Drew Pomeranz
Philanthropy
San Diego Padres Foundation
The Padres Foundation is the primary source of funding for the club's outreach initiatives in the areas of Live, Learn, Play, Serve or children's health, education, fitness and youth baseball/softball. The Foundation raises funds through a number of programs in which fans can participate, including the 50/50 Raffle, Shirts Off Their Backs, Padres Foundation Garage Sale and many others.
The mission of Pedal the CauseSM is to provide critical funding for cancer research at Siteman Cancer Center and Siteman Kids at St. Louis Children’s Hospital through our annual cycling challenge. It is our hope that research funded by Pedal the Cause will ultimately lead to a cure for cancer.
A World Without Breast Cancer.
The Padres Volunteer Team, Padres Pedal the Cause and Susan G. Komen San Diego are teaming up with local grocery partner Albertsons/Vons through a collaborative effort to provide groceries to patients and families who are currently going through cancer treatment at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health and Rady Children's Hospital who are unable to access their needed groceries.
Frontline Foods (FLF) launched in March 2020 as a grassroots, volunteer-led response to the growing Covid pandemic — it’s purpose being to provide food to frontline workers from local restaurants. In a few short months, FLF grew to have 50+ chapters across the country, 500+ volunteers, and over $10 million of donated funds for local restaurant partners. FLF’s efforts aligned with World Central Kitchen’s (WCK) pandemic relief response — specifically the Restaurants for the People program. It was designed to keep restaurants up and running (along with their teams and purveyors), and to ensure those risking their health to care for their communities got fresh, nourishing meals. Recognizing this strong alignment, WCK partnered with FLF to scale nationally as a fiscal sponsor.