Our founding meal program continues to be our top priority as we hone our meal distribution to better serve the special needs of Oakland’s unhoused individuals and families. We tailor our menus to the cultural preferences of our clients, providing choice of meal and weekly specials driven by their feedback. Working with trusted community groups, our clients are better served with our “Meals Plus” model where our quality meals are a bridge to other services and support.
We take care to distribute meals in an accessible way that is convenient for the recipients, so that the process of procuring meals doesn’t have to consume a disproportionate amount of time and keep people from having time to thrive and improve their situation.
There’s public funding for senior and youth meal programs, but not for our unhoused. So we are leading advocacy at city, county and state levels to help improve public benefits for our most underserved community members.