Pacific Gas & Electric is donating $250,000 to 38 California food banks, with the Second Harvest Food Bank of Silicon Valley receiving $18,700.
The Second Harvest Food Bank of Silicon Valley includes Mountain View partner organizations such as the Community Services Agency; the Mountain View Hispanic Seventh-day Adventist Church; St. Athanasius Distribution; the Mountain View Senior Center; Hope’s Corner; the Social Services Agency SCC; STAND4; Jamboree Housing and MOVE Mountain View.
Other recipients include the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank for $11,890; the Food Bank of Contra Costa & Solano for $13,920; the Alameda County Community Food Bank for $12,510; the Redwood Empire Food Bank for $5,460 and the Community Action of Napa Valley for $3,280.
The California Association of Food Banks will distribute the funds through its Better Together Giving Program.
“We are deeply grateful to our partner, PG&E, for the extraordinary donation and its leadership towards ending hunger in California,” said Stacia Levenfeld, CEO of California Association of Food Banks. “Before the shutdown, food banks were serving six million people a month. Now more than ever, food banks need the support of their communities. We invite other companies to contribute to CAFB’s Emergency Response Fund, which will be distributed across the state.”
