By now you must have heard LA Weekly’s Tacolandia 2015 on Saturday June 6th has been SOLD OUT. Lucky for you, there’s still a chance for you to get in on the taco action — Volunteer with Boobs4Food!

As a volunteer, you will have full access to the 80+ taco vendors hand selected by Street Gourmet LA,  hailing from L.A., the OC, San Diego and 3 different states in Mexico, refreshments, live mariachi music and basically fulfill all your taco dreams in one spot. Some of the participating restaurants include Border Grill, Amor Y Tacos, Coni’ Seafood, KOGI BBQ, La Guerrerense, Las 7 Regiones de Oaxaca, Mariscos Bahia de Ensenada, Mariscos Jalisco, Petty Cash Taqueria, Plan Check, Ricky’s Fish Tacos and more.

Volunteer duties include ticketing, gift bags, cashiering and assisting the bar. All volunteers must be ages 21 and up, as alcohol will be served at this event.

For more information or to sign up, please visit our Tacolandia2015 Volunteer Page on Facebook.

We at Boobs4Food have way too much fun volunteering, eating and just plain having a good time with our awesome volunteers. Here are just a few of the many amazeball moments we experience at least once a month!

Boobs4Food SF pose for a group shot before Beverage Duty at Eat Real Fest 2012. We love Charlotte!

Cheers! Hanging out at Two Sisters after Hayes Valley Farm

Boobs4Food LA volunteering at FoodGPS' LA Fried Chicken Fest benefiting No Kid Hungry.

Boobs4Food SF at the Alameda County Community Food Bank

Cant miss Team Boobs4Food in our neon SF Street Food Fest Volunteer Tees as we help cut limes for delicious cocktails benefiting La Cocina.

Team Boobs4Food means we are EFFICIENT, packing up non perishable food boxes for senior citizens in our community.

We've got the BEST bunch of volunteers!!! Come one, come all, each month we get to see our favorite do-good faces. Thank you for your support!

We are fortunate to have volunteers with quite the eye for photography, capturing beautiful photos at our volunteer events. Feel free to post photos from our events on our group and event pages, we’d love to see them. For more photos from past events, please visit our Boobs4Food Group Facebook Page. We look forward to seeing you at one of our upcoming volunteer events. Do Good!

DJ @Nerstylist Planting Chard at Hayes Valley Farm, February 2012

Help us kick off volunteering in 2013 by joining Boobs4Food SF at Hayes Valley Farm on Sunday, January 27th, 2013 12:00pm – 1:30pm. We are making it SUPER easy for you to volunteer this month, as no RSVP is required, just show up and bring a friend or two if you’d like! Of course, we’d love to know if we can look out for your beautiful smile at the farm.

Urban Farming is F-U-N. We’ve learned quite a bit about urban farming & permaculture from our friends over at Hayes Valley Farm. Past tasks have included mulching, planting/replanting vegetation like fava beans, harvesting produce, painting & light carpentry/handiwork.

Our dedicated volunteers L-R: Justin, Liberty, Nat, Brian, Phong & Jessica brave the SF cold and help plant Fava Beans and Chard at Hayes Valley Farm.

* All Ages Are Welcome, Kids & Strollers too

* No RSVP Required – just show up

* Wear comfortable clothes & shoes, you may walk in some mud (it is a farm after all)

* Tools will be provided, bring gardening gloves if you’d like

Location: Hayes Valley Farm

Address: 450 Laguna Street (main entrance gate between Fell & Oak), SF

Date: Sunday, 1/27/2013

Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm

For the 21& up crowd, we will head on over to Biergarten (weather permitting) after our shift for some food, drink & conversation.

More information can be found at our Boobs4Food SF Jan2013 Volunteer Event Facebook Page. Feel free to post a message or just say hello!

Boobs4Food in Hawaii Aug2009

As Boobs4Food embarks on a mid-year vacation to Hawaii, our favorite detox’n'grub locale for rest and relaxation, we’re honoring volunteerism as our mid-year passion in progress theme. In honor of last month, April, being National Volunteer Month, and our return to Hawaii to vacation and to volunteer again, our upcoming trip this week is a reminder on the importance of helping out communities in small ways that matter.

