Food and Nutrition Programs

Groceries from a Food Bank

Groceries from a Food Bank

  • Emergency Food Information: If anyone is in need of food, they should call the Second Harvest Food Bank's Food Connection Hotline (in any language) at 800-984-3663 for a referral to a nearby location.

  • School Meal Locations: Second Harvest Silicon Valley manages a Google Document that lists school food locations in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Please check the document regularly for updates. 

For those with lower incomes, CalFresh provides monthly food benefits.

For those with lower incomes, CalFresh provides monthly food benefits.

CalFresh Program (SNAP)

This program may help you and your family buy food needed for good health.

Offer:

  • Provides monthly food benefits to individuals and families with low-income

  • Helps people buy nutritious foods for a better diet, stretching food budgets, and allowing individuals and families to afford nutritious food, including more fruit, vegetables and other healthy foods

  • Benefits depend on household size, countable income, and monthly expenses, such as housing and utilities

  • Benefits paid monthly on an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card

  • Usable for food purchases at any grocery store or farmers market that accepts EBT cards

Income Eligibility (Summary)

Eligibility (Summary)

Partial Income Guidelines for CalFresh

Partial Income Guidelines for CalFresh

You’ll qualify automatically* if you and/or members

of your household already get cash benefits from

other programs such as:

  • Public or General Assistance

  • Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

*See CalFresh site for full details.

Citizenship Guidelines:

  • US Citizen who meets other program guidelines

Legal immigrant, non-citizens who meet one of these may qualify:

  • lived legally in the US for 5 years or more

  • gets disability related assistance or benefits, no matter when U.S. was entered

  • children under the age of 18, no matter when the child entered the United States

To apply:

Contact Second Harvest to apply for Emergency Food Assistance

Contact Second Harvest to apply for Emergency Food Assistance

The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)

This program provides food and nutrition help at no cost. If you need emergency food assistance, have. limited income, and meet the program guidelines, you can pick up the food from your local food pantries or soup kitchens. Available foods vary but typically include canned fruits and vegetables, meat, chicken, fish, dried beans, pasta, rice, peanut butter, and more.

To apply, contact the CA offices of the USDA -> Emergency Food Assistance Program.

or
Second Harvest Food Bank of Silicon Valley
750 Curtner Avenue
San Jose
408-266-8866

Feeding America Network of Food Banks

This network of 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries and meal programs serve people in nearly every community. Meals and groceries are available to anyone who needs it without obligation, regardless of circumstance. It is free and confidential.

Millions of older adults visit their local food pantry or meal programs regularly to help keep themselves healthy and strong on a fixed income. Millions more visit in an emergency situation or when times are especially tight to help make ends meet.

Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

Call 1-800-984-3663
Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

or text GETFOOD to 1-408-455-5181

Nearby Food Pantry List

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