Expanding Again to Serve Growing Need

Demand is up almost 50% in the economic crisis. We’re back in Concord and expanding through partnering organizations to more sites and cities.

 The worsening economic crisis has ballooned demand for our services. Some of our sites experience up to 50% more clients. Contra Costa residents have been particularly hard hit, between staggering home foreclosures and job losses. People who never expected to need help are finding themselves having to choose between feeding their families and meeting other basic expenses. There’s nothing more basic than food! So L&FCC is growing again to serve the largest concentrations of hungry families.

We’re Back in Concord! Actually, we never fully left serving the city’s hungry, though we closed the St. Michael’s Church dining room. We’ve been delivering hot nutritious daily meals through a partner organization, Mental Health Consumer Concerns, at their Treat Boulevard site.
This is part of our new strategy: partnering with other organizations that serve the same people at their locations. This lets them concentrate on other services they do best, while L&FCC provides what we do best – Feeding the Hungry! It’s a win-win-win.
Over the summer L&FCC added three new partnering sites.

  • Mental Health Consumer Concerns – adding their Antioch site and continuing in Concord;
  • Monument Crisis Center – Concord expansion for seniors and children’s programs;
  • Fresh Start – adding their Walnut Creek site at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

Two additional sites are planned. One more key partner in Concord is in the works. We’re also planning for a major return to Pittsburg in 2010 with a full L&FCC Dining Room at the St. Vincent De Paul facility.
We are ever grateful to our long term L&FCC Dining Room site partners: First Baptist Church in Martinez, Crosspointe Family Church in Antioch, and St. Anthony’s Church in Oakley. We’ll be continuing to operate our programs there as usual.

Loaves and Fishes Distribution Map


OUR MEAL DISTRIBUTION PARTNERS:
CONCORD Mental Health Consumer Concerns 2975 Treat Blvd. Bldg. C
Monument Crisis Center 2350 Monument Blvd. Suite B
ANTIOCH Mental Health Consumer Concerns 2400 Sycamore Dr. Suite 30
WALNUT CREEK Fresh Start Walnut Creek 1924 Trinity Ave.