Success Stories

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 [...]

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 [...]