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JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK NEWSLETTER AimLoan.com San Diego Blues Festival to Feature Los Lobos, Saturday, Sept. 10 Special Thanks Our gratitude goes to the following corporations, foundations and organizations for their generous support The Food Bank’s sixth annual San Diego received between December 2015 and February 2016. Blues Festival will be held on Saturday, FOOD FOR THOUGHT Sept. 10 from noon to 8 p.m. at the Embarcadero Marina Park North on the Businesses SPRING 2016 downtown San Diego waterfront, next to Seaport Village. Diamond ($50,000 or more) Bronze ($2,500 to $4,999) California Financial Services Association USAA Federal Savings Bank Bank of America Centennial Escrow, Inc. “After I get through The family-friendly event will feature ECG Management Consultants Duncan D. Hunter for Congress national and local blues acts on two Land Rover San Diego Freelance Sportfishing, Inc. paying my rent, water bill, stages. Grammy Award–winning rock Gold ($10,000 to $24,999) Network for Good Jake’s Del Mar utilities and medicine, I band, Los Lobos, will headline Saturday’s STI Agency, LLC Drive Shop Northrop Grumman McCormick & Wright line-up. Lamb & Barnosky, LLP Qualcomm Matching Gift Program OrderUp Pacific Beach really don’t have anything Sempra Employee Giving Network San Diego Unified Port District Outerwall Other performers at this year’s festival Stater Bros. Charities Sekisui Diagnostics Prairie Stone Investors left for food.” will include Bobby Rush, Nikki Hill, State Board of Equalization Employee Fund Realty Income Corporation Watermelon Slim, the Bey Paule Band Tribune Company Riverstone Resources, LLC with Wee Willie Walker, Chris Cain, and Silver ($5,000 to $9,999) Roberto’s Mexican Food, Inc. American AgCredit Big Jon Atkinson. The San Diego Chargers BAE Systems Copper ($1,000 to $2,499) ASM Affiliates, Inc. SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, Inc. Baker Electric Solar, Inc. The event will feature specialist food Barons Market Sharp Professional Nurses Network Lasik Vision Institute, LLC vendors, local craft beer and wine, along Bearcats Lessee LLC Embassy Sigma Alpha Epsilon The Patio Group with arts and crafts booths. Advance Suites Hotel Universal Spirit Center Wedbush tickets for the event are $20. VIP tickets Broadridge Matching Gift Program Wells Fargo Bank for Saturday are $150. And this year, Zenith Insurance Company Corporate Office Super VIP Tickets are $250 which includes an evening VIP Concert at the House of Foundations & Organizations Blues on Friday night before the festival. Children 12 and under are free of charge. Diamond ($50,000 or more) Silver ($5,000 to $9,999) Copper ($1,000.00 to $2,499.00) All proceeds from the event will help the Entertainment Industry Foundation The Hill Charitable Foundation Airman Memorial Chapel, Marine IN THIS ISSUE “I can’t get by on Social Security.” Food Bank fight hunger in San Diego County. The Melvin Garb Foundation The Gilbert J. Martin Foundation Corps Air Station On a sunny spring morning, Clara, 64, leans on her cane as she waits in line at the Food Bank’s Price Philanthropies Foundation The JP Martin Foundation American Federation of Page 4 emergency food pantry site in Mission Hills. Clara is a fixed-income senior citizen living on Bring your family and friends for a fun-filled weekend of music by the scenic San Diego S. Mark Taper Foundation Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman Foundation Government Employees Food Bank Unveils Social Security. She waits with others in line to receive groceries from the emergency pantry to downtown waterfront, and help the Food Bank give hunger the blues. Wells Fargo Foundation San Diego Kiwanis Club Foundation, Inc. CarMax Foundation New Recycling & have enough food to get through to the end of the month. The USAA Foundation Christ Episcopal Church Thrift Shop Composting Center The Food Bank is encouraging all event-goers to bring two cans of food. For more Platinum ($25,000 to $49,999) Circle’s Edge Disc Golf Clara lives in Linda Vista and has been receiving assistance from the Food Bank for the past year. information and to purchase tickets online visit: SDBluesFest.com Sempra Energy Foundation Bronze ($2,500 to $4,999) Kirby Family Foundation “After I retired, I realized that I couldn’t get by on Social Security. One time, I just didn’t have Chaplain’s Department, Naval Station Peterson Charitable Foundation anything. No money or food, so I went to the Food Bank and started getting help,” explains Clara. Gold ($10,000 to $24,999) Religious Offerings Fund Religious Offering Fund, Naval Air Paul Bechtner Foundation Combined Federal Campaign Station North Island “Before I retired I did almost every job out there. I grew up in the Bakersfield area, and I did City of Chula Vista The