Hollywood Food Coalition

The community dinner - the community dinner program serves on average 250 hot nutritious meals every night of the year. In 2024 we served 98,000 meals. Volunteers and staff prepare multi-course meals that consist of meat and vegetable dishes, grains and starches, bread, green salads, fruit salads, desserts, and beverages. Sustainability is integral, with ingredients rescued by our community exchange. Hfc emphasizes nutritional, quality meals and affords our guests the dignity of choice between different dishes, including vegetarian and vegan options. The organization serves any hungry person, many of whom are unhoused, at risk of becoming unhoused, or low-income, with no exclusionary intake or prohibitive requirements that would turn them away. We are planning to move our dinner program (continued on sch. O) to a new location, which will be called refettorio la and include an improved program experience, such as seated table service and additional on-site services through our community wellness program. Approximately 9,500 volunteer hours contribute to the success of this program.

Community wellness - the program distributes 3,300 medical, housing and other services and 27,000 items of clothing, shoes, blankets, hygiene kits, and more. In partnership with 15 other agencies that regularly provide supportive services for its guests, among them 1. Ucla utilizing the ucla mobile medical clinic and the ucla mobile eye clinic, 2. Aids healthcare foundation utilizing their mobile testing unit for life-saving medical attention, 3. The center in hollywood and their housing works for housing and homeless service navigation programs, 4. Project ropa for clothing and hygiene kit donations; and 5. Project id for document recovery services.