat & Stephanie Kilkenny. Visit: https://www.luckyduckfoundation.org/provide-sleeping-bag-coats/
Provide Food and Water for Lucky Duck Foundation
Thanks to generous support from local philanthropist Gwendolyn Sontheim and the Aqualia International Foundation, LTD, Lucky Duck partnered with the San Diego Sheriff’s Department, Regional Task Force on the Homeless, and numerous outreach teams to distribute food and water to people living unsheltered throughout San Diego City & County. The San Diego Sheriff’s Department provides the meals and water, and Lucky Duck Foundation staff and volunteers pack the meals and coordinate with local outreach workers to distribute them across the City & County. These efforts provide neighbors experiencing homelessness with life-saving sustenance to support their efforts to end their homelessness. The program reaches approximately 1,000 people daily. In less than two and a half years, the program has distributed more than 1,500,000 meals. With your help they can continue to expand this number to provide food and water and help move even more people move off the streets and into shelter, housing, and a healthier and brighter path. Consider donating to this program! Visit: https://www.luckyduckfoundation.org/provide-food-and-water/
Featured Projects
Relax and Make Art at Big Sunday’s Sun Days on Tuesdays
Big Sunday,
joshua@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
Come decorate Mosaic Suns with us! For the past few months, people enjoyed joining us to make beautiful, cheerful and unique mosaic suns to brighten up nonprofits around town. These cool projects are the brainchild of our old friend Cathy Weiss and will be led by Cathy and our own Big Sunday staff, Josh. We can use your help! You don’t need to be artistic – just sincere. Visit: https://bigsunday.org/get-involved/tuesdayartdays/
Make A Difference at Big Sunday’s AW@10 Event
Big Sunday,
jake@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
We’d love to have you join us for our Accessible Wednesday morning program, AW@10! Previously held biweekly as “2W@10,” these special events are held from 10:00am – 11:30am each Wednesday where we do fun activities to help local nonprofits. And what’s extra special about these Wednesday events? Our guests of honor are wonderful and fun volunteers with some developmental challenges who want to give back and help others, in groups and as individuals. The accessible activities we’ll do on Wednesdays are specifically designed with these guests in mind, so that everyone can participate and have fun volunteering – because we believe very strongly that absolutely everyone has something to give. People of ALL ability levels are invited to join us on Wednesdays! All we ask is that you show up ready to be part of a community of helpful people! Visit: https://bigsunday.org/get-involved/aw10/
Make A Difference at Big Sunday’s TM@10 Event
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
TM@10 (Thursday Morning @ 10) is not only one of our favorite programs, but it’s one of our most popular, too! We meet every Thursday morning, from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM. And we host hands-on projects to help local nonprofits. At TM@10 we’ve assembled birthday gifts for folks in shelters; written letters to soldiers stationed overseas; packed backpacks for ex-gang members starting college; made quilts for preemies; and about 1000 other things. Even better – and in classic Big Sunday fashion – it’s a great way for people to meet new people, work together, and enjoy some laughs while helping someone else. Visit: https://bigsunday.org/get-involved/tm10/
Stuff Thanksgiving Meal Kits with Big Sunday
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
Each year we collect and pack big bags full of Thanksgiving dinner for thousands of people! We need folks to donate food, as well as pack everythingup and distribute it. And yes, everyone is invited to join together for a community breakfast, too! A true festival of gratitude. We also need folks to lead food collections in their community! And this year’s event will be back at the amazing Baldwin Elementary School! Visit: https://bigsunday.org/get-involved/thanksgiving2023/