No one should go hungry
Your support can
make a difference
Food Now improves the quality of life for residents of Eastern Riverside County by providing food assistance, community outreach, and support services which strengthen families and build healthy communities.
Weekly Food Distributions
Food Now provides weekly food distributions every Wednesday and Thursday from 7:30am till 10:30am
Clients are required to register to continue to receive assistance. Please bring proof of residency and proof of income to register.
Food Now
Food Now is dedicated to offering 1,000,000 pounds of nourishing and wholesome food options annually to vulnerable and at-risk populations, including low-income families, children, seniors, veterans, and our unsheltered neighbors. Our service area includes Desert Hot Springs, Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Whitewater, Painted Hills, North Palm Springs, Thousand Palms, Sky Valley, other parts of unincorporated Riverside County.
The Children’s Weekend Meals Initiative
The Food Now Children's Weekend Meals Program is a collaboration with the Palm Springs Unified School District to extend vital nutritional assistance to specific, persistently hungry children over the weekends, ensuring they receive additional nourishment. By providing hundreds of elementary school-age kids with meals on weekends, they come to school on Monday ready to learn, grow, and be happy.
Home Deliveries
Food Now provides essential home deliveries of supplemental food to disabled veterans and individuals who are medically unable to leave their homes. This service ensures that these vulnerable individuals receive the necessary sustenance they need to maintain their health and well-being.
Homeless Needs Program
Food Now provides homeless clients with a daily distribution of special ready to eat food packages and personal hygiene items.
Companion Animal Feeding Program
Taking proper care of our pets can be a challenge, but is essential to a happy, healthy household. Food Now provides weekly distributions of pet food and supplies.
Periodic health screening by a medical doctor
Periodic health screenings identify existing or pre-existing diseases and health risks, specifically obesity and diabetes. At risk clients are offered counseling on the importance of healthy life choices including diet and reap the benefits of early health risk detection.
Weekly outreach
A community benefits coordinator is available to assist clients and help them to understand and enroll in benefits available including Edison’s CARE Program, WIC, SNAP, Affordable Health Care and Cover California. Presentations are available in English and Spanish.
YOUR SUPPORT WILL HELP END HUNGER, GIVE HOPE, AND IMPROVE LIVES
LIVE DONATION
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Accomplishments and
Milestones
We prioritize the nutritional well-being of those we serve by making sure the food items we provide are in line with USDA recommended daily portions of fruits, vegetables, proteins, grains, and dairy products. A healthy diet is crucial for a healthy lifestyle. In the last twelve months, your generous donations made a significant impact on the lives of 5,089 individuals, including 1,562 children and 1,238 seniors by providing weekly food distributions. During that time, we received 29,878 individual requests for food assistance and met that need by distributing 979,313 pounds of healthy and nutritious food, enough food to prepare over 800,000 meals. 2/3 of the food we distribute is fruits and vegetables.
Your support allowed us to expand home delivery services to veterans and individuals unable to leave their homes. Currently, 25% of all weekly distributions are home delivered, about 100 per week. Your generosity helped increase the number of hungry kids we can help on weekends. Today we partner with seven local elementary schools to provide 210 students with additional nutritional support through the Weekend Children’s Meals Program.
With your help, every day, Food Now provides between 50 and 60 of our unsheltered neighbors ready to eat meals and essential personal hygiene items. Your contributions enable us to assist seniors on limited budgets by providing essential non-food items and even extended our care to their beloved pets through our Companion Pet Food Program. Your ongoing generosity continues to create a profound and positive impact within our community.
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