Community Based Organizations

Our Community Based Organizations (CBO) program pays restaurants to deliver meals to neighbors in need through distribution partnerships with long-serving community based organizations who have deep experience serving their own populations. Private donations and grants provide program funding to purchase the meals which are delivered by restaurants with support from volunteer drivers and Cruise Automation.

Through our CBO program, we partner with small businesses, long-serving community-based organizations and City agencies to provide income for workers and meals for neighbors in need. We actively work in partnership with a number of CBOs and community advocates to center the needs of the African American, Latinx, AAPI and LGBTQIA+ communities in San Francisco.

The CBO program was launched by SF New Deal on March 23, 2020 just days after Mayor Breed announced the first pandemic Shelter in Place Order.

In May 2021, we piloted a new meal support program, Mission Bay Bites, providing meal vouchers redeemable at the nearby SPARK Social food truck park to eligible Mission Bay residents.

Family Meal Program

Our Family Meal Program provides supplemental meal support to low-income families that have a child under the age of five. In partnership with the City of San Francisco’s Human Services Agency and local restaurants, we provide participating families with packaged meals on a bi-weekly basis.

To operate the Family Meal Program, we partner with community-based organizations (CBOs) that specifically work with under-resourced families. We facilitate engagement with local restaurants to provide substantial and well-balanced meals, delivered directly to CBO site locations or available for pickup from participating restaurants (via vouchers).

The Family Meal Program is a new pilot and is quickly expanding to support the needs of underserved families in neighborhoods across the city.

Community Eating

The Community Eating Program is a meal voucher program to link SRO residents with free meals from local restaurants, in order to supplement the City’s food security network by improving food access and security for Single Room Occupancy (SRO) residents in San Francisco.

In partnership with the City of San Francisco’s Human Services Agency and local restaurants, we provide participating individuals with two vouchers per week per individual to be redeemed at a designated participating restaurant partner.

Feed + Fuel

Feed + Fuel was an innovative public-private partnership that safeguarded the health of Chinatown seniors and families living in single room occupancies (SRO) and provided vital economic relief to Chinatown small businesses and their workers at the onset of COVID shelter in place. The program launched in April 2020 and was operated by Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC), Self-Help for the Elderly and SF New Deal. The original Feed + Fuel program served 122,000 meals to more than 1000 Chinatown residents over a 2.5 month period.

In January 2021, Feed + Fuel was relaunched by SF New Deal, the CCDC, and the City of San Francisco’s Human Services Agency (HSA). The collective effort reached 3,300 residents, provided 327,961 meals, disbursed $3,285,610 to 57 businesses, and ensured that the iconic and beloved Chinatown neighborhood was positioned for a swift recovery from the prolonged crises caused by COVID-19 and xenophobia. The program ended in June 2021.

Great Plates Delivered

Launched in May 2020, Great Plates Delivered was a state program created to deliver meals to homebound seniors and provide economic relief for restaurants. The program was administered locally by San Francisco’s Department of Disability and Aging Services (DAS).

As a service provider selected by the City, SF New Deal worked with local restaurants to provide home delivered meals to seniors 65 and older (or 60 and older with certain health conditions) across every district in the City. Meals were delivered by local courier services and volunteer drivers.

The program ended in July 2021. Over 14 months of service, we’re proud to have disbursed $12.7M, supporting 70 small businesses and delivering 1,631,071 meals through the Great Plates program.

Takeout Today

Our Takeout Today program supplements the City’s food security network by providing free and immediate, same-day food support for any San Franciscan in need of a meal. This pilot program is intended to provide an urgent hot meal to SF Residents who are not sure how they'll get their next meal.

Learn more about Takeout Today and participating neighborhoods here.

Congregate Housing Sites

In response to COVID-19, the City of San Francisco established a number of congregate housing sites to provide shelter and meals to people who are in quarantine or who were previously unhoused.

Through our Congregate Housing Sites program, SF New Deal restaurants provide culturally competent breakfast, lunch and dinner meals three times per day, seven days per week to 12 congregate sites.

The program was launched in May 2020 and is funded by the City of San Francisco’s Human Services Agency. Meals are delivered by participating restaurants and by Cruise Automation.

Mission Bay Bites

In May 2021, SF New Deal launched Mission Bay Bites, a new program in partnership with the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation which provided supplemental meal support to eligible Mission Bay residents.

Through Mission Bay Bites, meal vouchers were distributed to individuals and families and could be redeemed for high quality meals prepared by local food trucks at the nearby SPARK Social park.

The program ended in June 2021.