Resource Database
Search below for opportunities to get help, give help, or donate to people in your community.
Target Hunger
Who can get help: Target hunger serves vulnerable community members including homebound seniors, families whose children are now home from school, those who have lost their jobs or whose wages are reduced, and those who do not have resources.
What: Target Hunger serves food-insecure people and distributes more than four (4) million pounds of food annually. This distribution of nutritious food is accomplished through six food pantries, educational food fairs, an extensive senior home delivery program, collaboration with 10 senior day sites, the Willie H. & Gladys R. Goffney Community Garden and participation in the USDA Commodities Program.
Phone: 832-767-1677
Email: info@targethunger.org
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
Encore Community Services
Who can get help: Seniors in New York who live in West Manhattan and are homebound are eligible.
Who can give help: Anyone is eligible to volunteer.
What: Encore Community Services delivers hot and frozen meals to seniors in Manhattan who are unable to leave their homes.
For seniors wanting home delivered meals, call 212-581-2910, and press 3.
For people interested in volunteering, email volunteer@encorecommunityservices.org or call 212 581 2910 ext. 1108.
Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services - Food Deliveries
Who can give help: Volunteers who have a car and are able to lift 15 pounds.
What: Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services needs volunteers next week (Week of March 30th) to pick up and deliver packs of frozen meals to our clients, to make sure they have enough food to get them through the crisis. Need is for 16-18 volunteers per day, most likely on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Volunteers will meet at an open space (possibly a football field in Everett), load the meals from our caterer into volunteer’s cars, and then each volunteer will be given a route to deliver the meals in Somerville and/or Cambridge. Time of meeting likely between 9 and 10:30 am.
Volunteers need to submit a CORI form, and should reach out out to Colleen Morrissey:
Phone Number: 617-628-2601 ext. 3152
Email: Colleen.Morrissey@eldercare.org
Mutual Aid Solidarity Network
Who can get help: Anyone, in particular people who are sick, disabled, quarantined without pay, elderly, undocumented, queer, Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color -- including those displaced from Seattle to the nearby areas.
Who can give help: Anyone
What: An all volunteer group coordinating food and supply drop offs to people’s front doors.
Contact: covid19mutualaidsea@gmail.com
City Meals
Who can get help: People 60+, unable to prepare nutritious meals or have no one to do so for you, able to live safely at home if services are provided to you, and physically or mentally incapacitated and in need of some assistance
Who can help: Anyone
What: Hand delivering meals to New Yorkers.
Contact: 212-687-1234 or info@citymeals.org