Alameda County Community Food Bank provides free food to those in need via their food banks. Their Food Assistance Helpline is also available. The helpline immediately connects callers to a source for groceries or a hot meal in Alameda County.

SERVICES PROVIDED: Food helpline and Cal Fresh application assistance.

PHONE: (510) 635-3663 (Food Helpline)

ADDRESS

7900 Edgewater Drive

Oakland, CA 94621

DAYS/TIMES OF SERVICE:

Monday-Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

NOTES/ELIGIBILITY: Alameda County residents.

Tri-City Volunteers (TVC) provides a drive-thru food distribution for individuals and families who need support meeting their basic nutritional needs. (Click on "Services" image to learn more!)

ADDRESS

37350 Joseph Street

Fremont, CA 94536

PHONE: (510) 793-4583

Lake Merritt UMC distributes healthy lunches and hygiene supplies on Tuesdays and Thursdays (11:30 – 1:00) to the unsheltered and other individuals in need around the southwest end of Lake Merritt. They go to where people are living with wagons of lunches and other supplies. They provide 400 lunches a week, 20,000 over a year. Additionally, every Tuesday they also provide walk-up bag lunches from the church parking lot at 1pm. All lunches are prepared every Monday at 2pm.