Feeding America Riverside San Bernardino Counties

FOOD SHARE PROGRAMPromoting sustainability and capacity building, Feeding America Riverside|San Bernardino works with over 300 partner agencies to provide hunger-relief services and emergency food assistance to neighborhooods throughout Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. Our non-profit partners are held to a strict set of guidelines and governing procedures that ensure food is distributed safely in accordance with state and federal law. Bi-annual site visits are conducted to monitor site operations, verify food safety compliance, assess capacity, and recommend program service enhancements. This program is conducted through food pantries, community centers, residential facilities, group homes and mobile food pantries. The program currently reaches over 400,000 men, women and children monthly.

Senior citizen food distribution: distributions take place once per month at various locations at pre-scheduled times. Qualification guidelines are the same as for the usda efap. Each site is limited as to the number of eligible participants. This program currently serves over 1,000 low-income seniors. Program food is provided by the state of California dss and donated food from the food industry, local food drives and corporate donors.

The emergency food assistance program (efap) provides united states department of agriculture (usda) commodities to a network of agency partner sites in Riverside county for distribution to eligible individuals and households. In order to be eligible for usda commodities, a recipient or household must reside in the geographical area being served and meet established income guidelines. The program is managed through 40 partner organizations assisting nearly 140,000 men, women and children monthly.