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.

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!

Date: Sunday, September 18, 2010

Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm

Location: Second Harvest Peninsula Distribution Center – 1051 Bing St., San Carlos, CA

September is Hunger Action Month and we’re taking action to fight hunger by partnering with Second Harvest Food Bank of San Mateo County for our September B4F event! We’ll be volunteering at the Peninsula Distribution Center for Second Harvest and we’re excited to invite you in on the fun to join us on Saturday, September 18th from 9am to Noon, as we give back to our local Bay Area communities.

Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties has been providing services to the community since 1974. They are the single largest nonprofit provider of food to low-income households in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties and they are the FIFTH LARGEST food bank in the country. On average, they serve over 200K patrons a month with a majority of people they serve being seniors and low-income families with children.

For this event, we’ll be in charge of sorting through donated non-perishable items. The minimum age to volunteer at this Food Bank is 14 years of age.

Dress code is casual and comfortable – no shorts, no tank tops. Closed toe shoes and long pants are required. We’ll have a volunteer form for all attendees to fill out closer to the date.

There isn’t much flexibility on late arrivals to this particular organization so if you are interested in coming, it is crucial you arrive on time and if you can’t make it, to please give us 7 day advanced notice if possible as our group size cannot exceed 20.

We will provided further information for attendees the week leading up to the 18th! We look forward to seeing you!

For more information, please email info [at] boobs4food.com or visit our Facebook event page.
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Thank you!

Team Boobs4Food

Feeding America: more info

Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara & San Mateo Counties: more info

Date: Wednesday September 15, 2010

Time: 5:00pm – 9:00pm

Location: Bloodhound 1145 Folsom St. at 7th, San Francisco, CA 94103

Who loves Boobs+Baos+Bloodhounds?! WE DO! Boobs4Food SF Presents “Boobs, Baos & Bloodhounds!” Celebrating the 1-year Anniversary of our volunteer group, Boobs4Food SF, at Bloodhound Bar with the Chairman Bao Truck to benefit Meals on Wheels SF! Please join us next Wednesday, 9/15/2010, from 5-9pm at Bloodhound SF Bar! We’re organizing this event not just to celebrate our 1-year of fighting hunger but to have an event where all of our volunteers – past, present and future can mingle with each other as often times our monthly volunteer events don’t always leave room for everyone to get to know each other!

Featured attractions for next Wednesday include:

• YOU – our near and dear volunteers who we are forever grateful for!
  
• The Boobs4Food SF team: Kat, Lib, Jess and Robert
• The Chairman Bao Truck will be parked out front serving up their savory steamed and baked baos/buns filled with pork belly, pulled pork, red sesame chicken, duck confit & vegetarian friendly garlic tofu. Click here: Chairman Bao Truck Menu
  
• Bloodhound will have Beefeater Brand Ambassador Erick Castro (former Bar Manager of Rickhouse) doing some mixology!

For more information, please contact info [at] boobs4food.com or visit our Facebook event page.
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Image courtesy of LaCocina

Boobs4Food SF is excited to announce that our August volunteer event, Saturday 8/21/2010 from 12-4pm, will be supporting the SF Street Food Festival! This food festival is hosted by La Cocina, a non-profit organization and incubator kitchen that provides affordable commercial kitchen space and technical assistance to low-income and immigrant entrepreneurs who are launching and growing food businesses. Proceeds will support the efforts of La Cocina and this event will promote street food by offering affordable and delicious foods made by food entrepreneurs who reflect our diverse community.

For the actual day of the event, SF Street Food Festival is expecting over 25,000 people to attend and need all hands on board! Aside from working for a fantastic and delicious cause, they guarantee volunteers a great time, great food and, best of all, working with a group of amazing people. Oh, and you’ll also get to rock a free “I Cart Street Food” t-shirt!

Though our slot time is 12-4pm (check-in begins at 11:30am), please arrive early to find parking or to walk over via public transportation. Public transportation is highly recommended! Various responsibilities will include directing patrons, passing out flyers, helping vendors, etc.