Passion in Progress is big on many things: food, music, art and travel, but one of our biggest passions in volunteering. We are constantly reminded of the words one of our nation’s leaders shared, “Loving your country shouldn’t just mean watching fireworks on the 4th of July”. We started Boobs4Food a little less than a year ago and traveled to Hawaii then for vacation but to also volunteer while on our break because we felt grateful for the lives we are able to live and we had a strong desire to pay it forward.

Boobs4Food participated in Kidney Walk SF 2010 in May. Photo courtesy of Miguel Escobedo

What drives us to volunteer is the feeling of fulfillment and empowerment in knowing we can help our communities in small ways. We’ve realized that those in our generation aren’t held back from volunteering or from giving back not because they aren’t willing, but that they haven’t had the access to opportunities to do so or they don’t want to do it all alone.  Whether it’s pitching in to fight hunger through giving your time or supporting a Kidney or Cancer Walk or even mentoring an neighborhood adolescent – all of these efforts are wanted, needed and appreciated to build better and stronger communities on a local and global level.

Dinner service @ The Midnight Mission in LA's Skid Row

On our upcoming trip to Hawaii in a couple days, we’ll be meeting up with our new friends at non-profit organization, Hands In Helping Out, to learn more about how they’ve successfully built an organization promoting the importance of volunteering in local communities because they realized there was a societal and personal need and desire to take on something they were passionate about: volunteering. We’ll also be meeting up with Hawaii Charity, a philanthropic social concierge serving results-oriented organizations, to learn more about how local communities in Hawaii are helping each other throughout the island.

This summer, whether you’re on summer break, on vacation or on a weekend, think about finding a cause or organization to donate your time to in building a better and stronger community as a gesture of loving your country and community beyond watching fireworks on the the Fourth of July.

-Jess

Follow HawaiiCharity on Twitter here: http://www.twitter.com/hawaiicharity

Follow HIHO on Twitter here: www.twitter.com/hihovolunteer

Read more about HIHO.org : Hands In Helping feature in the Honolulu Examiner

Volunteer at Hawaii Food Bank: www.hawaiifoodbank.org

January’s event will incorporate Brunch at Out The Door Bush St. and a short volunteer session with a Food Runners route on Sunday, 1/23/2011.

Where: Out The Door Bush. St & Fort Mason Farmers Market

Address: 2232 Bush St. (b/t Fillmore & Steiner) & Fort Mason Farmers Market  (Marina Safeway Parking Lot)

We invite you to join us for a Brunch at Out The Door from 11:30am – 1pm. This will give new & old volunteers a chance to meet before our Food Runners route. You may even choose not to eat but join us and hang out. Expec t brunch to run about $10.

At 1pm, we will head over to Fort Mason Farmers Market to collect leftover produce & goods from the vendors. Once collected, we will go on our separate routes to pre-assigned drop off points.
The Food Runners Route will be limited to 12 heads as this is the max capacity of 3 cars. We will take volunteers on a first come first serve basis. We will email you confirmation and event details once you RSVP. RSVP at our Boobs4Food Facebook Event Page.

If you opt out of the brunch portion, please meet in front of the Marina Safeway parking lot at 1:15pm. We should be able to complete vendor pick ups and drop offs by 3pm at the very latest.

Rain or shine, we shall be brunching and rescuing the farmers market donations. See you there!

About FoodRunners:
Food Runners is a volunteer organization dedicated to alleviating hunger in San Francisco. Our volunteers deliver over 10 tons of food a week to agencies feeding people in need. Food Runners picks up excess perishable and prepared food from businesses such as restaurants, caterers, bakeries, hospitals, event planners, corporate cafeterias, and hotels and delivers it directly to shelters and neighborhood programs that feed the hungry.

with Hanni El Khatib & White Arrows

Boobs4Food is proud to present our “Together We Can” Benefit Concert with Hanni El Khatib & White Arrows on Thursday January 27th, 2011 9:30pm at Mountain Bar. Door proceeds and raffle ticket sales will go directly to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. Please join us in our continued fight against hunger as we bring together a great night of live music from two of LA’s up and coming bands, drinks and fun raffle prizes for charity.

