HG Food Bank
The city of Hawaiian Gardens celebrated its 50th anniversary and the Irving Moskowitz Foundation was there to participate in the festivities. Local residents, businesses, and many familiar faces were there to celebrate this fun and entertaining event.
The Hawaiian Gardens Food Bank functions to serve a community of over 1,700 families. Since it was first established in 1988, the Food Bank has received an estimated $9,381,536.27 worth of food from the Irving Moskowitz Foundation.
Serving over 1,400 families weekly with groceries and vouchers, The Irving Moskowitz Foundation distributes:
$242,153.27 worth of food from 2009 – 2012
Year to date since 1988 over $9,381,536.27 worth of food have been given
The Foundation also pays all operating expenses for the Food Bank. Each visitor to the Food Bank receives produce, grains, canned goods, juice, yogurt, tortillas, and bread. No needy resident of Hawaiian Gardens is turned away, and registered clients of The Food Bank also receive weekly vouchers for use at a local grocery store.
The Food Bank is truly a cooperative effort with forty percent of the food distributed donated by the LA regional Food Bank, and the remaining 60% purchased by the Foundation.
The Moskowitz Foundation is the primary supporter of this initiative, as Dr. Moskowitz says “I remember growing up hungry, but I cannot sit idly by and watch children in our community grow up without food to eat.” This initiative provides food to the hungry, as well as educational workshops, job development, computer classes and other important tasks.
