The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank is in need of monetary donations before the end of the year. (Photo courtesy of San Francisco-Marin Food Bank)

Monetary donations are needed urgently at the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank this holiday season partly because of wildfires and power outages earlier in the year, according to a spokesman for the organization.

One-quarter of the food bank’s annual budget, or $4.2 million, is needed by Dec. 31. Donations have been fewer because many people donated to wildfire and power outage victims.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.