Where: Mountain Bar, 473 Gin Ling Way (b/t N. Broadway & N. Hill St in Chinatown) Los Angeles, CA

Doors: 9:30pm

Tickets:

$10 Pre-Sale via Eventbrite (includes 1 raffle ticket)

$12 at the door (cash only, includes 1 raffle ticket)

We encourage you to purchase your ticket early as venue space is limited.

Raffle Tickets: 1 for $2, 5 for $5 (all proceeds will be donated to LA Regional Food Bank)

If you cannot attend our benefit, you can also show your support by donating to our Boobs4Food LA Food Bank Virtual Food Drive.

Artist Info:

Hanni El Khatib (taken from Innovative Leisure website)

“With a Black Keys-ish, authentic rock and roll vibe, San Francisco-based Hanni El Khatib is a one-man band that’s been selling out smoky bars and filling them full of bluesy electric guitar, drums and fuzzy amps. El Khatib is joined live by a drummer, but he writes, records and produces all songs on his own. One recent single, “You Rascal You,” is a masterful reinterpretation of a ’30s jazz standard.” – Gibson

“Hanni El-Khatib is one of the most talented acts in L.A. right now, a one-man band, singing, songwriting, and producing all on his own and synthesizing 50s and 60s garage rock, soul, blues, and even a bit of folk. El-Khatib’s attitude is his greatest attribute; anyone who strives to write songs for “anyone who’s ever been shot or hit by a train” and brings with him the rawness of Phil Spector, Jack White, the Shangri-Las, and the Black Keys.” – LA Weekly

White Arrows

Made up of L.A. natives Mickey Schiff & Henry Schiff, JP Caballero, Steven Vernet, Rob Banks, and Damon Kellard, White Arrows is a band we’d like to see appear at Coachella. Part electro, part rock, 100% dance until the lights turn off kind of fun. We can’t wait to get down with the White Arrows set at our show! To get a preview of their sound, download their remixes from The Voyeur album.

Check out The Daily Truffle’s interview with Mickey here.

Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The mission of the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. To fulfill our mission we must:

• Source and acquire food and other products and distribute to needy people through charitable agencies or directly through programs;
• Energize the community to get involved and support hunger relief;
• Conduct hunger education and awareness campaigns and advocate for public policies that alleviate hunger.

Our vision is that no one goes hungry in Los Angeles County.

More Info:

Boobs4Food Together We Can Benefit Concert Facebook Event Page

Follow Us on Twitter @Boobs4Food

Email us at: info [at] boobs4food.com

Hanni El Khatib: website / Twitter / facebook

White Arrows: website / twitter / facebook

Mountain Bar: website

Los Angeles Regional Food Bank: website / twitter / facebook

“Scattergories. The bane of my existence.” – Dec25th

“Love how Park’s BBQ shortrib recipe influenced Mozza’s! http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/dining/22mozza.html?_r=1&ref=dining” - Dec22nd

“Guilty RT @Boobs4Food: Someone started snoring during the couples massage… LOL.” – Dec18th

“Shits and giggles last night watching Too Short, Eazy-E and NWA videos…while making corn dogs!” – Dec11th

“All my fav Christmas songs playing at Ranch 99 but I’m the only one singing aloud. #fobshavenoholidayspirit ” – Nov24th

“In order to truly enjoy the lamb chops scottadito at Cotogna, you gotta eat them with your hands. Finger licking good.” – Nov24th

“High West rye is making my Monday afternoon go by faster.” – Nov22nd

Signed,

@CousinCoug (Follow@CousinCoug on Twitter)

Our December Event, Saturday Decemeber 11th, 8:30a-12:30p, will bring us back to SF’s Project Open Hand! Given the enthusiasm shared for November’s event and limited spots available, we’re doing back-to-back visits to one of our favorites!

