13th Annual SF TURKEY DRIVE

The 2024 SF Turkey Drive was a big success! We collected 1,246 turkeys ready to prepare over 55,000 meals for the hungry in our community. THANK YOU DONORS AND WELL WISHERS FOR ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR!!!

November 23 & December 21, 2024

NEW: YOU SELECT THE BENEFICIARY OF YOUR DONATION:

San Francisco-Marin Food Bank  OR  St. Anthony Foundation

YES, IT'S BASICALLY TO FEED THE HUNGRY

This is a Holiday Neighborhood Initiative in collaboration with St. Emydius Church in the Ingleside District of San Francisco

Dear friends, neighbors, donors, parishioners and sponsors: 

My name is Pierre Smit and I started the SF Turkey Drive from my home on Merced Heights in San Francisco in 2012. Every year, for Thanksgiving and for Christmas, and in collaboration with St. Emydius Church, we collect turkeys or monetary donations to help feed the hungry. 100% of your donations will go directly to the non-profit you select from the following 2 organizations:
  1. The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank will receive all food* collected, and donations directed to SFMFB; CLICK HERE for details.
  2. The St. Anthony Foundation will receive all monetary donations directed to SAF; CLICK HERE for details. Note that St. Anthony Foundation will not accept donations of food.

* Food includes all turkeys and vegetables; plus hams in December.

The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank's mission is to end hunger in our own community. 
The St Anthony Foundation's mission is to feed, heal, shelter, clothe, lift the spirits of those in need.   

Yes, your gift is basically to feed the hungry.

So this year, we will continue helping those in basic need of food, as your gift of food is a gift of life.

Click HERE for ABC7 News Bay Area (Dec 2024) 

Click HERE for KPIX CBS News Report (Nov 2024)

Click HERE for KPIX CBS News Report (Nov 2022).

Click HERE for an ABC News Report (Nov 2021).

Click HERE for KPIX CBS News Report (Nov 2023)

Being the Executive Director of an organization that welcomes homeless and low-income seniors in the Tenderloin, I see first-hand the necessity of a meal for those who have so little to live with, and to live for. With what I witness there each day, I can attest this year's message: Yes, it's basically to feed the hungry. But your giving provides much more than food, it offers stability and hope for a better tomorrow.

Once more, I invite you to join this campaign. The SF Turkey Drive happens in November and in December to help our beneficiaries feed those in need during the Holidays and throughout the year. It may be your first time or your 10th time to join us. Just think of our impact...in the past 5 years, the SF Turkey Drive helped prepare over 280,000 meals. And yes, it's basically to feed the hungry. 

The SF Turkey Drive is looking forward to welcoming you at one of our drop-off sites on Nov 23 and Dec 21.  By-Mail or Online Giving can be made any time in November and December. 
Thanks for your continued support. Your gift of food is truly a gift of life.

Click HERE to select the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank as your SF Turkey Drive 2024 beneficiary.

Click HERE to select the St Anthony Foundation as your SF Turkey Drive 2024 beneficiary.

To volunteer with the SF Turkey Drive, please click HERE.

Patrick, Volunteer since 2013 (taped in 2020)

"I Like To Teach" by the McDonald family recorded in 2020 for the Thanksgiving Drive

Art, Donor since 2013 (recorded in 2020)

  The collaboration between   St. Anthony's and SF Turkey Drive at St. Emydius plays a very large role in our ability to meet the demand by donating more than 500 Turkeys and other much needed food each year.

Barry J Stenger, St Anthony's 2018 Exec. Director


 As a member of this neighborhood, I support and have assisted the SF Turkey Drive in its efforts to feed those in need.
Hunger is a real issue in our city and our neighborhood. I hope everyone can assist Mr. Smit to reach those in need.

Melissa Y.

      The SFTurkey Drive at  St. Emydius Church has been conducted under the leadership of Mr. Pierre Smit, for several years. This has and will be our way of helping to feed those less fortunate. I personally have been a supporter of St. Anthony's for several years as this organization has helped so many individuals and families.

Arthur M.






Picture: Faces at St. Anthony

Mailing Address                                                                                                          Contact: Pierre Smit

SF Turkey Drive                                                                                                            Email: SFPierre@aol.com

c/o St. Emydius Church                                                                                                Phone: 415-939-2410
286 Ashton Avenue                                                                 
San Francisco, CA 94112