This year's Holiday Drive will benefit the following organizations:
FOOD PROGRAMS:
Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank
The Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank and our North County Food Bank chapter comprise the largest hunger-relief organization in San Diego County. Last year, the Food Bank distributed 28 million pounds of food, and the Food Bank serves, on average, 350,000 people per month in San Diego County.
Through our North County Food Bank chapter and by partnering with nearly 500 nonprofit partners with feeding programs, the Food Bank provides nutritious food to individuals and families in need in communities throughout San Diego County.
The mission of the Triton Food Pantry is to provide a discreet service to UCSD students in need of food. Our goals are to ensure that every student has enough energy to get through the day and that no student should give up a single meal for any reason. We aim to build a network of food resources and awareness about food insecurity so that every UCSD student has nutritious fuel to achieve academic success.
A service of the Associated Students, The Triton Food Pantry is managed by student pantry managers and interns who provide oversight to the daily operations of the food pantry. The operation is also supported by a set of student volunteers who sign up to help support. These managers and interns also develop programming around meal preparation.
HEALTH AND WELFARE:
Mother-Child-Adolescent HIV Program UCSD
UC San Diego Health offers excellent care to women, children, youth and young adults living with HIV.
Helping patients heal emotionally and physically from mild, severe and life-threatening burn injuries is a top commitment of the multidisciplinary burn center team at UC San Diego Health. With leading-edge treatments, advanced diagnostic and surgical techniques, and a comprehensive team approach to burn care, they are able to respond to even the most complex medical issues. The burn center is the only one in the region to be verified by the American College of Surgeons and American Burn Association as a level 1 pediatric and adult burn center. We care for all residents of San Diego and Imperial counties who have experienced major or minor burns and critical soft tissue conditions.
Each year, the burn unit team treats approximately 450 patients, including infants and children, and hundreds more as outpatients in the burn clinics.
NICU stands for newborn intensive care unit. This is a nursery in the hospital that provides around-the-clock care to sick or premature babies. UCSD has NICUs at Jacobs Medical Center in La Jolla and the Medical Center in Hillcrest.
Bannister House and La Jolla Family Home
At the Family Houses at UC San Diego Health, their mission is to provide a home away from home for families of patients undergoing critical or long-term care at UC San Diego Health. They are there to make a tough situation a little bit easier.
ORPHANGES AND FOSTER CARE
Voices for Children transforms the lives of abused, abandoned, or neglected children by providing them with trained, volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs). Voices for Children believes that every child deserves a safe and permanent home and, to that end, will provide a trained CASA volunteer to every abused, abandoned, or neglected child who needs one, and advocate to improve the lives of children in the foster care system. Thy provide the highest level training, supervision, and continuing education for volunteers in San Diego County and Riverside County who advocate for the best interests of foster children and provide vital information to judges; annually review and monitor the case files of every child in foster care in San Diego County; increase public awareness about the foster care system; and
advocate for legal policies and practices that enhance the quality of life for foster children.
Promises2Kids annually provides over 3,000 current and former foster youth in San Diego County with the tools, opportunities, and guidance they need to address the circumstances that brought them into foster care, overcome the difficulties of their past, and grow into healthy, happy and successful adults. Promises2Kids supports these children through our four core programs: Polinsky Children’s Center, Camp Connect, Guardian Scholars and Foster Funds.
Casa Hogar Rayito De Luz Y esperanza A.C.*
Casa Hogar Ryatio De Luz Y esperanza A.C.'s mission is to protect every child's life, which is priceless, and put the needs of the children above their own. The orphanage cares for children ages 2-18 years of age. These children are vulnerable, orphaned or abandoned. Casa Hogar Rayito De Luz Y esperanza A.C. strives to help their children by guiding them and supporting them with the basic needs such as housing, food and love.
*Note - due to an error in communication, the incorrect name of the orphanage was initially used on this website.
Gabriel House is a nonprofit rehabilitation center for children with disabilities who have been orphaned, abandoned, or whose families are unable to take care of them. They are located in Maneadero, Mexico, just a few miles south of Ensenada.
Donation Evidence
- Total Donated: $26,371
- Total Collected (less GoFundMe Fees): $25,518.55
- Total Dispersed as of 2/1/2021: $25,518.55
| $2000 + $500 to the Food Bank |  |
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| $2500 to the Food Pantry |  |
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| $2500 to Mother Child HIV Program |  |
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| $2500 to Burn Unit |  |
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| $2500 to the NICU |  |
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| $750 to La Jolla Family House |  |
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| $750 to Bannister House |  |
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| $1000 to Adopt a Family at either La Jolla or Bannister House |  |
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| $2500 to Voices for Children |  |
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| $2500 Donation to Promises2Kids |  |
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| $2500 to Gabriel House |  |
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$2500 to Casa Hogar Ryatio De Luz Y esperanza A.C. |
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| $518.55 Additional to Phone Bank |  |
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