We acquire food through both donations and bulk purchases and provide this consistent supply of nutritious food to our member agencies during weekly or as-needed visits to our warehouse. We also provide limited direct food distribution through our mobile pantries and help develop programs for specific high-need populations.
Westside Food Bank distributes nearly 5 million pounds of food every year.
COVID-19 Emergency Relief
Westside Food Bank coordinated with the City of Santa Monica to open a weekly pop-up food pantry in a city park that provides more than 17,000 pounds of food for more than 500 households each week. We also have opened two pop-up pantries: one in Culver City and the other in the west LA area. We are also working with Meals on Wheels West to provide boxes of groceries that volunteers deliver to homebound seniors along with their prepared meals.
Children
We provide high-protein foods and fresh produce for backpack and hot meal programs serving children and families and free farmers’ market-style distributions in Culver City Unified School District.
Veterans
Veterans in need of nutritional support have access to bagged lunches at multiple VA sites and receive food from several veteran-centric WSFB member agencies including our own drive-through pop-up pantry in front of the Fisher House.
College students
We supply food to UCLA’s Food Closet for multiple Santa Monica College food assistance programs and at Mount Saint Mary’s University farmer’s market-style distributions.
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With every donated dollar, we are able to provide someone in need with enough food for four hearty meals.
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