by Jim Oswald | Jun 26, 2020 | Blog
Alfred is ready to play his electronic synthesizer. Every afternoon around 4 pm, the 75-year-old Castro resident brushes up on his creative skills – playing hits from some of the greats, like Prince, and remastering them with his own take. The result – a futuristic...
by Jim Oswald | Jun 25, 2020 | Blog
I can’t breathe. Those now-famous words continue to reverberate and resonate with all of us today and cause us to look at and acknowledge the raw side of racial inequality and its devastating effects in black and brown communities. Even before George...
by Marie J. Nedich | Jun 23, 2020 | Blog
This June, we celebrate the retirement of Robin Meese-Cruz after nearly 24 years at Meals on Wheels San Francisco. Since Robin joined as a Social Worker in 1996, she has seen the organization go through many changes and been instrumental in growing the department to...
by Jim Oswald | May 22, 2020 | Blog
Many of us don’t like to cook, but for Iona, cooking is especially difficult, even hazardous. “You’re standing over the stove and sometimes things just pop at you,” Iona explains, not mentioning – perhaps purposefully – the eye disease that has dogged her since...
by Jim Oswald | May 8, 2020 | Blog
Meals on Wheels CEO, Ashley McCumber, Joins Nonprofit Leaders to Discuss Food Insecurity in a COVID-19 World. Representatives from the California Association of Food Banks, St. Anthony’s, Second Harvest Food Bank of Silicon Valley, and San Francisco-Marin Food Bank....
by Jim Oswald | Apr 9, 2020 | Blog
Today, one of our drivers, Jim, shared a beautiful story with us. Our goal at Meals on Wheels is to ensure that homebound seniors are fed and kept safe, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic. One of the clients on his route –Tricia and her husband who both...
