St. Francis Center

Objective 1: Facilitate Healthy Living Family Well­-Being Program
• Provide a total of 16,000 Pantry Service grocery visits for families and individuals on site and at satellite pantry sites.
• Ensure pantry participants can select over 40-­50 pounds of food each visit that includes fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, dairy, rice, beans and canned food.
Homeless Well­-Being Program
• Improve nutrition in the community by providing warm, wholesome breakfasts and lunches to 100,000+ guests annually.
• Provide shower and hygiene kit services to 3,500 homeless guests annually.

Objective 2: Provide Tools to Enable Stable Living Homeless Well-­Being Program
• Provide Resource Services to 50 meal service guests a month and provide case management to 50 guests a year.

We provided 100,000 meals to our guests experiencing homelessness (more than double what we were serving six years ago) through our warm, nutritious breakfast served on site six days a week. We also provided over 22,000 grocery visits to our on-site pantry services and satellite pantry sites, which is 20 percent more visits than we provided last year. We expanded our pantry services to include two satellite pantry sites over the last two years in neighborhoods lacking access to fresh, affordable food. Through our case management offerings, we are providing more comprehensive services for our guests to get them on a long-term path to stability including emergency shelter, permanent, supportive housing, employment opportunities, utilities and rental assistance.

Volunteers play a vital role in supporting SFC's daily operations. Whether they are from a local high school, corporate groups including Caruso Affiliated and SoCal Gas, or individuals, 3,076 volunteers donated 21,496 hours of service last year!

Well­-respected community partners including Clinica Romero, QueensCare Health and Faith Partnership, St. John's Well Child, and the UCLA Mobile Eye Clinic provide medical and vision clinics on site at six times/month and dental services through a new partnership with USC's dental school. Another new partner, Lava Mae, provides a mobile shower unit onsite and case management through LAHSA and PATH making it possible for SFC to offer showers five days/week.

SFC has longstanding partnerships with many food suppliers from large stores including Target, and Lucky's, to regional food banks that donate in­kind food. This year, we started rescuing food from Costco and several USC fraternities. Last year, SFC rescued $2.4 million of food.

In 2020 we:
Accommodated 39,477 pantry program visits compared to 22,415 visits in 2019.
Rescued 1.9 million pounds of food.
Our Resources team provided 2,140 supportive services visits.
Served 74,000 meals to homeless guests.
Provided Rental and Utility Assistance to 123 families and one-on-one case management to 15 guests.
Participated in 48 pop-up, drive-through pantry programs in food desert communities.
In partnership with Helping Hands and Uber Eats, we began to deliver our pantry to vulnerable recipients, reducing their exposure to the outside world and COVID-19.
Provided 816 showers to our homeless guests through our mobile shower partner, the CARE team through the City of LA.
Sent 123 youth to virtual day camps with our summer camp partners, Camp Bob Waldorf and Camp Whittle, where they learned art, dance, cooking, and even trapeze.
Completed our much-anticipated kitchen renovation at the end of June which has allowed us to use more of the food we rescue, and prepare it more efficiently.