Ewell Sterner receives 2024 Community Impact award
Ewell Sterner was a single dad raising four young children and he often took them to volunteer at a food bank in San Diego. He clearly remembers the day his eight-year-old son said something that changed the course of the family’s life. Read More Back To Listing
Hunger at Home helping more restaurants with food recovery efforts
Every Tuesday in San Jose’s Santana Row, the Hunger at Home team isn’t shopping or dining out; they’re collecting unused, edible food from over half a dozen restaurants. This initiative, driven partly by a new state law, aims to combat the staggering 92 billion pounds of food wasted annually in the U.S. From upscale eateries […]
Celebrating a Milestone: Hunger at Home and DoorDash Deliver 70,000th Meal in Community Effort
In March, we reached an exciting milestone at Hunger at Home. Through innovative partnerships with DoorDash, the San Jose Earthquakes, and the City of San Jose, we delivered our 70,000th meal through our Project DASH program, which had been running for less than nine months. Utilizing DoorDash’s delivery logistics, the parking lot of PayPal Park […]
A Feast for the Future
The need for food is increasing in the one of the wealthiest places in the world — here’s how Hunger at Home is looking to meet that challenge. Hunger at Home takes the long view in fighting hunger, preparing nonperishable meals and training people to lift themselves out of poverty. Read More Back To […]
Hunger at Home evolves model in wake of COVID-19
When Ewell Sterner brought Hunger at Home to the Bay Area in 2016, the nonprofit’s primary mission was food waste recovery — picking up the unused meals from stadiums, hotels and banquet centers and getting them to nonprofits that fed the hungry. When COVID-19 hit, and those sources largely went dark, Sterner and COO Dinari […]