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. Hofoco 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 2022 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 nonprofits that regularly provide supportive services for its guests, including the ucla mobile clinic project, ucla mobile eye clinic and aids healthcare foundation mobile testing unit for life-saving medical attention and access to the continuum of care the center in Hollywood and housing works for housing and homeless service navigation project ropa for clothing and hygiene kit donations and project id for document recovery services.

The community dinner - the program serves on average more than 200 hot nutritious meals every night of the year. In 2022 we served over 85,000 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 most Food rescued by our community exchange. Hfc emphasizes nutritionally complete and 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.