Food drive urgent as middle class becomes ‘temporary poor’
- JFCS in the Media
San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, and San Mateo County Times
by Sean Maher
There is a flood of people in dire need of help for the first time in their lives, dubbed by some as the “new poor,” and they are swamping Bay Area food banks.
New clients at Jewish Family and Children’s Services, a nonprofit serving five Bay Area counties, have increased demand for its food services fourfold since the recession started.
Ramping up its efforts in turn, JFCS has enlisted about 1,000 volunteers — double that of previous years — to get word out about this year’s High Holiday Food Drive, a monthlong September effort to stock the nonprofit’s five food pantries, including an expanded one in San Mateo.
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Posted by Admin on September 5, 2010