Parking will be extremely limited on the day of the event. We strongly recommend that you use publi c transportation. BART stop at Mission & 24th St. or park your bike at bike valet in Garfield Park. If you must drive, park at Glen Park Station then BART one station to Mission
& 24th St.
- Muni: 12, 14, 14L, 27, 48, 67
- Please plan to wear comfortable clothes and good walking shoes.

Participate in the SF Street Food Photo Contest!

When you arrive, check-in at the Volunteer Check-in located outside at the Club House in Garfield Park. The Volunteer Manager will check you in (say you’re with Boobs4Food), confirm your duties, and issue any necessary materials. After you check-in, find Jessica and Liberty as Team Boobs4Food will be gathering on the side. Jessica and Liberty will be wearing black Boobs4Food tees. The organizers will be provide you with a tee shirt and tickets for fee food as a thank you for your support. Have fun and thank you again!

We look forward to having you join us at SF Street Food Fest!

Photo courtesy of Taste of the Nation

Boobs4Food SF is thrilled to volunteer at Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation event in San Francisco on Thursday April 29, 2010 at AT&T Park. Taste of the Nation events are happening all across the country, with the mission of ending childhood hunger.

Over 40 of San Francisco Bay Area’s finest chefs, wineries & bartenders are participating at this year’s event, by donating their time, talent & passion.  100% of ticket sales supports Share Our Strength’s efforts to end childhood hunger.  Proceeds from this year’s Taste of the Nation San Francisco will support three amazing local organizations: FoodRunners.org, Playworks.org & Children of Shelter.

For a complete list of participating chefs, restaurants & wineries, click here.

Share Our Strength: No Kid Hungry

In 2004, Share Our Strength developed its national strategy to end childhood hunger in America. This strategy focuses on long-term solutions that support access to nutritious foods and healthy choices—the difference between feeding a family tonight and ensuring that they never have to worry about when their next meal will come. It is designed to bridge the gaps between existing, effective programs and the families who need them. Learn More »

At its core are three sensible goals:

• Increase access to public and private programs that provide food to children and their families.
• Strengthen community infrastructure and systems that connect children to healthy food.
• Improve knowledge about available programs and how to get the most from limited resources.

How We Share Our Strength

Since 1988, Taste of the Nation has raised more than $70 million. Funds from Taste of the Nation are directly invested in the most successful organizations committed to ending childhood hunger in America. Working with state and local organizations across America, we implement our national childhood hunger strategy as well as its supporting 10-point plan. Learn more about our childhood hunger strategy and 10 point plan »

Internationally, Taste of the Nation has raised 85% of the more than $10.3 million Share Our Strength has granted to organizations. We focus our efforts in four priority countries, Ethiopia, El Salvador, Haiti and Mexico, that are working toward sustainable solutions to underdevelopment, poverty and hunger.

More information regarding the local organization benefiting from Taste of the Nation San Francisco 2010:

FoodRunners.org

Photo courtesy of Foodrunners.org

The mission of Food Runners is to help alleviate hunger in San Francisco to help prevent waste and to help create community. Food Runners is a California 501.C3 Corporation – with a Board of Directors and an Advisory Committee made up of concerned individuals from throughout our community.

Food Runners is currently delivering approximately 10 tons of food a week that would otherwise be thrown away. With help from our volunteer coordinator, our paid truck driver and people like you, we can provide enough food for 2,000 meals a day in San Francisco.

We recently volunteered with FoodRunners on the Divisadero/Grove Farmers Market route. It was raining cats, dogs & orangutans but that didn’t stop the market vendors from donating their produce & baked goods. Barely any room was left in our trunk space & back seat, as we piled in bags & bags of farm fresh produce, baguettes & mountains of baked goods. We’re definitely coming back.

Playworks.org

Image courtesy of Playworks.org

The Playworks Mission: To improve the health and well-being of children by increasing opportunities for physical activity and safe, meaningful play.

Playworks is a national nonprofit organization that supports learning by providing safe, healthy and inclusive play and physical activity to schools at recess and throughout the entire school day.

