Hey everyone! We will be volunteering at the San Francisco Food Bank on Saturday, March 18th from 9AM to 12PM. This event will be worth one volunteers credit. We need at least 15-20 people, so please sign up if you can!

We will be working in the main warehouse located at 900 Pennsylvania Avenue (Click to view map). The volunteer coordinator suggests dressing in layers because it gets quite chilly in that warehouse! Our main job will be to sort/organize food for distribution. Open-toed shoes are not allowed, which means NO FLIP FLOPS. =(
MUNI lines 15, 22, and 48 all have stops within walking distance to the warehouse. Here are some more directions (though I suggest you use Google or Mapquest to map out your exact route):

FROM HWY 80/580 SOUTH:
1. Take the Bay Bridge to San Francisco. Stay in the left lane.
Exit at 5th Street/Golden Gate Bridge, and go straight (slight left) onto Harrison Street.
3. Turn left on 6th Street.
4. Take 280 South (6th street dead ends into the on-ramp).
5. Exit at Cesar Chavez Street/25th, and immediately turn right on Pennsylvania Avenue.
6. Continue for less than one block on Pennsylvania. The Food Bank is on the left just before the intersection of Pennsylvania and 23rd Street.

FROM HWY 101 NORTH:
1. Exit at Vermont Street. Go straight through intersection onto Mariposa Street.
2. Turn right on Pennsylvania Avenue, traveling until you reach 23rd Street. The Food Bank is on the right.

Note: If coming from the airport or other locations south of the city, exit from 101 North onto 280 North and follow the directions below.

FROM HWY 280 NORTH:
1. Exit at Cesar Chavez Street.
2. Go straight through Cesar Chavez Street intersection onto Pennsylvania Avenue.
3. Continue until just before you reach 23rd Street. The Food Bank is on the left.

FROM HWY 280 SOUTH:
1. Exit at Cesar Chavez Street/25th, and immediately turn right on Pennsylvania Ave.
2. Continue until you reach 23rd Street. The Food Bank is on the left.

FROM DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO (Surface Streets):
1. Travel south on 4th Street until it intersects 3rd Street.
2. Turn right on 3rd Street.
3. Continue on 3rd Street until it intersects 23rd Street.
4. Turn right on 23rd Street.
5. Continue on 23rd Street until it dead-ends into Pennsylvania Avenue. The Food Bank is in front of you and slightly to the left.

Note: An alternate route from downtown is to travel south on 6th Street until it dead ends into the 280 on-ramp, then follow the directions from 280 South as listed above.

The San Francisco Food Bank works to end hunger in San Francisco. They provide donated and purchased food to over 450 non-profit agencies, enabling them to give nutritious meals or supplemental groceries to thousands of low-income families and individuals in our community. These agencies range in size and mission, from the city’s largest soup kitchens to smaller agencies such as after-school programs, AIDS service providers, battered women's shelters, child care centers, food pantries, health clinics, homeless shelters, residential programs for people in recovery or transition to independent living, senior lunch programs, and street outreach programs. They are the largest distributor of food to non-profit agencies in San Francisco; for many agencies, they are their only source of food. This year, they will distribute nearly 25 million pounds of food, or enough to provide 53,000 meals a day.

Please help out if you can!