Uniting for Food Equity: Hollywood Food Coalition's Journey to a Better Community
HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION NOURISHES THE COMMUNITY and unites efforts to achieve food equity. Since 1987, the Community Dinner program has served free meals to unhoused and low-income neighbors every night of the year. Responding to the increasing need for food, HoFoCo serves an average of 250 meals daily—over 91,000 meals in 2023 alone. HoFoCo emphasizes nutritionally complete, restaurant-like meals, and the importance of choice, which they see as the first step in building trust with dinner guests.
HoFoCo collaborates with service providers through their Community Wellness program, providing on-site health and vision care (UCLA Mobile Clinics), housing navigation (Housing Works), ID document recovery (Project ID), substance use counseling (Community Health Project LA), and hygiene/clothing services (Project Ropa). In 2023, HFC connected over 400 dinner guests to additional services.
HoFoCo’s Community Exchange program rescues surplus food that would otherwise go to landfills and distributes it to a network of over 160 small nonprofits in LA. In 2023, HoFoCo rescued almost 2.6 million pounds of food from restaurants, local businesses, corporations and wholesalers.
For 32 of their 37 years, HoFoCo has been a fully volunteer-led organization. Your donation of time or money will go a long way in improving access to food and restoring dignity to our less fortunate neighbors.
| WEBSITE | http://www.hofoco.org |
| SERVICES PROVIDED | , Nonprofit, food drive, homelessness, mutual aid, community |
| MISSION STATEMENT | The mission of Hollywood Food Coalition is to nourish the community by rescuing and distributing food, preparing nightly meals, and uniting efforts to achieve food equity. |
| SERVICE AREAS |
Central Atwater Village • Baldwin Hills • Bel Air • Beverly Grove • Beverly Hills • Boyle Heights • Century City • Cheviot Hills • Chinatown • Commerce • Culver City • Dockweiler • Dodgertown • Downtown • East Hollywood • East Los Angeles • Echo Park • Edendale • Fairfax • Firestone Park • Gramercy Park • Griffith Park • Hancock Park • Hollywood • Hollywood Hills • Hyde Park • Inglewood • Jefferson Park • Koreatown • Ladera Heights • Larchmont Village • Leimert Park • Los Angeles • Los Feliz • Macarthur Park • Mid-Wilshire • Miracle Mile • Mount Olympus • Oakwood • Outpost Estates • Palms • Park Mesa Heights • Pico Heights • Pico-Robertson • Pico-Union • Rancho Park • Rimpau • Silver Lake • University Park • Vermont • Vermont Square • Vernon • View Park • Watts • West Adams • West Hollywood • Westlake • Westwood • Whitley Heights • Windsor Hills |
How You Can Pitch In
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Let us know about your favorite local business. We’ll donate $10 to Hollywood Food Coalition for each recommendation.
Find volunteer opportunities here.
Make a donation here.