Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services
- Address: 3333 Third Ave., Sacramento, CA 95817
- Phone: (916) 456-1980
- Web site: sfbs.org
About
The efforts of Father Dan Madigan to help the poor in the Del Paso Heights area 41 years ago was the genesis for the present day Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services.
The organizaton touts on its Web site that every dollar donated to the food bank is converted to $10 worth of goods and services to the community.
The food bank has a 25-member staff and more than 800 volunteers.
Programs
- Clothes Closet: provides free clothing to poor, needy and disadvantaged Women’s Wisdom Project: art program for women
- Child Services: program for children and parents to grow and learn together
- Community Learning Center: Oak Park CLC one on one instruction for adults in reading, writing, math, computer skills, GED prep and ESL.
- Sunday Lunch: provides more than 750 healthy and nutrition brown bag lunches to adults and children every Sunday, throughout the year
- Resource Central: small resource room for those with hardships
- Food Locker: provides groceries to more than 55,000 every year
- Mother-Baby Program: provides mentorship, parenting education and support, and childcare supplies
- Network Café: improves community resources and services to underserved
- Computer Clubhouse: aftershool program for “at-risk” youth between 8 and 18.
- Senior Bridge Builders: volunteer club of more than 150 members
- Havens Program: transitional living program for homeless and at-risk families with children
- SACA Community Learning Center: provides parenting clases, mother-baby services, ESL, GED, mentoring, and PlayCare