Helping Others

Donations to aid the homeless and provide mental health and substance abuse treatment at Father Joe’s Villages will be matched up to $100,000 this week thanks to an anonymous donor, officials said Monday.

NBC 7 is partnering with Feeding San Diego for their Spread Love San Diego Campaign. The goal this month is to support the hard-hit hospitality industry while providing for locals in need. NBC 7’s Lauren Coronado has more.

To help a vulnerable population combat isolation, one group of students has been making sure to keep in contact with them throughout the pandemic, forming some pretty remarkable friendships along the way as well.

Graduate students at the University of San Diego have taken part of a heartwarming program in which they volunteer their time to make wellness calls to seniors.

Distance learning has been a challenge for households that can’t afford the technology it required. In order to help those students, a monthlong computer drive is being held.

Food insecure households are receiving a bit of extra support after a pilot program was established to provide free meals to people in need. NBC 7’s Ashley Matthews speaks with one fisherman involved in the program.

Community members — doubled by a donation match by the Ford Motor Company Fund on gifts up to $25,000 — raised thousands and thousands of dollars on Friday’s Day of Giving hosted by NBC 7 and Telemundo 20, reports NBC 7’s Lauren Coronado.

Feeding San Diego is making sure children don’t have to go hungry with its Fuel for Summer program. NBC 7’s Lauren Coronado has more.

One in four San Diego County children are at risk of going hungry during summer break, but Feeding San Diego is doing all it can with its Fuel for Summer program to make sure that doesn’t happen.

Feeding San Diego is making sure children don’t have to go hungry with its Fuel for Summer program.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused more food insecurity for local families and to help combat that, the Fuel for Summer campaign aims to feed those in need.

NBC 7’s Ashley Matthews shares one non-profit organization’s efforts to help senior citizens amid the coronavirus pandemic.

NBC 7’s Mark Mullen has more details on the the extraordinary San Diegan who is helping those affected by the pandemic.

A San Marcos restaurant owner has teamed up with Stay Home SD to help deliver groceries to seniors. NBC 7’s Mark Mullen has more.

The owner of Players Sports Bar and Grill may be losing the majority of his business from the “stay at home” order, but his attention is elsewhere — on helping a non-profit serving seniors.

The frontman of Fishwife and Ghetto Blaster has been helping family, friends and strangers out with donations and deliveries during the pandemic.