San Francisco, Calif.  (October 21, 2025) – The San Francisco–Marin Food Bank has announced a new three-year commitment from Amazon, valued at $2.4 million, to support the Food Bank’s Home Delivered Groceries (HDG) Program through June 2028. The HDG program fills a critical gap in the food assistance landscape, ensuring that homebound seniors, people who have a disability, are pregnant, and others who cannot attend a pantry can still receive healthy groceries. The largest of its kind in the country, the HDG program makes over 3,400 deliveries a week through Amazon, enough for 2.6 million meals.

“We’re extremely grateful for the generous support Amazon has provided for our Home Delivered Groceries program,” said the Food Bank’s Executive Director Tanis Crosby. “In the wake of severe cuts to the social safety net, Amazon’s commitment to our mission matters now more than ever. It recognizes our ability to not only operate at scale to reach every corner of San Francisco and Marin with HDG, it helps to sustain our overall efforts to eliminate hunger and its root causes.”

Since the pandemic in 2020, Amazon’s Community Delivery program has been instrumental in delivering over 60 million meals to families to in the U.S. and the U.K to reduce hunger. Using the same powerful delivery network that serves millions of its customers daily, Amazon partners with food banks — at no cost — to directly deliver groceries to families struggling to put food on their tables.

“The impact of home delivery goes beyond convenience – research shows that it can save families on average $100 monthly in time and travel costs,” said Bettina Stix, Amazon’s global director of community impact. “By extending home delivery through 2028, we’re committing to continue using our delivery network to help ensure families have reliable access to nutritious meals.”

Amazon shared its commitment to HDG at its 2025 Delivering the Future event. Held at the Food Bank, the gathering focused on how innovation is furthering Amazon’s impact in the community. Attendees toured the Food Bank’s main warehouse, which operates nearly year around; 67 million pounds of food leaves the Food Bank’s warehouses every year, and almost 70% of what the Food Bank provides to participants is fresh produce. Learn more about Amazon’s Community Delivery program and its support of Home Delivered Groceries.

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ABOUT THE FOOD BANK
The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank’s mission is to end hunger in San Francisco and Marin counties. We envision a community free of the root causes of hunger, where everyone has access to nutritious food of their choosing and is uplifted by a network of support. Together with more than 300 community partners, we work to address hunger head-on through a coordinated network of neighborhood food pantries, CalFresh enrollment, home-delivered groceries, and policy and advocacy efforts. We work with our community to provide food for people facing hunger today while working to end the hunger of tomorrow. This fiscal year, we are serving 36,000 households per week. Nearly 70% of what we distribute is fresh fruits and vegetables. Visit sfmfoodbank.org to learn more.