What We Do
TACO provides warm meals, snacks, water, mailing services, charging stations, social, medical, dental, legal services, showers and more to our neighbors in need.
Mail Services
Believe it or not, over 1300 people use our address as their own, which means we handle, on average, 180 packages and pieces of mail every day! Our clients receive phone bills, identification documents, social security checks, legal paperwork, insurance information, letters from home and items purchased online! Helping us sort and provide mail to clients is a great way to volunteer. If you can sing the alphabet, you're qualified!
Meals
It all started with hot soup, over thirty years ago, and solid, warm meals are still fundamental here. TACO earned a reputation for having great food and we're pretty proud of that. Thanks to support from San Diego Food Bank, Feeding San Diego, Restaurant Depot as well as numerous volunteers, our A-Rated kitchen serves over 600 delicious, healthy meals every week!
We help dozens of people each week find services they need, navigate tricky paperwork they're struggling with and, quite often, provide a shoulder to cry on. To learn more, click here.
For years, TACO has partnered with some excellent professional and educational organizations to provide vital health, dental and legal services to uninsured and impoverished individuals. To learn more, click here.
Clothing
Thanks to generous donors like you, every Wednesday, we open our clothing closet to help between 40-60 people get some fresh clothing. Our inventory is entirely donor-provided and we always need donations of mens' and womens' pants, shirts, socks, coats, hats and especially, shoes! Contact us or just drop off your donations during open office hours (M-F, 9-1)!
Showers
After a brief pause, and thanks to the generosity of Think Dignity, our shower program returns! Now, twice a month, we haul our very own custom shower-trailer onsite and provide over a hundred hot showers to our clients! Keeping clean is an important, but difficult chore when you're living on the streets and showers are hard to come by, so this is the return of an important service!