OVERVIEW

Project Open Hand’s mission is to improve health outcomes and quality of life by providing nutritious meals to the sick and vulnerable, caring for and educating our community. Project Open Hand was founded in 1985 by San Francisco resident Ruth Brinker. Early in the AIDS crisis, Ruth saw a need to provide nutritious, fresh “meals with love” to neighbors who were malnourished from AIDS. Over the years, our scope of services has grown; we continue to nourish people living with HIV/AIDS and have expanded to provide nutrition services to those battling critical illnesses, low-income older adults, and adults with disabilities in San Francisco, Alameda, and Contra Costa counties. Every day, we prepare 2,500 nutritious meals and provide 200 bags of healthy groceries to help sustain our clients, delivering meals and groceries to clients at home as well as serving daily hot meals to seniors in community settings. In fiscal year 2023, we served nearly 1 million meals to over 9,300 clients.