Voices of the Community - Covid-19’s Impact On Closing the Hunger Gap
Update: 2025-11-22
Description
This second highlight episode from our COVID-19 series journeys through San Francisco and the North Bay’s food-security ecosystem at its breaking point. Frontline leaders share how they moved entire meal programs outdoors, expanded pop-up pantries, built new hygiene hubs and hotel-based shelters, and kept elders safely fed at home—often with fewer volunteers and greater risk.
We explore:
How food banks built pop-up pantries and data-driven “daily essentials” programs. Why seniors, families, Black and Latinx communities bear the brunt of food insecurity. Mobile showers, hygiene hubs, and hand-washing stations as public health. Hotel-based shelters, sobering centers, and drop-in hubs for unhoused neighbors. The emotional impact on staff and volunteers who “never closed”
Featuring voices from SF-Marin Food Bank, Glide Memorial Church, Meals on Wheels SF, Redwood Empire Food Bank, Simply the Basics, Hayes Valley Bakeworks, St. Anthony’s, Lava Mae X, Community Forward SF, Tipping Point, and Project Homeless Connect.
Listen in, then visit voicesofthecommunity.com to explore resources, support the featured organizations, and help us match donations for three regional food providers.
We explore:
How food banks built pop-up pantries and data-driven “daily essentials” programs. Why seniors, families, Black and Latinx communities bear the brunt of food insecurity. Mobile showers, hygiene hubs, and hand-washing stations as public health. Hotel-based shelters, sobering centers, and drop-in hubs for unhoused neighbors. The emotional impact on staff and volunteers who “never closed”
Featuring voices from SF-Marin Food Bank, Glide Memorial Church, Meals on Wheels SF, Redwood Empire Food Bank, Simply the Basics, Hayes Valley Bakeworks, St. Anthony’s, Lava Mae X, Community Forward SF, Tipping Point, and Project Homeless Connect.
Listen in, then visit voicesofthecommunity.com to explore resources, support the featured organizations, and help us match donations for three regional food providers.
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