Charitable Contribution to Assistance More Than 50 Regional Organizations; Extra PG&E Financing Supports Food Banks’ Emergency Situation Readiness
OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 18, 2025/ PRNewswire/– The PG&E Corporation Structure (The PG&E Structure) is supplying $ 1.12 million to regional food banks, tribal food banks and senior meal programs to assist feed the growing variety of people and households battling with food insecurity.
The PG&E Structure’s current contribution will offer the equivalent of roughly 3.13 million meals for people and households in requirement. The financing will support more than 50 food circulation companies representing 46 counties in Pacific Gas and Electric Business’s (PG&E) Northern and Central California service location.
Authorities with the California Association of Food Banks stated PG&E’s assistance is more crucial than ever.
” The California Association of Food Banks is extremely grateful for PG&E Corporation’s continuous collaboration in our objective to end appetite in California This assistance is specifically essential throughout these unsure times, with federal cuts to SNAP (CalFresh) at the very same time Medicaid and other essential programs’ financing is being minimized. Households will aim to food banks as a source of relief to guarantee they do not go without vital nutrition,” stated Stacia Levenfeld, CEO California Association of Food Banks.
The grants support comes throughout Cravings Action Month, an across the country effort to raise awareness about appetite in America and motivate action to fight it. According to the California Association of Food Banks, while California produces almost half of the country’s vegetables and fruits, more than one in 5 homeowners do not understand where their next meal will originate from. Neighborhoods of color face even greater levels of food insecurity.
” An increasing variety of households today are having a hard time to put food on their tables, and we are grateful to be able to assist. We take pride in our longstanding collaboration with regional food banks and meal circulation company. These community-based groups are an important safeguard for households, the senior, therefore numerous others in assisting to guarantee they are fed and can lead healthy lives,” stated Carla Peterman, Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, PG&E Corporation and Chair of The PG&E Corporation Structure Board.
Leslie Bacho, CEO of 2nd Harvest of Silicon Valley, stated regional food banks have actually ended up being an even crucial neighborhood resource for households.
” Today, we are currently supplying food help to 1 in 6 individuals in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties on a monthly basis. Assistance from partners like PG&E is more crucial than ever– their kindness this year will assist offer more than 148,000 meals, making sure households, kids and senior citizens have the healthy food all of us require to grow,” stated Bacho.
Grant quantities think about county hardship and joblessness levels, utilizing the California Department of Social Provider’ formula, to promote equity amongst counties with greater requirement.
Supporting Emergency Situation Readiness
In addition to the assistance for regional food banks throughout PG&E’s service location, the business has arrangements with 25 regional food banks in high fire-risk locations to offer food replacement throughout and approximately 3 days after a Public Security Power Shutoff (PSPS). These PSPS occasions might be called when dry, windy weather condition is anticipated, and PG&E might require to switch off power in particular locations to avoid wildfires and keep clients safe.
You can discover a food bank in your county here. Contact your regional food bank to discover if they have earnings constraints. Food is readily available why materials last.
Meals on Wheels provides meals to senior citizens registered in the program. Senior citizens who are registered and experience a PSPS will get an additional meal for each day of a PSPS interruption. You can register in Meals on Wheels in your location.
PG&E likewise opens Neighborhood Resource Centers throughout PSPS occasions to offer fundamental materials, charging stations and details to clients. Transport assistance and hotel lodgings and discount rates might likewise be readily available. You can discover more here and register for interruption signals.
About The PG&E Corporation Structure
The PG&E Corporation Structure is an independent 501( c)( 3) not-for-profit company, different from PG&E and sponsored by PG&E Corporation.
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Business, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation PCG, is a combined gas and electrical energy serving more than sixteen million individuals throughout 70,000 square miles in Northern and Central California For additional information, go to pge.com and pge.com/news
SOURCE PG&E Corporation