Arlene Mercer, Founder, Food Finders

PHOTO by SCOTT JONES
“It all started when I was driving through Anaheim and noticed day after day the poverty all around me. I knew that I needed to do something about it,” recalls Arlene Mercer, founder of the non-profit organization Food Finders. Twenty years later, Food Finder provides 50,000 meals a [...]

Giving, it seems, is often only a yearly occurrence, a single surge of goodwill propelled mostly by the holidays. Local food banks that are dry during the other nine months of the year suddenly see a swell in supply that correlates precisely with the giving season and disappears as soon as it’s over. But in [...]

Doing good with Long Beach’s food philanthropists
Long Beach sprouted out of an agrarian dream, a pastoral fantasy of bean fields and beaches that sustained entire generations before the onset of the city’s industrial complex. But as happens with the immutable laws of progress, those plots all eventually disappeared, family farms and cultural traditions wiped out [...]

From a press release:
Food Finders, which has been honored by the City of Long Beach for its efforts to feed the poor by collecting food from local vendors to distribute to disadvantaged families and organizations throughout Long Beach and surrounding cities, needs our help. The organization also raises money for their cause through its used [...]