Country Friends Food Bank CEO Visits Washington D.C. San Diego Aces Disc Golf Club a lot of farm work with my family as a child. We picked cotton, chopped cotton. We grew County of San Diego Ellen Browning Scripps Elementary School San Diego County Office of Education In March, Food Bank CEO Jim Floros attended the annual National to discuss anti-hunger legislation and federal funding for USDA watermelons. I worked in the cotton gin too, stomping the cotton. We picked the grapes in the DPR Foundation Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. Sunroad Community Foundation Page 5 Anti-Hunger Policy Conference in Washington D. C., hosted by commodity programs administered by the Food Bank. During Floros’ field. As a child, over the summer we did all the field work to pay for our school clothes. My Philip E. Fess Family Foundation Kappa Sigma Fraternity The Sutherland Foundation San Diego the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC). Floros’ visit included visit to Washington D.C., he met with Rep. Susan Davis, Rep. Duncan daddy also taught me how to grow and sell vegetables for money,” says Clara. S.L. Gimbel Foundation The Morrison & Foerster Foundation Tierrasanta Junior Women’s Club Blues Festival 2016 legislative meetings with the San Diego Congressional delegation Hunter, Rep. Scott Peters, Rep. Juan Vargas, and Rep. Darrell Issa. Davis Love III Foundation, Inc. The Wilson B. Sexton Foundation United Way of San Diego County San Diego Indian American Society “I moved to San Diego in 1986, and I have been here ever since. I worked in food service in United Way Silicon Valley cafeterias. I worked at the Navy base at 32nd Street as a dietitian and cooked meals in the San Diego State University, Warren-Neely Foundation Associated Students cafeterias and in the military hospital. We did meal plans, and I prepared the food there. Before The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & that, I worked in the cafeterias in the school system cooking and serving the food to the kids in Rosati Foundation elementary and junior high schools. I also worked in home healthcare, taking care of people in their homes. I did a lot of jobs in my life,” explains Clara. Join the Food Bank’s Legacy Circle As a Food Bank supporter, you have made supporting people in need in San Diego County a priority in your lifetime. Continue that “After I retired, I realized that I couldn’t get by on Social Security. I didn’t have any money left legacy with a gift in your will or estate plans that will provide nutritious food to hungry San Diegans for years to come. Join the Food over after I paid my bills, so I went to the Food Bank and started getting help.” Congressman Bank’s Legacy Circle and put the next generation on the path to success by providing the nutritious food they need to learn, grow and Congressman Congressman Congresswoman Congressman Scott Peters thrive. For more information visit: “I have children and grandchildren. My son helps me as much as he can, but I don’t want to be Darrell Issa Juan Vargas Susan Davis Duncan Hunter a burden on them. They are trying to get by themselves and look after their children. The food SanDiegoFoodBank.org/Legacy or contact Liz Sheahan 858-863-5129 I get from the Food Bank helps me to get by,” explains Clara. continued on page 3 www.sandiegofoodbank.org 5 6 15-SDFCA-0516-N Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank 9850 Distribution Avenue Expanding Our Footprint to “I just don’t have enough to live on.” Please Support Our School’s Out, Hunger’s San Diego, CA 92121 858-527-1419 Feed More in North County continued from page 1 Not Summer Food Drive, June 1 – 30 www.sandiegofoodbank.org Greetings! Board of Directors “After all of my bills, I only have $20 left over to buy food for the David Bejarano, Chief of Police, City of Chula Vista As many of you know, we acquired the North County Food whole month. I just don’t have anything. I’m in Section 8 housing, During summer vacation, children who live in poverty stop but even though the rent is cheaper, with utilities, medicine and the Harvey C. Berger, Partner, Pope, Berger & Williams, LLC Bank in October, just before the holidays. receiving free meals at school and face hunger at home. water bill it still comes out the same. I just don’t have enough to Steve Bernstein – Chairman Business Banking President, Wells Fargo The acquisition has more than doubled our footprint in live on. The Food Bank helps so much. The food I get from the Food Often their parents work in low-wage jobs or they are North County and added an additional 77 nonprofit partner Bank gets me through the month.” Corrine Brindley unemployed, and over the summer months, these families are Corporate Vice President, State Affairs agencies – bringing the total number of nonprofits we serve forced to turn to the Food Bank to help feed their children.