The Berkeley Food Pantry, serving over 21,000 Berkeley and Albany residents annually, has been providing emergency food aid since 1969, when several members of the Berkeley Friends Church began buying canned food and distributing it to those in need.  The Food Pantry is still housed in the basement of the Friends Church at Cedar and Sacramento in Berkeley.

Sustainable Contra Costa‘s mission is to educate, connect, and inspire people to create and maintain sustainable communities.  SCOCO will be expanding the Community Resilience Challenge in the East Bay, a month-long regional challenge to empower and inspire individuals and groups to become more water, energy and food independent