With dignity and respect, MEND’s mission is to meet immediate needs of individuals and families and increase their access to opportunities that strengthen their capacity to thrive.
By becoming a volunteer at MEND, you will have the opportunity to be part of a great organization that prides itself with being one of the best public service establishments in the San Fernando Valley. While you are here, you will spend time strengthening your skills or developing new ones in which will undoubtedly give you great pride and satisfaction in knowing that you, in some way, have made a person’s life a little easier.
MEND's Foodbank continues to be the major point of entry for our clients. By distributing over 2.7MM lbs. of food in 2019, the Foodbank empowered families throughout LA County to prepare 2,279,958 healthy meals in their homes. In addition to pre-filled boxes of nutritious self-stable food, meats, eggs and milk, the Foodbank also offers a no-cost bountiful farmers' market, Buen Provecho, where families can select the produce they need.
