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| Last updated on March 10, 2008 |
OUR MISSION: The best way to address hunger and homelessness in our community is to prevent it. The pantry provides emergency food aid to working, low-income Berkeley families. The goal is two-fold: to provide families, especially those with children, with adequate sustenance and nutrition; and to help those families avoid losing their homes when bills for food, rent, health care and other necessities overwhelm them.
Description:
The Pantry is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons, distributing food packages from 2-4p.m. With just one part-time paid staff member, the Pantry depends on a dedicated core of wonderful volunteers to ensure that our clients receive the emergency food aid they need. Referring agencies include local Senior Centers, CIL, the Food Bank's Food Helpline, Berkley Public Health Nurses, Women's Daytime Drop-in Center, transitional housing programs and the like. Our records indicate that 45% of those who receive our food are children.
History:
The Berkeley Food Pantry, which now serves more than 14,000 Berkeley and Albany residents annually, has been providing emergency food aid since 1969, when several members of the Berkeley Friends Church began buying canned food and distributing it to those in need. Since the late-1970s, the Pantry has run as a separate secular entity, eventually employing a part-time director and relying on its own fund-raising. Originally conceived of as a solution to a short-term problem, it has been sustained by the commitment of the small congregation at the Friends Church, its loyal and hard-working volunteers from throughout the East Bay, grants from institutions, and donations of food and funding from the community.
Contact person: Elizabeth Strain, Executive Director, (phone), (email)
Address:
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1600 Sacramento St.
Berkeley, CA 94702
(See a map) |
Web Site: None specified
Directions:
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1600 Sacramento St.,Berkeley(at corner of Sacramento and Cedar)
From University Avenue
Turn North on Sacramento Street
At Cedar Street (second stop light you come to)
Make a U-turn and pull into the Friends Church Parking Lot
If you knock on the Pantry door and get no answer, please ring the Church doorbell (up the stairs in the parking lot, to the left of doors.)
Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: North Berkeley BART ,
Walk distance (in minutes): 3
Nearest Bus Stop: 19, 88, 1 minute walk |
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