San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
Disability services
Pomeroy Recreation & Rehabilitation Center: The mission of Pomeroy Recreation & Rehabilitation Center is to provide recreational, vocational and educational opportunities for people with disabilities. Program staff may be available to visit your home and take your participant out for a brief walk.
To donate: www.prrcsf.org
Food Runners: The organization delivers meals to neighborhood food programs. They need volunteers to pick up perishable and prepared food from businesses and deliver it in vehicles directly to neighborhood food programs. The relay program provides enough food for more than 20,000 meals every week in San Francisco.
To volunteer: www.foodrunners.org
Hands on Bay Area: The organization has compiled a list of ways people can volunteer for community support, including food banks, food pantries, deliveries and more.
To volunteer: www.handson bayarea.org
Meals on Wheels: The organization delivers about 7,200 meals a day to 3,600 residents, most of whom are over 60 and have difficulty leaving the house. They need donations to support their services.
To donate: www.mowsf.org
Project Open Hand: The organization provides nutritious meals to the sick and vulnerable.
To donate or volunteer: www.open hand.org
San Francisco-Marin Food Bank: The organization serves more than 141,000 people every week. The food bank, which relies on volunteers, has seen roughly half of its volunteers cancel shifts for March.
To donate or volunteer: www.sfm foodbank.org
Second Harvest: The food bank provides food to more than 250,000 people in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties every month. It needs donations and volunteers to sort or distribute food.
To volunteer: www.shfb.org
Silicon Valley Strong: The organization was launched by San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo as an initiative for those most hurt by the pandemic. The group needs donations and volunteers to help food security for the county’s residents — primarily seniors and the medically vulnerable.
To volunteer: https://bit.ly/ sanjosestrong
St. Anthony Foundation: The organization provides 2,400 meals a day and also provides people in need with clean clothing and addiction recovery services. The group needs one-time donations or monthly donations to support its services.
To donate: www.stanthonysf.org
Supply Bank: Functioning similar to a food bank, Supply Bank distributes other provisions, including baby wipes, diapers, etc. It partners with 450 agencies throughout the Bay Area and elsewhere in the state and plans to stay open during the coronavirus pandemic.
To donate or volunteer: www. supplybank.org
For other California food banks: www.cafoodbanks.org. to call elderly people in the community.
To volunteer: www.littlebrothers sf.org
Oakland at Risk Match: The nonprofit pairs healthy young adults at low risk for COVID-19 with an elder or immunocompromised person who might need help over the next few weeks.
To volunteer: www.oakland atrisk.com
Volunteer: Essentials Delivery: This community initiative organizes volunteers to shop for and deliver essentials to an elderly and/or immunocompromised neighbor. It needs healthy volunteers to be matched with a vulnerable member of the community.
To volunteer: https://bit.ly/ essentialdeliveries
To donate: https://giving.ucsf.edu/ coronavirus