The San Diego Hunger Coalition, whose members include multiple Recognized Partners, worked together to increase access to CalFresh (SNAP) benefits, resulting in an additional 3,303 households and 5,496 low-income college students receiving CalFresh benefits. 

The County of San Diego, International Rescue Committee, The Karen Organization,  Daily Harvest Express and the  YMCA of San Diego County, collaborated with the San Diego Refugee Forum to organize the 2018 World Refugee Day hosting over 300 participants and celebrating the diversity of cultures and customs of the local refugee population. 

Annually, about 286,000 people attend programs and events offered at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, including free performances, museum exhibitions, educational classes and hands-on workshops for the community.

Poway OnStage is deeply committed to an extensive Arts in Education Initiative that serves nearly 5,000 students each year through a 21-year-old collaboration with the Poway Unified School District, most of whose schools are located within the City of San Diego, providing musical theater camps, in-school drama workshops, introduction to instruments and performing arts master classes. 

Mental Health Systems’ Courage to Call offered healthy fruits and vegetables to approximately 4,800 military service members, veterans and their families which would not be possible without the help of roughly 280 community volunteers that have donated over 900 hours of their time to support ongoing food distributions. 

Interfaith Community Services’ volunteers have contributed 47,077 volunteer hours (which is equal to a donation of $1,369,462) and offer various skill sets and life experiences to ensure thousands of people receive nutrition, employment, housing, behavioral health and other supportive services. 

YMCA of San Diego County’s Kinship Support Program annually partners with 2-1-1 San Diego and the County of San Diego to host free Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Relative Caregiver Symposiums throughout the year which served nearly 750 grandparents and other kinship families from all regions of the county. 

ProduceGood partnered with the City of Oceanside to harvest 8,000 pounds of citrus from 15 neighborhood orchards, providing over 24,000 servings of fruit to neighborhood feeding agencies and keeping 4 TONS of edible food from the landfill.

“We made some amazing connections (at the 2018 Live Well Advance). One example was a connection we made with Starbucks’ Social Impact Team. They were excited to learn about the work we are doing to provide vocational training, placement and support services for San Diego residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The sense of urgency to work collaboratively was so strong that we scheduled a follow up meeting with them for the following week and are currently working on creating a meaningful partnership to provide additional employment opportunities for San Diego residents.”

- Brian Garbark, Vice President of Community Engagement at Partnerships with Industry

“Town Square® is like Disneyland for seniors!” “I cannot tell you how thankful and pleased we are!! It has literally been life changing having her at Town Square®!” “My dad spent some time there this week and he seemed so much more alive!” “We are so grateful for the kindness, support and compassion you have shown our family as we move further into our journey with Alzheimer’s!”

– Family members of participants in The George G. Glenner Alzheimer’s Family Center’s first-of-its-kind, immersive 1950’s reminiscence therapy-focused environment for participants with dementia.