News

Empowerment Plan Distributes 1,000 EMPWR Sleeping Bag Coats Across United States on World Homeless Day

EP is teaming up with civic and community organizations in 10 cities across the nation to distribute 1,000 EMPWR sleeping bag coats to unhoused community members. Leading the charge in San Diego is the Lucky Duck Foundation....

Read more

Lucky Duck Foundation Announces “Shamrocks & Shipwrecks” Initiative

Program will publicly highlight political will and efficacy for addressing homelessness...

Read more

Lucky Duck Foundation Featured on Good Morning America’s “GMA3”

Good Morning America’s "GMA3"featured LDF's employment program which hires Salvation Army shelter residents to be food rescue route drivers. Feeding San Diego provides the food rescue routes and a vehicle, and the Lucky Duck Foundation provides funding to cover all wages, gas and maintenance....

Read more

Portland’s KOIN News Outlet Highlights LDF and ‘Cash for Trash’ as Homelessness Response Models to Learn From

"Portlanders can’t solely rely on City Hall. Budgets and well-intentioned plans, as well as mayors and city council members, come and go. Portland isn’t San Diego. But the city might learn from how the Lucky Duck Foundation is confronting homeless problems — involving local businesses and community leaders who are…...

Read more

Lucky Duck Foundation, Feeding San Diego & The Salvation Army collaboration has rescued 500,000 lbs. of food, and, all graduates are employed and still housed

The homeless employment collaboration between the Lucky Duck Foundation, The Salvation Army and Feeding San Diego has reached a milestone: more than 500,000 lbs. of food have been rescued and all graduates have secured full-time employment and are still housed....

Read more

Harold Reynolds, MLB Network & MLB Prospects Visit LDF Bridge Shelter

Harold Reynolds, MLB Network Analyst, 2-time MLB All-Star and 3-time Gold Glove Award Winner, toured LDF's bridge shelter with 10 MLB prospects while they were in San Diego for an MLB Draft Combine....

Read more

Lucky Duck Foundation named Official Charity Partner of the Carlsbad 5000

One of San Diego’s most iconic running traditions, the Carlsbad 5000 presented by National University, today announced a new partnership with the Lucky Duck Foundation, a local non-profit organization dedicated to alleviating the suffering of homelessness throughout the San Diego region....

Read more

LDF-Funded Triangle Project Featured on National News

The Triangle Project, a new incentivized trash cleanup pilot program funded by the Lucky Duck Foundation and organized by LDF volunteer and retired attorney Brian Trotier, has been featured on national news (AP, Newsweek) this week as well as by the Union-Tribune, FOX 5, NBC 7, KUSI, and more....

Read more

Padres Owner Peter Seidler and Businessman Dan Shea, both LDF Executive Committee Members, explain the state of homelessness in San Diego in a recent UT opinion piece

Tuesday Group co-founders Peter Seidler and Dan Shea shared their thoughts on homelessness in a recent Union Tribune opinion piece:...

Read more