Success Stories

51 year old EatSF participant who lives at the Elm, a supportive housing site in the Tenderloin through the Episcopal Community Services (ECS), raves about the EatSF program: “I really [...]

EatSF/V4V is excited to share the impact of our program! Since 2015, our program  has served over 10,000 individuals and infused $1.5 million in produce purchases within low-income [...]

 “I think there should be more programs like this and more healthy options for our tenants. They don’t have a lot of income and it really helps,” Shannon, a case manager at Pacific Bay Inn, [...]

“I am just very grateful for this program,” exclaims PJ Iulio, Coordinator for the onsite food bank at the Hunters View Family Resource Center in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco. Iulio [...]

Palou Market, located in the heart of the Bayview neighborhood in San Francisco, is not your typical corner store. Four years ago, Palou Market partnered with Healthy Retail SF to design a store [...]

Meet Donald, 77-year-old EatSF participant who has endured many trials in his lifetime. Stress is not foreign to Donald – who often struggles to make ends meet. Donald has lived in San [...]

Since the beginning of the year, EatSF has worked alongside the Common Cents Lab, a behavioral science research lab at Duke University, to better understand and identify EatSF program [...]

Starting this month, EatSF is partnering with Black Infant Health (BIH) to expand our fruit and vegetable voucher program into the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco. Due to funding [...]

In February 2018, EatSF launched a pilot program called Vouchers 4 Veggies in the MacArthur Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Last month, staff conducted a focus group with participants and [...]

On a brisk Wednesday morning in June, Amber, an EatSF participant, was redeeming her vouchers at the bustling Heart of the City Farmer’s Market. She was enthusiastic to speak to the EatSF staff [...]