Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services

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 Clothing Program which distributes more than 7,000 items of free clothing to children and adults each week, totally over 450,000 articles of clothing to over sixty thousand people in 2008; the Mother-Baby Program which assist over four hundred parents with mentoring, baby clothing, formula, diapers and parenting workshops each month; The Women’s Wisdom Art program which promotes the healing of emotional and mental illness through artistic expression to over one hundred women annually; the Youth Academy, which operates an after school program; PlayCare, for parents who participate in SFBFS’ various educational programs serving over five hundred children and their families annually; The 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 Living program which promotes stability and economic independence for ten homeless families with children each year; and the Adult Education Center which provides 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. Over those years our organization and services have expanded from Emergency Food Distribution to a family social service organization with 9 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)

Office fax number: (916) 451-5920

Address:

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

Web Site: http://www.sacramentofoodbank.org

Last updated on November 6, 2009