SAN JOSE, Calif. – The Quakes Foundation and The PG&E Corporation Foundation (PG&E Foundation), have donated a total of $200,000 for 50,000 meals to help fight food insecurity in 2024.
In honor of the Earthquakes’ 50th anniversary season, the club and The PG&E Foundation worked with 10 Bay Area organizations to distribute the meals. Food distribution was provided by Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen, Hunger at Home, Martha’s Kitchen, Alameda County Community Food Bank, Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale Community Services, Food Bank for Monterey County, Front Door Communities, Hope’s Corner and CityTeam.
This initiative stems from the Earthquakes’ Pledge 74 campaign, an organization-wide program that aims to combat food insecurity concerns in the Bay Area. Pledge 74 was named after the team’s founding in 1974 and carries with it a legacy of nearly 50 years of community service.
The 50,000 meals were divided into 5,000 meals per month in 2024. The Earthquakes and The PG&E Foundation partnered with a different organization for each of the 10 months to distribute the meals.
In 2025, both organizations have partnered up again, this time to donate 51,000 meals to combat food insecurity in the local community.
About the Quakes Foundation
The Quakes Foundation is the San Jose Earthquakes’ charitable arm, operating as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The Quakes Foundation promotes unity through sport. We strive to improve health and fitness outcomes for local youth and combat food insecurity in our community. Through the cultivation of the game of soccer, we create and facilitate programs that produce positive impact for children and families in these areas of focus throughout the Bay Area. For more information, visit www.sjearthquakes.com/community.
About The PG&E Corporation Foundation
The PG&E Corporation Foundation is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, separate from PG&E and sponsored by PG&E Corporation.
About Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen
Loaves & Fishes, since their start in 1980, has been providing hot and nutritious prepared meals, delivered and served to feed hungry families, children, seniors, veterans, students and disabled individuals in the Bay Area. Loaves & Fishes provides over 1.5 million meals each year throughout Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. For more information, visit www.loavesfishes.org.
About Hunger at Home
Founded in 2020, Hunger at Home, partners with local convention centers, hotels and sports stadiums to collect excess food and goods to distribute to the hungry and homeless in Silicon Valley. To date, Hunger at Home has donated 11 million meals locally and helped distribute much needed items like towels, blankets, kitchen items and hygiene kits. For more information, visit www.hungerathome.org.
About Martha’s Kitchen
Between its hot meal and grocery programs, Martha’s Kitchen provides nearly 250,000 meals each month. While it has called San Jose home since its founding in 1981, the organization feels called to provide food security to as many communities as possible. Martha’s Kitchen believes that food is a basic human right, not a luxury. It is vital that these communities have access to well-balanced meals, which include proper proteins, vegetables and carbohydrates. For more information, visit www.marthas-kitchen.org.
About Alameda County Community Food Bank
For over 35 years, Alameda County Community Food Bank has stood by their unwavering belief that food is a basic human right. They distribute millions of healthy meals every year, and are on the forefront of new approaches to ending hunger and poverty. For more information, visit https://www.accfb.org/
About Second Harvest of Silicon Valley
The Food Bank, Inc. of Santa Clara County was formed in 1974 by Economic and Social Opportunities and incorporated as a non-profit agency in 1979. In 1988, the San Mateo County Food Bank merged with The Food Bank, Inc. of Santa Clara County to become Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. In 1992, Second Harvest moved into a new 65,000-square-foot warehouse in San Jose that is now Curtner Center. In 1996, the Food Bank’s Peninsula Distribution Center (Bing Center) began serving San Mateo County in a newly renovated 22,000-square-foot warehouse in San Carlos. In 2012, Second Harvest opened Cypress Center in North San Jose, doubling its operations and providing a dedicated produce distribution facility. In 2019, the organization changed its name to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley and continues to serve all of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. For more information, visit https://www.shfb.org/
About Sunnyvale Community Services
Sunnyvale Community Services is there for their neighbors in their time of need. As rents go up and food prices skyrocket, the need is greater than ever in their own backyard. 98% of their clients have incomes under 200% of the poverty level. The ethnicities of their clients range from Hispanic to White to African American, Asian, Pacific Islander, and more. While children represent 22% of the population of Sunnyvale, they represent 35% of Sunnyvale Community Services’ clients. Seniors make up 13% of their client demographic. For more information, visit https://svcommunityservices.org/
About Food Bank for Monterey County
The Food Bank for Monterey County is working to end hunger and transform the health of their community through good nutrition. They are the largest, most comprehensive provider of emergency supplemental food in their community. The Food Bank serves as the central distribution ‘hub’ providing high-quality food, fresh produce, and educational and nutritional resources to over 160 local non-profit network members. For more information, visit https://foodbankformontereycounty.org/
About Front Door Communities
Front Door Communities began as a mission of the First Presbyterian Church of San Jose. In 2017, Front Door Communities incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Lifted Spirits and a morning Lunch Bag program continue to serve vulnerable men and women in downtown San Jose. Due to declining membership, First Presbyterian Church closed in June 2019. However, the mission of serving vulnerable members in their community continues at 81 N. 2nd Street in downtown San Jose, California. For more information, visit https://www.fdcsj.org/
About Hope’s Corner
Hope's Corner became an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2015. Hope's Corner began as a joint ministry of Mountain View Trinity and Los Altos United Methodist Churches. Their wonderful volunteers include members of many different faith communities, youth and adults from other service organizations and members of the community. For more information, visit https://www.hopes-corner.org/
About CityTeam
CityTeam Ministries was started in 1957 by Lester and Pauline Myers as a feeding program for homeless men in downtown San Jose. Four years later, the ministry - then known as the San Jose Rescue Mission - moved to a larger facility where it began providing shelter as well as meals to unhoused people. For more information, visit https://www.cityteam.org/