Playworks currently provides on-site program coordinators, or coaches, to 170 schools in 10 cities across the nation. We serve more than 70,000 students at low-income, urban schools every school day. If you don’t see us nearby, click here to learn how to bring Playworks to your city.

Children of Shelter

Photo courtesy of Children of Shelter's website

Children of Shelters’ mission is to provide for the educational and emotional needs of the estimated 4,000 children living in or being served by transitional shelters in San Francisco. As advocates of the children we serve, we are committed to addressing both their basic and more in-depth needs. By funding tutoring, activities that enhance self-esteem, and college tuition assistance, our grants support their academic achievement and character development. Ultimately, we believe education and self-esteem are keys to breaking the cycle of poverty for children.

COS raises funds to implement and underwrite programs for children in transition and in shelter, including:

• Summer camp
• College and secondary school tuition assistance
• Back-to-school clothing and educational materials
• One-on-one tutoring
• Cultural experiences, such as musicals, plays, sporting events and museums
• Empowerment opportunities with mentors and/or resources
• Support for talent and skills of individual children such as music lessons, sports, etc.
• Special holiday programs, picnics and other family events
• DrawBridges, an art program designed for therapy for youth

In addition, COS has awarded grants to fund more “macro” initiatives in 2008/9:

• The SF Unified School District’s Educational Empowerment Program, which helps homeless/transitional students with special needs be more quickly identified.
• Tuition assistance at both the elementary and college level. Currently, we fund scholarships at Star of the Sea, UCSB and Columbia University.

All info taken from:

Share Our Strength http://www.strength.org/

Food Runners http://foodrunners.org/

Playworks http://www.playworks.org/

Children of Shelter http://www.cos-sf.org/index2.php

See you at AT&T Park!

-Team Boobs4Food

Please join Team Boobs4Food as we support one of our founding members Cassandra Gee at the National Kidney Foundation Walk SF on Saturday May 8, 2010 10:00am – 12:30pm. Dogs, Kids, Strollers, Friends of Friends are all welcome!

National Kidney Foundation

The National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Walk is a non-competitive, fundraising walk focusing on education and prevention of kidney and urinary tract diseases, and highlighting the need for organ donation. The Kidney Walk presents an occasion for dialysis patients, organ transplant recipients, donor families, living donors, the medical and business communities, and the general public to celebrate life and create lasting community advocacy and long-term support for the Foundation’s mission.

Fight Kidney Disease

The NKF’s Kidney Walks are designed to help people understand the need for early detection of kidney disease. Over 355,000 Americans rely on a dialysis machine to keep them alive, and nearly 82,000 are on the waiting list for a lifesaving kidney transplant. Recent studies indicate that kidney disease is on the rise and as many as 26 million Americans have chronic kidney disease (CKD). Because symptoms may not appear until the kidneys are actually failing, many people do not take steps to protect the health of their kidneys.

FAST FACTS

• Chronic kidney disease affects 26 million Americans and millions more are at risk

• Kidney disease is common, harmful and treatable

• Risk factors include high blood pressure, diabetes and family history

• Early detection can slow the progression of kidney disease

• Once kidneys fail, patients need dialysis or a transplant to survive

• over 104,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant

Support Team Mama Says!

Follow @CassandraGee on Twitter

This is an exciting opportunity for us to work together to help people understand the need for early detection of kidney disease. In addition to raising funds for research and help for patients and their families, the Kidney Walk is a great way to bring the community together!

Please consider walking with us too! With your help, we will be able to make a difference in chronic kidney disease!

To join our team, please visit:

Team Mama Says! Facebook Event Page

The Official National Kidney Foundation Walk Team Mama Says! Page

Thank you from both of my kidneys and the bottom of my heart.

-Cassie & Ace

San Francisco Food Bank

In San Francisco, 150,000 people struggle each day to feed themselves and their families. Hunger manifests itself as a consistent lack of enough food to meet nutritional requirements. It can mean fewer meals each day and poor-quality food that is calorie-rich but nutrient-poor.

How can you help fight hunger in SF?

Join Boobs4Food SF as we return to the San Francisco Food Bank on Saturday April 24, 2010 from 12:30-3:30pm for Round 3 of some more hairnet action.

