certain businesses donate excess food to hunger relief organizations like Feeding San Diego , and continuing its Together Tour large-scale food distributions , which have provided food to over 287,000 San Diegans since the initiative started in February 2021 . To look to the future , the organization is celebrating its past .
“ I founded Feeding San Diego because I believe that access to nutritious food is a basic human right . Looking back on 15 years of service to the community , it is humbling to be a part of this organization that provides what we now know to be an essential service and touches so many lives in the process ,” Founder and Board Chair Gwendolyn Sontheim shares with GB Magazine .
Feeding San Diego supporters Gwendolyn Sontheim , Tommy Gomes , Julie Coker , Davin Waite , Troy Johnson , Kelly Zien , and Sam Zien pose with a cosplayer at the Month of a Million Meals telethon this past November .
Feeding San Diego CEO Dan Shea helps distribute plant-based patties from local company Jensen Meat at a food distribution at Feeding San Diego headquarters in Sorrento Valley .
None of this work would be possible without the stakeholders that make the mission possible : donors , volunteers , the board of directors , staff , food donors and community and agency partners . The time is now to get involved .
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Feeding San Diego volunteers gather for a group photo ahead of a large-scale food distribution at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre .
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