Resources to Donate or Receive Food

Recognition of charitable food distribution in the San Fernando Valley very rarely mentions the kindness of family, friends, and anonymous neighbors who discover a need and quietly rectify the problem, either as a one-time gift or over a period of time until the crisis is resolved.

The long-term needs of those whose income has not yet caught up to food costs rising often requires the organized and effective means of a charitable organization or taxpayer funded agencies. Either way those resources can become a means to encourage the discouraged and a teachable path for youth.   

Charitable food resources (tap names for a link to their websites) in the SFV include:

• Cure Hunger - San Fernando Valley Corps (salvationarmy.org)
  • Donate to The Salvation Army San Fernando Valley Corps Symphony Site
• MEND Poverty
• Home - Rescue Mission Alliance Valley Food Bank

• “PARTY AT THE MARKET” - FILLING INTHE STOP GAP BETWEEN THE WEALTHY AND IMPOVERISHED (ourstoryis.com)
• NOLP Food Pantries & Nutrition - APLA Health (Aids/HIV specific)

• St. Vincent de Paul of Los Angeles (svdpla.org)
• San Fernando Region - Catholic Charities of LA (catholiccharitiesla.org)
  • Guadalupe Community Center - Canoga Park
  • Loaves & Fishes II - Van Nuys
• St. Didacus Catholic Church - Sylmar 
  • Food Distribution - The 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month
  • Registration starts at 8:00 a.m.  Food is distributed at 9:00 a.m.
  • St. Elizabeth - Van Nuys Get Help Service Center - St. Elisabeth Catholic Church - 
    
• St. Mel's - Woodland Hills
  
  • The Hot Lunch Bunch
    
• Shepherd Church - Porter Ranch
  
  • Homeless Lunches Team Registration | Shepherd Church
  • Homeless Outreach Team Registration | Shepherd Church

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