The relationships we form with our neighbors are essential to why our work is so effective. Many of our seriously ill neighbors live alone and don't have regular visitors. That's why on our clients' birthdays, we take special care to deliver a beautifully decorated birthday cake 🎂 alongside their regular food delivery. Last year, 1,515 neighbors received a cake from Food & Friends on their special day with birthday wishes from our caring volunteers.
Food & Friends
Hospitals and Health Care
Washington, DC 3,052 followers
Delivering health and hope, one meal at a time.
About us
Established in 1988, Food & Friends is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that provides nutritionally tailored, home-delivered meals to people facing a life-challenging health crisis. We believe that food heals and each year we prepare and deliver nearly 1 million meals across 5,300 square miles to our neighbors – at no charge. We help our clients feel better, connect them to their community and empower them to manage their illnesses. Over 8,500 volunteers touch more than 2,800 lives annually. At Food & Friends, we are driven by a simple premise: anyone can get sick and everyone can help.
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http://www.foodandfriends.org
External link for Food & Friends
- Industry
- Hospitals and Health Care
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Washington, DC
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1988
- Specialties
- medically tailored meals, nutrition, medical nutrition therapy, home-delivered meals, food security, volunteerism, community building, meal delivery, HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, hospice, dietetics, public health, hunger, social determinant of health, community service, service learning, and corporate giving
Locations
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Primary
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219 Riggs Road NE
Washington, DC 20011, US
Employees at Food & Friends
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Carrie Stoltzfus
Executive Director | Food & Friends | Expertise in Health, Nutrition and Volunteer Driven Organizations
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George Bednar
Deputy Ex. Dir., Finance & Admin. at Food & Friends
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Buffy DeBreaux-Watts
Senior Philanthropy Officer @ Food & Friends
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Lisa Huffman
Director of Development, Philanthropic Partnerships at Food & Friends
Updates
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Did you know that 1,158 Food & Friends clients participated in nutrition assessments and counseling sessions in 2023? Every neighbor we serve has access to one-on-one counseling with one of our 5 registered dietitians, free of charge. Our Nutrition Services team helps clients discuss or change meal plans, learn about food safety, manage food-related side effects of medication or treatment, and counsel clients on health goals such as weight gain or loss, blood sugar or blood pressure management, and constipation management.
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Community Dietitian Matthew Walker, MS, RDN is back with a new episode of Nutrition in the Kitchen! Join Matt as he prepares two delicious grain bowls using ingredients our clients receive in their medically tailored grocery deliveries. 🌾 Grains are excellent sources of carbohydrates and fiber, and their versatility in the kitchen makes them the perfect staple for a fun, easy-to-prepare dish like a grain bowl.
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🌡️ Temperatures are rapidly rising across the DMV, and we urgently need your help raising $10,000 for our Summer Food Fund. During brutal heat waves like this, neighbors count on Food & Friends to provide home-delivered, medically tailored meals and groceries, without interruption. Thankfully, our drivers are on the road six days a week–in 100-degree heat, summer storms, and oppressive humidity–delivering essential nutrition straight to our neighbors’ front doors. By making a gift to our Summer Food Fund today, you will ensure neighbors receive the critical nutrition they need during this heat wave. ☀️ Support the Summer Food Fund now at https://lnkd.in/eTWB2hi4
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I am exceptionally proud to serve as a member of Food & Friends, Board of Directors, as we serve our community celebrate this incredible milestone.
Today, Food & Friends reached a historic milestone, delivering our 30 millionth meal to a neighbor living with a serious illness! This remarkable achievement is only possible because of the dedication of our volunteers and supporters. We delivered our first meals to neighbors in 1988, during the height of the AIDS crisis. During that first year, our meals were delivered by volunteers and donated by local restaurants. Every day, twenty dedicated volunteers distributed about fifteen meals to socially isolated neighbors diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. With your support, we've now expanded our reach to serve a diverse array of clients across a 6,172-square-mile area in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. In 2023 alone, with the help of 4,000 volunteers, Food & Friends prepared and delivered 1.9 million medically tailored meals to more than 5,500 individuals living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, heart and renal disease, and other serious illnesses.
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I am so very lucky to have the privilege to be a part of this amazing organization. From its early roots in the gay community - serving those with HIV/AIDS, and then on though the last 25 years, growing and expanding to serve the entire community... I am very proud of this organization, its perseverance, kindness and goodwill to all in our community. Here's to the next 30 million meals - all served with love.
