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# Homeless get nutritional meals through donation
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/homeless-get-nutritional-meals-through-donation/
- Published: 2003-01-04T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T01:16:12.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Community, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless

*By Daily Press staff*

The S. Mark Taper Foundation recently granted St. Joseph Center’s Bread & Roses Café and Family Center Food Pantry $140,000 to increase the nutritional value of meals served and grocery bags distributed to working poor and homeless individuals and families on the Westside of Los Angeles.

Last year, the Bread and Roses Café served more than 24,000 hot meals to homeless men, women, and children. Poverty-level families received 16,500 bags of groceries through the Food Pantry.

“With the support of the S. Mark Taper Foundation, clients will now have access to a greater amount of fruits and vegetables, canned protein sources, eggs and dairy products — items that are not often donated in large quantities,” said Rhonda Meister, the center’s executive director. “The center’s food services often serve as the point of entry for clients into long term services such as case management that helps them to progress toward self-sufficiency.”

The S. Mark Taper Foundation, founded in 1989, is a private family foundation dedicated to enhancing the quality of people’s lives by supporting nonprofit organizations and their work in local communities.

In 2001-2002, St. Joseph Center, a nonprofit social service agency founded in 1976, served 7,500 adults and children through 11 programs that include emergency services, case management, educational activities, job training, child care and housing assistance.

For more information, call (310) 396-6468 ext. 325, or visit www.stjosephctr.org.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 4, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/010403.pdf?ref=smdp.com)