Our Mission
To empower individuals and families experiencing food and housing insecurity with food literacy, life skills, and positive relationships. With our intentional community, we hope to inspire personal growth, independence, and balanced living.
Our Programs
Project Access Nourishment
PAN is an eight-week cooking course that teaches participants how to obtain and cook affordable, whether on a Cal-Fresh and/or limited budget.
Community Health, Eating, and Wellness
CHEW offers life skills related to nutrition literacy, food shopping and budgeting. It provides opportunities for the community to gather for activities around eating, health, wellness, and overall balanced living.
Gaia’s Gift
Gaia’s Gift is Bread Head’s food pantry for those in need, providing fresh produce and grocery items, as well as some prepared food stuffs for immediate use. Bread Head partners with local organizations, businesses, and donors to resource food to provide in Gaia’s Gift.
Covid 19 Impact
The impact of Covid-19 on our community members has been significant; with limited or restricted opportunity for social interactions that connect our clientele to others and offer a sense of community, these heightened stressors are more difficult to manage. Bread Head has pivoted all of our programs to respond to the virus and its impact.
We offer PAN and CHEW via remote and pre-taped video offerings to bridge community. Gaia’s Gift is implemented utilizing up to date safety precautions for Gaia’s Gift recipients and Bread Head team. We recognize that a post Covid-19 world will offer opportunity to conduct our programs both in person on site at our Venice location and/or surrounds, as well as to continue remote programming in order to reach a larger audience, we are looking forward to those not so far off days!
Our Impact
Through the pandemic, we have been hard at work to continue to serve our members. Since July we’ve had:
321
Repeat participants in our Gaia’s Gift grocery assistance program
3181
Total meals served
139
Repeat participants in our Yoga classes
8
Youth yoga events in coordination with Community Partners
Upcoming Events
Want to see what Bread Head events are coming up? Take a look at our events page!
Volunteer of the Month
Meet Sarah! “For 28 years, Sarah was a producer and publicity director for KCRW public radio, as well as a freelance arts producer for NPR. In 2020 she wrapped up an 8-year stint writing a weekly column about arts and culture for Santa Monica Daily Press. In 2006, she became a UC Master Gardener, Los Angeles County, and trained in 2011 as a Master Food Preserver. She is currently a member of the Kitchen Cabinet Advisory Board for Food Forward, a non-profit organization that rescues surplus produce to feed those in need in 8 Southern California counties. In the past 11 years, almost 120 million pounds have been recovered and provided annually to more than 2 million recipients through a network of 1800 partner agencies.”