By combating food insecurity in the Bay Area and increasing hunger relief, we enable individuals to use their limited financial resources to pay for other basic needs like rent, utilities, transportation, and healthcare.
We believe everyone has the right to hot and nutritious prepared meals.
We provide hot and nutritious prepared meals five days a week across the Bay Area. We also partner with nonprofits at 40 locations throughout Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties to provide free prepared meals to guests at low-income senior retirement centers, community centers, schools, shelters, transitional housing, and after school programs.
Our Community Meals Program provides over 24,000 free hot and nutritious prepared meals every week.
Since we know that most people living below the poverty line don’t have access to affordable and nutritious meals, we make it our job to provide them with what a full, healthy meal should look like. We make sure our meals are well balanced with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables and healthy protein choices that they couldn’t afford otherwise.
We serve meals five days a week at the following locations and are accepting volunteers.
Goodwill Industries
1080 North 7th Street, San Jose, CA 95112
3:00 to 4:00 pm
Piedmont Hills High School
1377 Piedmont Rd, San Jose, CA 95132
4:00 to 5:00 pm
Our fleet of refrigerated trucks recover and re-distribute prepared meals at no cost to neighborhoods throughout Santa Clara and San Mateo counties where people face food insecurity in the Bay Area.
We’re able to provide meals to feed hungry families, children, seniors, veterans, students, and disabled individuals throughout our Bay Area community - helping to combat food insecurity, increase hunger relief, and reduce waste. By becoming an active participant in the food recovery movement, we’ve become the largest prepared-food distribution program in the Bay Area. We are feeding hungry individuals while also reducing our carbon footprint and our partner food donors’ carbon footprint. Since it’s inception, ALC has recovered over 1.1 Million pounds of food that otherwise would had gone to the landfill or compost.
But we know there is still more work to be done - to share meals that serve as many of our hungry neighbors as possible.
Meals on Wheels delivers fresh, nutritious meals straight to clients' homes, along with a friendly visit and a wellness check during delivery. Our meals meet one-third of the daily nutritional requirements for older adults. Clients can receive up to seven frozen meals weekly or one hot meal delivered daily. To qualify, clients must be 60 years of age or older, who – due to illness or disability – cannot buy food or cook meals for themselves, and who do not have someone to purchase food or cook meals for them on a consistent basis.
Medically Tailored Food and Nutrition services are provided to Medi-Cal clients with chronic health conditions or who have recently been discharged from the hospital. Santa Clara Family Health Plan refers clients for a variety of services, including Medically Tailored Meals, Medically Tailored Groceries, or Nutrition Education. These "Food is Medicine" services aim for better health outcomes, improved client satisfaction, and ultimately lower healthcare costs. Our Registered Dieticians approve the meals and groceries and provide the nutrition assessments and education.
Preparing affordable, nutritious meals can be a challenge for people living with HIV/AIDS. The Jerry Larson FoodBasket helps support these individuals and their families by providing food assistance. Clients can shop twice a month and choose from an array of fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy products, canned and packaged goods, and frozen meat.
Home-delivered meals are available for homebound clients. Eligibility is based on income level and need.