14th 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!!!

Let's get ready now for the 2025 SF Turkey Drive happening on the following dates:

November 22 & December 20, 2025

YOU SELECT THE BENEFICIARY/IES OF YOUR DONATION:

(1) San Francisco-Marin Food Bank

(2) St. Francis Living Room  

(3) St. Anthony Foundation

BE  THE  REASON  WE  FIGHT  HUNGER

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 3 organizations:
  1. San Francisco-Marin Food Bank: perishable food* collected, and donations directed to SFMFB; Click HERE for details.
  2. St. Francis Living Room: non-perishable food**, and donations directed to SFLR; Click HERE for more details.
  3. St. Anthony Foundation: monetary donations directed to SAF; Click HERE for details.

            * Perishable Food includes turkeys (preferably frozen) and fresh vegetables; plus hams in December.

            ** Non-Perishable Food includes peanut-butter, jam/jelly, oatmeal, coffee beans, tuna cans, etc.

Their Missions:

San Francisco-Marin Food Bank: to end hunger in our own community.

St. Francis Living Room: to offer a safe haven and a healthy breakfast to homeless & low-income seniors (60+) in San Francisco's Tenderloin.

St. Anthony Foundation: to feed, heal, shelter, clothe, lift the spirits of those in need.

Be The Reason We Fight Hunger

In 2025, we continue helping those in basic need of food, as your gift of food is their 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 the St Francis Living Room, 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, your gifts are simply to fight hunger...and it offers stability and hope for a better tomorrow.

Please join this 2025 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 14th time to join us. Just think of our impact...in the past 5 years, the SF Turkey Drive helped prepare over 300,000 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 Saturdays Nov 22 and Dec 20.  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 their gift of life.

Click HERE to select the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank as your SF Turkey Drive 2025 beneficiary.

Click HERE to select the St. Francis Living Room as your SF Turkey Drive 2025 beneficiary.

Click HERE to select the St. Anthony Foundation as your SF Turkey Drive 2025 beneficiary.

To volunteer at 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