The San Francisco legal community really raised the bar in 2011, breaking all their previous records by bringing in $513,783 and 13,386 pounds of food to help end hunger in San Francisco and Marin. Since the San Francisco Food Bank can turn every dollar donated into $6 worth of food, that adds up to well over [...]
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What do SF Giant Brian Wilson’s beard and 2,240 cans of beans have in common? The superstar relief pitcher’s infamous beard was one of 13 San Francisco icons contructed from canned food by some of the city’s top architecture, engineering and building firms. Check out this cool time-lapse video of The Design Partnership and McCarthy [...]
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Frances is a new monthly donor, who was inspired to give after participating in a food drive and listening to the announcement of September 16th’s KGO Fights Hunger Day. I’m a daily KGO listener and last week, I heard them mentioning a big announcement coming the next day. They mentioned it so many times that [...]
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“Imagine you don’t have a well-paying job. Imagine you don’t have a nice apartment, or your home. You have three kids. You’re working part-time at McDonald’s. Then you have another job on top of that. You have one child in childcare, two in school, and you’re paying more than half of your income for rent. [...]
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