Resource Database
Search below for opportunities to get help, give help, or donate to people in your community.
Los Angeles Unified
Who can get help: Students of the LA Unified school system
What: Los Angeles Unified, in partnership with the Red Cross, will continue to provide nutritious meals to all students who need them during the temporary closure of schools. The 64 Grab & Go Food Centers are staffed weekdays from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. Each child can take home two nutritious meals.
Hollywood Food Coalition
Who can get help: Anyone welcome to join on any night with a no questions asked hot meal.
Who can give help: Meal Engagement Program operates with two daily volunteer shifts including a daytime Meal Prep shift to prepare our daily meal and an evening Meal Service shift to serve the meal to clients. "Pickups Artists" procure the valuable food donations that go provide a meal each day and operate on both a standard & as-needed basis
What: The Hollywood Food Coalition provides a warm, nutritious meal along with access to basic daily needs, such as clothing, backpacks, sleeping bags, and hygiene items, as well as assistance with housing placement and referrals. Food served every night from 6.30pm till 8pm.
Phone: (323) 462-2032
Physical Location: 5939 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90028
SF/Marin Foodbank Locator
Who can get help: Disabled, Elderly, Urgent Situation with no food.
Location: 900 Pennsylvania Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94107
Phone Number: 415-282-1900
St. Francis Center – Homelessness
Who can get help: People are unhoused or homeless in Los Angeles are eligible to receive home.
Who can give help: Anyone is able to volunteer.
What: St. Francis Center offers a range of services to support people who are experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles, including meals, hygiene services, health care, and resource connection.
Emergency Child and Youth Care
Who can get help: Requires official invitation but if you meet the following criteria, you can be invited:
1. Work for the San Francisco Department of Health or One of its Community Health Clinics
2. Work for one of the San Francisco-based Hospitals
3. Have been activated as a Disaster Service Worker
What: Childcare for eligible Healthcare and Disaster Service workers in Greater San Francisco Bay Area.
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation (CRLAF)
Who can get help: Resources intended for immigrates.
What: Foundation provides information on testing, unemployment, information about legal rights, housing, access to food and healthcare, and more.
Opportunity Fund
Who can get help: Small businesses and entrepreneurs
What: The Opportunity Fund is a microfinance institution that typically lends to small businesses and entrepreneurs. Small businesses can apply to this organization to acquire loans to help them through the COVID-19 outbreak. Loans are typically geared toward entrepreneurs.
Employment Development Department State of California
Who: Financial resources from the State of California for both employees and employers affected by the COVID-19 virus, businesses (employers) can receive financial help as well as employees.
What: The resource is to provide employees with unemployment benefits, allowing the to keep their current job, and avoid financial hardships. The employers benefit because they can minimize or eliminate the need for layoffs, keep employees trained for when conditions improve and avoid costs of recruiting, hiring, and training new employees. Individuals must see the website below for additional information and forms to mail in to the state to receive help.
Phone Numbers: Employers call Work Sharing Program at 916-464-3343 or EDD Special Claims at 916-464-3300
Dining At A Distance
Who can help: People living in San Francisco area
What: Use this aggregator to find what restaurants in the San Francisco area are open for take-out, curbside pick-up, or delivery during the lockdown of San Francisco’s restaurants and bars during COVID-19.
Restaurants Care
Who can get help: Restaurant workers in California
What: Restaurants Care is currently evaluating grant requests from California restaurant workers who have been impacted by the coronavirus in the following ways in order of priority to serve the most vulnerable first.
The Safety Net Fund
Who can get help: Artists in the Bay Area
What: This fund will offer grants to artists, with no expectation of repayment, to help provide direct monetary support through this crisis. This money is offered with the intent of helping artists survive and continue to create despite the maelstrom. The maximum grant is $500 per person per month, and the number of grants per month is dependent upon the funds raised.
GetCalFresh.org
Who can get help: Anyone applying to CalFresh (SNAP California food stamps)
What: CalFresh is California’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), often known as food stamps. GetCalFresh.org helps you apply & book an appointment online easily. They are an authorized California application assistance tool.