COVID-19 – Los Angeles Food Waste Community

SEE-LA volunteer loads farm box into car

SEE-LA Discusses Supporting Local Farmers and Nonprofits During COVID-19 With Farm Boxes

Stephen Gutwillig, executive director of Sustainable Economic Enterprises of Los Angeles (SEE-LA), talked with the working group in late May about the launch of the Farm Box program that ran for a month between mid-March and mid-April. It is a free, healthy, fresh fruit and vegetable giveaway service for 1,100 families experiencing COVID-19 related financial […]

Call to Action From Hunger Action-LA During COVID-19: No Cuts to SSI

The coronavirus pandemic has created a huge state budget deficit in California. In Governor Newsom’s May budget revise, he proposed cutting the State Supplemental Payment to SSI, which supports 1.3 million blind, senior and disabled Californians, as part of a set of “trigger cuts” that would be enacted if the state doesn’t get more pandemic […]

Food Pantry Fun During COVID-19 (Video)

Here’s a fun video of food pantry workers dancing while safely social distancing. Enjoy!

LA Sanitation Donates 2,500 Masks to the Food Waste Prevention and Rescue Working Group

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in April, we were able to source 2,500 masks generously donated by the Los Angeles Sanitation Bureau. We were able to distribute them to smaller emergency food nonprofits with the kind help of Food Cycle, Food Forward, Food Finders, and the West Side Regional Food Bank. While we’re […]

Food Finders Delivers During COVID-19; Donate Using Their App

The Food Rescue Program through Los Alamitos-based Food Finders is working diligently during the COVID-19 response. Recently, they started sending out 100 family food bags on a weekly basis, packed by their volunteers, to the Salvation Army Citadel. With the help of their partner agencies like the Salvation Army, they are able to provide food […]

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