Please make a tax-deductible donation! Click the PayPal link below or mail a check made out to Leah's Pantry to P.O. Box 29554, San Francisco, CA 94129 (mailing avoids all processing fees!)

Donations support all of our programs. They bring Food Smarts Workshops to agencies who would otherwise not have the funds to host them. They allow us to train agencies to run their own Food Smarts Workshops through our Training Program. Donations also do boring but absolutely essential things like pay for our insurance. Most importantly, they enable us to spend as much time and resources as we need to develop the most effective, culturally competent nutrition and cooking curriculum in the State of California.

Sometimes people ask about the impact their donation might make. Here are some measures:

• $250 is the registration fee charged to an agency to participate in our training program. Many agencies can't pay, but we let them come anyway. This fee covers not only the training itself, but also the printed curriculum materials for their first workshop as well as staff time for site visits, workshop coordination, and impact assessment. Each of our trainees is asked to run at least two Food Smarts Workshops per year. So, for $250, you are giving 30 individuals the opportunity to participate in one of our six-week workshops.

• $150 is the approximate cost of one adult attending a six-week workshop series. This cost includes staff time, food, printed materials, and follow up. During the six week workshop, this individual will learn basic cooking, nutrition, health information, and create a realistic and measurable individual nutrition goal. Almost 90% of our clients achieve their goals during the course of a workshop series.

• $40 usually covers the cost of food for one large Food Smarts Workshop. Often it will cover the cost of two weeks, since our partnerships with local Food Banks enable us to use Food Bank food in our workshop.

Aside from money, we're also in need of donated items - we can immediately use rice cookers, blenders, coffee grinders, knives, tupperware, paper and plastic goods, mixing bowls, and oven mitts. Please email Emily to make a donation at info@leahspantrysf.org.