SFBFS is a private non-profit organization dedicated to assisting those in need by alleviating their immediate pain, and moving people toward self-sufficiency and financial independence.

Description:
SFBFS' continuum of helping services includes: Two Emergency Food Locker Programs which provide more than 400,000 bags of groceries to over 55,000 unduplicated people, each year; The Clothes Closet Program which distributes more than 7,000 items of free clothing to children and adults each week, totally over 400,000 articles of clothing to over sixty thousand people in 2005; The Sunday Lunch Program which gives out more than 60,000 prepared lunches on an annual basis to over 30,000 families; Two Mother-Baby Programs which assist over four hundred parents with mentoring, baby clothing, formula, diapers and parenting workshops each month; The Women?s Wisdom Project which promotes the healing of emotional and mental illness through artistic expression to over one hundred women annually; The Children?s Services Center which operates an after school program and play care for parents who participate in SFBFS? various educational programs serving over five hundred children and their families annually; The Intel Computer Clubhouse which gives over twenty-five ?At-risk? and low-income youth the opportunity to learn the use of sophisticated computer systems and software for creative expression; The Havens Transitional Housing Program which promotes stability and economic independence for ten homeless families with children each year; and Two Adult Community Learning Centers which provide adult tutoring, basic education, literacy, GED preparation, English as a Second Language and computer skills to hundreds of adults annually. SFBFS is a private non-profit organization, which relies on the support of individuals and businesses in the community in order to lead people from the depths of impoverishment to the pinnacle of self-actualization. This is accomplished through monetary or goods donations, and/or people volunteering their time to help people during hard times.

History:
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services was founded by Fr. Daniel Madigan in the basement of his Oak Park church in 1976. Pained by watching so many people, including small children, go hungry in the streets of Sacramento, he called together a cadre of compassionate volunteers to tackle the problem. 2006 is our 30th Year Anniversary. Over those years our organization and services have expanded from Emergency Food Distribution to a family social service organization with 12 different educational and emergency programs dedicated to helping people in crisis.

Contact people:

Blake Young, Executive Director, (phone), (email) Leona Doyle, Executive Assistant, (phone), (email) Jeremiah Rhine, Programs Director, (phone), (email)

Address:

3333 Third Avenue Sacramento, CA 95817 (See a map)