Success Stories

Vouchers for Veggies- EatSF partners with over 40 different distribution sites across San Francisco. These partnerships are a crucial component of the program’s success and enable EatSF to reach [...]

A 69-year old EatSF participant and Curry Senior Center client receives EatSF vouchers along with a once-a-month nutrition class through the center located in the heart of the Tenderloin district [...]

Robert and David are both residents living in supportive housing in the Tenderloin and they have each been enrolled in EatSF for a couple of years. They receive regular food assistance from [...]

“I lost some weight, my A1C is down, my blood pressure’s normal. So, it’s helped in so many different ways. My doctors are very happy I got on this program.”– Sandra, Eat SF participant in the [...]

Challenges to accessing and consuming healthy food are not confined to San Francisco. 1.4 million residents of Los Angeles experience food insecurity or the lack of consistent access to enough [...]

Eating healthy to most may merely entail consuming more fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and lean protein. But eating healthy is an interplay of impacts on individual health, the environment, [...]

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 [...]