GET SUPPORT
Need Food?
Free food for youth, under 18 years old found here:
California Meals for Kids is an app for your phone that lists free food option. Download it through Apple's App Store, Google Play, or Microsoft.
Locations of free food pick-ups in Oakland. List is here.
Food Banks offer free food, find one near you through the California Food Bank website, (input your zipcode to find a food bank closest to you) or some areas can call 211.
Alameda County call 1-510-635-3663 or go to: http://foodnow.net/ or http://comidaahora.net/
Berkeley call: (510) 463-4170
We also know neighbors are helping each other out, this is a community effort and many people want to be sure you are not hungry.
Undocumented Support
If you need help or can help someone who is undocumented, we encourage you to look through this broad set of resources so you have the best information to share and support our undocumented friends, families, and people.
Immigrants Rising, list of support information. En español aqui.
Oakland specific resources, thanks to Centro Legal dela Raza
Food Service Worker Support
We realize you may not have a choice to work right now and we appreciate what you are doing to ensure we all are fed. We also want you to be supported, many people do, such as:
ROC Relief Fund (Restourant Opportunities Center United)
Transit Documentation (CAFF)
Legal Support (Legal Aid)
Small
Business Support
Business Support
Many local government agencies are working to help you weather the financial stress of this pandemic. Here are a few resources we suggest:
Oakland Small Business Support (Information in multiple languages here)
Berkeley Small Business Support (Apply for help in Berkeley )
We hope to add more cities, email sustainablebayarea@gmail.com to add info here.
Need a more general type of support?
Mutual- aid: Means people helping people. It's a practice poor people have used for a long time "giving what you can to help others." Try these options for help:
This is a shared project of local leaders with deep experience in the Bay Area food system committed to sharing information to help us act.
Questions and queries can be sent to sustainablebayarea@gmail.com. Updates made on Sundays.
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