Each week, Hunger at Home hosts a drive-through food distribution event, providing fresh groceries to hundreds of families. This effort provides enough food to feed a family of four for a week. In addition to direct distributions, we supply food to shelters and nonprofit partners that serve unhoused individuals, seniors, and families in need.
Hunger at Home partners with venues, hotels, and restaurants of all sizes to rescue edible surplus food—whether it’s prepared meals, raw vegetables, fruit, or meat—and ensures it reaches those in need.
Recent California law (SB 1383) requires local businesses to repurpose edible food with the goal of 75% reduction of organic waste disposal by 2025. We assist your business in complying by collecting and repurposing surplus food, with a strong focus on food safety. Each donation is handled with strict adherence to current health and safety guidelines, ensuring it’s safe for consumption.
We manage everything from collection to safe handling and distribution, transforming your contributions into nutritious meals for the community.
Hunger at Home piloted a program this year in partnership with The Health Trust and San Jose State University Spartan Pantry to provide meals for food insecure students at SJSU.
SJSU is not alone. Throughout this process, we learned that food insecurity is a growing crisis across California’s college campuses.
38% of students at community colleges and 29% at four-year colleges experienced food insecurity in the last month.
More than 40% of college students who experience food insecurity report that it negatively impacts their academic performance.
Hunger at Home is providing 25,000 free, nutritious meals to the SJSU Spartan Pantry this academic year, including a variety of individual, microwaveable meal options to accommodate allergies, dietary preferences, and cultural needs.
Our goal is to expand this pilot program to all the colleges and universities in Silicon Valley.
Interested in learning more? Contact Ewell Sterner at ewell@hungerathome.org.
Created in 2020, the Hunger at Home Youth Council is made up of students with a passion for ending food insecurity and growing sustainability efforts in our community.
The Youth Council is dedicated to promoting the activities of Hunger at Home through volunteerism, education, and activism. Members are offered a positive forum to be creative, innovative, and develop leadership skills.
The council brings an important perspective and voice to Hunger at Home’s work as next generation leaders of our community and stewards of the environment.