PLEASE NOTE – we are trying out RSVP’ing via Google Docs so please click on this link to RSVP YES/MAYBE/NO or leave a comment.

Since 1985, Project Open Hand has been providing “meals with love” to people living with serious illnesses and to seniors in San Francisco and Alameda County. Project Open Hand provides food and nourishment to improve the quality of life of the men, women and children it serves. Project Open Hand programs include: meal, grocery and nutrition information, education and referral for people with symptomatic HIV and AIDS; lunch and nutrition education for people over 60 years of age; and meal service for homebound critically ill people under the age of 60.

We hope you can join us for a few rewarding hours providing “meals with love” to the clients of this amazing program especially during the season of giving and when times are especially tough. Common duties include helping out in the kitchen, grocery center, packing food, etc.

Street parking is available along Polk, please read all signs carefully to avoid parking tickets. We recommend parking at AMC 1000 or other neighboring lots.

Spaces are limited, please sign up soon with the Google Docs link. If you end up not being able to make it, please let us know so we can allow a waiting list volunteer to attend in your place. We will contact you directly to inform you of final confirmation that you have been saved a spot.

Please stay to grub with us afterwards as we’ll pick somewhere fabulous to eat around the area. For more information, please visit www.Boobs4Food.com or DM us at www.twitter.com/Boobs4Food. Please also follow POH at @ProjectOpenHand

We look forward to fighting hunger with you!

Best,
Jessica, Kat and Liberty Boobs4Food SF

Boobs4Food SF will be volunteering at Project Open Hand in San Francisco Saturday, November 20th from 11:00am – 4:00pm. We hope you can join us for a few rewarding hours providing “meals with love” to the clients of this amazing program especially during the season of giving and when times are especially tough. Common duties include helping out in the kitchen, grocery center, packing food, etc.

Since 1985, Project Open Hand has been providing “meals with love” to people living with serious illnesses and to seniors in San Francisco and Alameda County.

Project Open Hand provides food and nourishment to improve the quality of life of the men, women and children it serves. Project Open Hand programs include: meal, grocery and nutrition information, education and referral for people with symptomatic HIV and AIDS; congregate lunch and nutrition education for people over 60 years of age; and meal service for homebound critically ill people under the age of 60.

Please wear closed toe shoes, dress comfortably and cozy as there might be light lifting. We also recommend leaving your valuables at home or in your car. A light lunch is served during our shift.

Street parking is available along Polk, please read all signs carefully to avoid parking tickets. We recommend parking at AMC 1000 and get your parking ticket validated in the movie theater lobby before returning to your car.

Spaces are limited, please sign up soon. However you RSVP with us, we will contact you directly to inform on final confirmation as tracking Facebook RSVPs can be challenging as many of you know. Please stay to grub with us afterwards as we’ll pick somewhere fabulous to eat around Larkin (i.e. Lers Ros Thai, Turtle Tower, etc.)

For more information, please visit www.Boobs4Food.com or DM us at www.twitter.com/Boobs4Food. Please also follow POH at @ProjectOpenHand

We look forward to fighting hunger with you!

We’ll be supporting Meals on Wheels by volunteering at various tents around the event – and there are staggered shifts through out the day starting from a 10am start time to a 1pm start time. All volunteers will be able to enjoy the event during their 30-mi n breaks or afterwards.

Duties include: Selling Raffle Tickets or working the wine tent! Don’t worry about having to volunteer alone. You will be paired up with another B4F volunteer for this event.

For more on Fall Fest visit: http://sffallfest.com/ Tickets to this event go for $95 so why not volunteer and enjoy the event for free.

Available shifts include:

11-4 Raffle Ticket Booth (2 half hour breaks)

10-1p Wine Tent *SLOTS FILLED*

1-5p Wine Tent (break TBD)

*Please RSVP on the wall which shift you’d like to work, first come, first serve*

May the weather be sunny! We’re getting close to the date of the event, as it is less than 7 days away, so please RSVP asap or email info@boobs4food.com if you have any questions. Thanks so much and we look forward to volunteering together again to fight hunger!