Hollywood Food Coalition

Community exchange - the program is designed to provide small to medium sized nonprofits throughout l.a. county with the Food they need, so they can focus on their missions. The organizations careful recipient intake and feedback process, paired with its innovative Food rescue inventory system, allows it to create a model where resources can be redirected more precisely to underserved communities. Hfc works with each organization to develop a deep understanding of their programs needs, preferences, populations served, and constraints. The organization has ongoing conversations, often weekly, to improve offerings and ensure it is responsive to changing needs in the community. During 2023 the organization served over 140 organizations and distributed over 2.2 million lbs of Food.

Community wellness - the program distributes thousands of articles of clothing, shoes, blankets, hygiene kits, and more. Hfc partners with five nonprofits that regularly provide supportive services for its guests, specifically 1. Ucla utilizing the ucla mobile medical clinic and the ucla mobile eye clinic, 2. Aids healthcare foundation utilizing their mobile testing unit for life-saving medical attention, 3. The center in Hollywood and their housing works for housing and homeless service navigation programs, 4. Project ropa for clothing and hygiene kit donations and 5. Project id for document recovery services.

The community dinner - the community dinner - the program serves on average 250 hot nutritious meals every night of the year. In 2023 we served approximately 90,000 meals. Volunteers and staff prepare multi-course meals that consist of meat and vegetable dishes, grains and starches, bread, green salads, fruit salads, desserts, and beverages. Sustainability is integral, with ingredients rescued by our community exchange. Hfc emphasizes nutritional, quality meals and affords our guests the dignity of choice between different dishes, including vegetarian and vegan options. The organization serves any hungry person, many of whom are unhoused, at risk of becoming unhoused, or low-income, with no exclusionary intake or prohibitive requirements that would turn them away. We are planning to move our dinner program to a new location, which will be called refettorio la and include an improved program experience, such as seated table service and additional on-site services through our community wellness program. Approximately 9,500 volunteer hours contribute to the success of this program.