School Snack Program
School Snack Program is returning for the 2024-2025 School Year! **(Updated Enrollment PDF)**
The Food Bank is very pleased to announce that our School Snack program was a great success this past school year! We served over a dozen schools and thousands of children ate our snacks. We look forward to helping them again in the coming years.
How it works: Schools will send a representative on Friday mornings to our warehouse at 310 Railroad Avenue in Grass Valley to select what snacks to bring back to their respective schools to distribute.
How to sign-up: A school administrator must review and sign all papers in the packet below. Paperwork must be either emailed to foodbankncca@gmail.com, mailed to 578 Sutton Way #187, Grass Valley, CA 95945, or delivered to our warehouse at 310 Railroad Avenue. Paperwork must be accepted and approved by The Food Bank before schools are allowed to pick up food.
Schools must re-apply each year they participate!
Click the button below to download the necessary paperwork
Summer Lunch Program
No paperwork or sign-up needed, just show up!
Children 2-18 must be present to receive a lunch
The 2024 summer lunch program goes from 06/10/24 to 08/02/24. Lunches are provided to children ages 2-18 years of age Monday through Friday at the following apartment locations and times. Children do not need to be resident of the apartment to receive a free lunch.
12:15pm-12:30pm: Oak Ridge, Grass Valley Terrace, Berryhill, Crown Point and Brunswick Common
12:45pm-1:00pm: Nevada Woods, Valley Commons, Cashin's Field, Courtyard at Penn Valley
FREED
FREED Center for Independent Living offers a variety of resources including a food delivery service twice a month to elderly, disabled, and/or homebound individuals in Nevada County. If you or someone you know is homebound and unable to attend our distributions, contact FREED by phone for more information on how to sign up (530-477-3333).
Dignity Health Home Delivery
This program offers four food deliveries over the course of sixty days for medically impacted people. To qualify you must have a referral to the program from Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital or a Care Coordinator. Please contact 211 for more information.
Cal-Fresh
CalFresh provides monthly food benefits for individuals and families with low-income who meet federal income eligibility rules and want to add to their budget to put healthy and nutritious food on the table. CalFresh benefits can help buy nutritious foods for a better diet. CalFresh benefits stretch food budgets, allowing individuals and families to afford nutritious food, including more fruit, vegetables and other healthy foods.
The program issues monthly benefits on an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card. Food may be purchased at most grocery stores or farmers market that accepts EBT cards. To learn more, visit their website.
Click here to apply online today.
Women, Infants, and children
Women, Infants, and Children, or WIC serves to safeguard the health of low-income pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women, infants, and children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk by providing nutritious foods to supplement diets, information on healthy eating including breastfeeding promotion and support, and referrals to health care.
To find out if you qualify and to learn more, visit their website.
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
We will be partnering with Pacific Gas & Electric Company to ensure that our community will get the nutritional help it needs during power outages.
Specific details of distribution dates and times will be available on our Facebook Page as they are decided.
We couldn't offer this support to our county without the generous aid of PG&E. We sincerely thank them for their kindness.
Emergency Preparedness
Listos California
This program aims to assist the elderly and disabled community in preparing for emergencies. Californians can now access resources to better protect themselves and their community before disaster strikes.
www.centerondisability.org/preparedness
For more information on how you and your family in Nevada County can be more prepared; go to https://www.mynevadacounty.com/2710/Ready
Official Website: https://www.listoscalifornia.org/
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