Today, Food & Friends reached a historic milestone, delivering our 30 millionth meal to a neighbor living with a serious illness! This remarkable achievement is only possible because of the dedication of our volunteers and supporters. We delivered our first meals to neighbors in 1988, during the height of the AIDS crisis. During that first year, our meals were delivered by volunteers and donated by local restaurants. Every day, twenty dedicated volunteers distributed about fifteen meals to socially isolated neighbors diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. With your support, we've now expanded our reach to serve a diverse array of clients across a 6,172-square-mile area in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. In 2023 alone, with the help of 4,000 volunteers, Food & Friends prepared and delivered 1.9 million medically tailored meals to more than 5,500 individuals living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, heart and renal disease, and other serious illnesses.
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Food & Friends reposted this
What a wonderful milestone to celebrate!!🎉🎉I absolutely love volunteering with Food & Friends. It's such a worthy cause and the staff and other volunteers with whom I work are rockstars!!
Today, Food & Friends reached a historic milestone, delivering our 30 millionth meal to a neighbor living with a serious illness! This remarkable achievement is only possible because of the dedication of our volunteers and supporters. We delivered our first meals to neighbors in 1988, during the height of the AIDS crisis. During that first year, our meals were delivered by volunteers and donated by local restaurants. Every day, twenty dedicated volunteers distributed about fifteen meals to socially isolated neighbors diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. With your support, we've now expanded our reach to serve a diverse array of clients across a 6,172-square-mile area in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. In 2023 alone, with the help of 4,000 volunteers, Food & Friends prepared and delivered 1.9 million medically tailored meals to more than 5,500 individuals living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, heart and renal disease, and other serious illnesses.
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Food & Friends reposted this
I am proud to serve on the Food & Friends Board of Directors, where we serve our community to celebrate this incredible milestone. Hats off to the amazing staff. #foodismedicine #healthequity #publichealth
Today, Food & Friends reached a historic milestone, delivering our 30 millionth meal to a neighbor living with a serious illness! This remarkable achievement is only possible because of the dedication of our volunteers and supporters. We delivered our first meals to neighbors in 1988, during the height of the AIDS crisis. During that first year, our meals were delivered by volunteers and donated by local restaurants. Every day, twenty dedicated volunteers distributed about fifteen meals to socially isolated neighbors diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. With your support, we've now expanded our reach to serve a diverse array of clients across a 6,172-square-mile area in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. In 2023 alone, with the help of 4,000 volunteers, Food & Friends prepared and delivered 1.9 million medically tailored meals to more than 5,500 individuals living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, heart and renal disease, and other serious illnesses.
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Food & Friends reposted this
30 million meals! It is an honor to serve on the Board of this amazing organization. Thank you to all the volunteers and supporters who make it possible for us to provide medically tailored meals to so many of our neighbors battling life-challenging illnesses. Anyone can get sick and everyone can help!
Today, Food & Friends reached a historic milestone, delivering our 30 millionth meal to a neighbor living with a serious illness! This remarkable achievement is only possible because of the dedication of our volunteers and supporters. We delivered our first meals to neighbors in 1988, during the height of the AIDS crisis. During that first year, our meals were delivered by volunteers and donated by local restaurants. Every day, twenty dedicated volunteers distributed about fifteen meals to socially isolated neighbors diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. With your support, we've now expanded our reach to serve a diverse array of clients across a 6,172-square-mile area in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. In 2023 alone, with the help of 4,000 volunteers, Food & Friends prepared and delivered 1.9 million medically tailored meals to more than 5,500 individuals living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, heart and renal disease, and other serious illnesses.
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Executive Director | Food & Friends | Expertise in Health, Nutrition and Volunteer Driven Organizations
I'm proud of the difference Food & Friends makes in the lives of so many. Here's to the next 30 million meals!
Today, Food & Friends reached a historic milestone, delivering our 30 millionth meal to a neighbor living with a serious illness! This remarkable achievement is only possible because of the dedication of our volunteers and supporters. We delivered our first meals to neighbors in 1988, during the height of the AIDS crisis. During that first year, our meals were delivered by volunteers and donated by local restaurants. Every day, twenty dedicated volunteers distributed about fifteen meals to socially isolated neighbors diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. With your support, we've now expanded our reach to serve a diverse array of clients across a 6,172-square-mile area in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. In 2023 alone, with the help of 4,000 volunteers, Food & Friends prepared and delivered 1.9 million medically tailored meals to more than 5,500 individuals living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, heart and renal disease, and other serious illnesses.