We recycle food from all available sources in Los Angeles (hotels, restaurants, bakeries, grocery stores, produce markets, caterers, film studios, airlines), so as to provide ourselves with a continuing supply of the highest quality fresh food AT NO COST, while at the same time involving the community at large in what we do
Mission Statement
To feed the homeless and hungry of our community a hot, fresh, and nutritious meal every day, seven days a week, throughout the year. To do it in such a way as to give back to the people we serve a sense of their own dignity, and to restore their confidence in being able to resume their place in society with the rest of us, as productive citizens -- in short, to treat them like individual human beings in temporary distress, instead of as untouchables.
The Details
- Address 1040 N. La BreaLos Angeles, CA 90038
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Contact
- Ted Landreth
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Phone
- (323) 934-6620
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Fax
- (323) 934-6618
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Interest Area
- Crisis Support, Health & Medicine, Homeless & Housing, Hunger
Average Review 
8 reviews
8 reviewsWould you recommend Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition?
by nyvia w.
(December 26, 2011)
GWHFC where so very welcoming to myself and my friend. We where passing by and asked if we could be of help and we where immediatly welcomed with open arms.I would strongly suggest working with this organization- they are genuine people who really have invested relationships with many that they service.
by Lindy S.
(January 25, 2011)
Living across from Poinsettia Park is a nightmare. Transients from the food program sleep in the park, using needles and accosting people using the park. Where else is there such a program who is in such denial aobut the damage they are doing to residents?
by Kim H. from South Pasadena, CA
(February 22, 2009)
I currently volunteer for GWHFC and have heard wind of these complaints and have found that no one has ever stepped up to really claim them. I would highly suggest that perhaps the negative responder try and volunteer you could work with me. I am the Friday cook and usually I don’t have much help and the homeless people that I serve will step up to give me a hand.
Since you live in the area I am sure you are very aware that the line is getting longer and is becoming populated with the newly homeless and the working poor. I’m sure these people are quite thankful that we are there with a warm meal And I feel privileged to provide it to them.
The homeless people we feed are not beamed in by Scotty. They live on the streets of West Hollywood and whether we feed them or not they will still be there, so I would think that instead of complaining you might think about how you could fix the problem. In this economic climate you never know and Thank –G-d for Ted & Penny
by Beth G.
(December 27, 2009)
In response to one of your very negative reviews, I would like to inform the public that the GWHFC works hard to respect and respond to whatever requests the neighbors have made. The homeless on this food line do not go out and commit crimes after dinner. They help us clean up and go back to living on the streets. They are not criminals. Some of them are mentally ill. Some of them are addicts. Living on the streets is hard. They are courteous to the volunteers, appreciative of the food and human contact, and share with each other when there is little left to go around. If they were not fed and cared for, then they might go off, as would anyone, and commit crimes. But that is not the case. The GWHFC works hard to form a cooperative relationship with the businesses and residents near the corner on which the food line is held. It is a miraculous organization, working on a shoe string , to bring healthy food and kindness to those forgotten and less fortunate than most.
Beth Goode
by Paul L.
(November 24, 2008)
This organization is a bad neighbor. It treats the surrounding community with disdain and has refused to work with local residents.
Some of the homeless people who eat at the food coalition are drug addicts and/or mentally ill people. After they have dinner, they drift into the residential blocks nearby, and some commit illegal and even violent actions.
I live a few blocks away from the food coalition. We have tried to work with the organization to reduce these negative consequences, but it has treated us with disrespect, and has often refused to even talk to us.
They also don't coordinate their activities with homeless agencies working to actually get people off the streets. Instead, they seem more interested in enabling people to remain on the streets and keep on using.
The food coalition says that it is concerned with the dignity of its clients - but they disregard the dignity of people who live in our community.
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