Community Exchange Overview

Innovating Food Rescue & Redistribution

Hollywood Food Coalition’s Community Exchange is a free concierge food service aimed at providing small to medium-sized social service nonprofits the food they need, when they want it, so they can focus on their missions.

As a kitchen ourselves, we understand the struggle to find and acquire food in the right quantities and at the right time through the current food bank model. The Exchange is changing how all of that works. Our careful recipient intake and feedback process paired with our innovative food rescue data-tracking system, allows us to create a concierge model that works better for all recipients.

By the Numbers

Over the past year

100

Donors

26300 lbs

Food Rescued

8000

Recipients

Donate Food & Essentials
Receive Food for Your Nonprofit
Volunteer and Help Us Distribute Food
Videos
We’re telling the story of our donors, recipients, and volunteers in our video series.

Donate Food & Essentials

Businesses

We work with all types of businesses, including restaurants, grocery stores, and farms to offices and studios to ensure surplus food is put to great use! If you work at an organization with extra food, call us and we’ll turn it into meals for our community.

Your donation is fully protected from liability both federally (link) and state-wide (link) thanks to Good Samaritan laws.

To set up a donation email or call 323-347-7907. Also, feel free to drop food directly at The Exchange Monday-Friday from 9:00am-5:00pm. Our team will be thrilled to see you.

Individuals

We accept donations from individuals as long as it’s unopened and unexpired food.

Donate Food & Essentials

Essentials

The Exchange accepts some essentials and supplies, which we offer to our clients through our Community Wellness Program, and to our recipient organizations at The Exchange.

Learn More

Button: Learn More (link to donate Essentials page in Exchange)

Our Partners

Receive Food for Your Nonprofit

Revamping the Food Banking Model

We’re revamping the current food banking model to allow nonprofits that serve food to their clients to choose what and when they receive food donations. This allows organizations to plan ahead and avoid becoming overwhelmed with random food drop offs.

We take great care in learning about your organization, the populations you serve, the services you provide, and help set up a plan that works. Don’t wait – email us now!

Email Now! Learn More

Volunteer and Help Us Distribute Food

We move a lot of food in and out every day to make sure it feeds people across Los Angeles. It’s a fun yet challenging process that we can’t do without our wonderful volunteers!

You Can Choose How You’d Like to Help

We have opportunities ranging from “chill” – such as packaging food into shareable quantities – to a “fast-paced workout replacement” helping us move and store pallets of food around our facility.

Help with Intake, Sorting and Sharing

Our volunteers play an integral role throughout our intake, sorting, and sharing processes to ensure food we receive is efficiently distributed to our wonderful recipient agencies.

We want you to join our Exchange Volunteer Team!

VOLUNTEER FAQs

Videos

We’re telling the story of our donors, recipients, and volunteers in our video series. Keep up with what’s been happening and learn more about the wild world of rescuing food and sharing it with people in need. If you like videos, donate or receive food or volunteer and we’ll get you your 15 minutes of Insta fame.

Video Gallery: YouTube Feed