Duties in the past have included sorting fresh produce, packing frozen green beans & pasta, and assembling food boxes. Adults & Kids ages 8+ are welcome to participate, just be sure to state how many you’re bringing. This is a great way to get some of your volunteer hours logged before the end of the school year.

Date: Saturday, April 24, 2010 1230-330pm
Location: SF FOOD BANK – 900 Pennsylvania Ave at 23rd Street, San Francisco, CA

The organizations we support depend on our specific headcount so please let us know for sure if you’ll be able to attend. If your schedule changes, let us know as soon as possible.

Boobs4Food @ SF Food Bank 9/2009

For any additional questions, you may:

Email Us:  info[at]boobs4food.com

Facebook: Event Page

Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Boobs4Food.

ATTIRE: It’s important to dress in layers, as the temperature in the warehouse is often cool.  Because you’ll be helping to repack food, please wear casual and clean clothing, long pants, securely fastened jewelry, and comfortable (no open-toe) shoes.  Anyone wearing sandals, flip-flops, or any other shoe with an open toe will not be able to participate in the project.

PARKING INFORMATION:

You’re welcome to utilize the parking lot as agencies do not shop at this time. Additional street parking is free and abundant.

WHERE TO REPORT: We ask all volunteers to sign in upon arrival.

Please report to the south side of the building, entering through the central pedestrian door. Signs will direct you to the volunteer break room.

OUR VOLUNTEER DEPARTMENT STAFF: George Gracia, Robert Alvarez, Jeremy San Juan, Andy Breunig, Will Carpenter, and Nick Eitz, the Project Leaders, will be training your group and managing the food sorting projects.

MORE INFO: You may wish to visit SanFrancisco Food Bank’s web site (www.sffoodbank.org) or encourage others to do so if they’re interested in learning more about this wonderful organization.

DIRECTIONS to the SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK, 900 Pennsylvania Avenue (PLEASE NOTE: if you are using another website for directions, Cesar Chavez St may be called Army St.)

FROM HWY 80/580 SOUTH:

1. Take the Bay Bridge to San Francisco. Stay in the left lane.

2. Exit at 5th Street/Golden Gate Bridge, and go straight (slight left) onto Harrison Street.

3. Turn left on 6th Street.

4. Take 280 South (6th street dead ends into the on-ramp).

5. Exit at Cesar Chavez Street/25th, and immediately turn right on Pennsylvania Avenue.

6. Continue for less than one block on Pennsylvania. The Food Bank is on the left just before the intersection of Pennsylvania and 23rd Street.

FROM HWY 101 NORTH:

1. Exit at Vermont Street. Go straight through intersection onto Mariposa Street.

2. Turn right on Pennsylvania Avenue, traveling until you reach 23rd Street. The Food Bank is on the right.

Note: If coming from the airport or other locations south of the city, exit from 101 North onto 280 North and follow the directions below.

FROM HWY 280 NORTH:

1. Exit at Cesar Chavez Street.

2. Go straight through Cesar Chavez Street intersection onto Pennsylvania Avenue.

3. Continue until just before you reach 23rd Street. The Food Bank is on the left.

FROM HWY 280 SOUTH:

1. Exit at Cesar Chavez Street/25th, and immediately turn right on Pennsylvania Ave.

2. Continue until you reach 23rd Street. The Food Bank is on the left.

FROM DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO (Surface Streets):

1. Travel south on 4th Street until it intersects 3rd Street.

2. Turn right on 3rd Street.

3. Continue on 3rd Street until it intersects 23rd Street.

4. Turn right on 23rd Street.

5. Continue on 23rd Street until it dead-ends into Pennsylvania Avenue. The Food Bank is in front of you and slightly to the left.

Note: An alternate route from downtown is to travel south on 6th Street until it dead ends into the 280 on-ramp, then follow the directions from 280 South as listed above.

USING MUNI TRANSPORTATION:

We strongly recommend using the Trip Planner on http://transit.511.org

Thank you. See you with your hairnet on!

-Team Boobs4Food