Mission & Vision

Values

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.

Our vision is a city where everyone has food, community, and support.

We turn mission and vision into reality by doing a number of things.

We welcome people to dinner each night. We rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. We care for our immediate community through our wellness program. We build community with and through our volunteers and community partnerships.

Compassion
Treat every person with dignity and respect.

We strive to know the names and the stories of our guests and partners.
Responsiveness
Adapt quickly to the emerging challenges faced by our community.

We design our programs around the preferences and needs of the people we serve.
Quality
Maintain the highest standards.

We serve chef-prepared meals, providing options using the freshest rescued ingredients.
Consistency
Remain a trusted resource our community can count on.

We have never missed a day of service since our founding in 1987.
Sustainability
Aspire to make positive systemic change for our city and planet.

We divert millions of pounds of healthy food from landfills into the hands of people in need.

Our Community Dinner

Our Community Dinner serves over 90,000 nutritious, multi-course meals to low-income and food-insecure individuals in Hollywood, CA each year.

We see more people every day than any other social service provider in Hollywood. We are the only consistent nightly meal service between Santa Monica and Downtown Los Angeles.

Our dinner nourishes and replenishes energy and hope. We get to know our guests, build trust, and work to connect them with other agencies to access housing, psychological and medical services, and employment services.

To learn more about our Community Dinner, click here.

Our Community Exchange

Our Community Exchange serves the needs of vulnerable populations throughout Los Angeles County by ensuring partner nonprofit social service agencies have regular access to high-quality food to serve their communities.

We rescue and distribute over two million pounds of food each year and distribute it to our nonprofit partners. That means over a million meals each year are shared with those who otherwise would not be able to eat.

Who does this help? The unhoused, at-risk teens, veterans, students, those living with disabilities, domestic abuse survivors, low-income seniors, and anyone else who is struggling.

To learn more about our Community Exchange, click here.

Our Community Wellness

Food is only one part of wellness. Each night, as we serve our dinner, we engage with people who are often struggling profoundly with basic survival. If you can’t find a bathroom, you can’t shower, or you don’t have shoes, it is pretty hard to think about improving your life.

We begin by providing new clothes, shoes, blankets, laundry vouchers, hygiene items, and cold and hot weather gear.

We also bring medical and vision care with onsite UCLA mobile clinics.

We connect guests with showers, rent assistance programs, substance abuse programs, housing, and employment services.

To learn more about our Community Wellness, click here.