In The Beginning
Formed in 2013, Serve-One, Inc. began as a California, public non-profit charity working in the Inland Empire. As the Lord lead us, we began serving the homeless and needy by providing pantry boxes each Sunday at the Vineyard Church in Corona, California. As the pantry grew, we started providing hot meals to those waiting in line, sometimes for 2 hours+. This to sharing a meal enabled us an opportunity to build relationships with those we served. The Lord again lead us to begin seeking out those that could not come to the pantry, so we built a completely self-contained mobile kitchen and began serving food throughout the I.E. and sometimes Orange County. As our kitchen grew, so did our list of volunteer Chefs. The talents of these culinary experts and a host of apprentices volunteers allowed us to prepare quality meals to our community. In 2015 we were given the opportunity to serve homeless Veterans through a program offered at March AFRB. We jumped at the chance and for the 3.5 years we have provided high quality meals once a week to 30-70 homeless heroes. Consequently, we began receiving larger donations of food than we could use, and with in a year we had distributed in excess of 120,000 lbs of food, over half of it meat and proteins, to other organizations with meal and pantry programs. Subsequently, we provided services that only Serve-One, Inc. offers, in support of organizations like The Riverside Department of Social Services and Sheriffs Dept.
For the last 10 years we have served thousands of meals. We have helped communities, responded to earthquakes, served several thousand heros’ both active duty and Veterans, supported our law enforcement and the local churches, distributed countless tons of food nationally and internationally.
Meet our CEO and Director
August Swanson Director and Officer (CEO) A former Vietnam combat pilot, and graduate of the prestigious Pepperdine University School of Business in Malibu, California, August currently owns “Warbird Connection” a unique aircraft brokerage which specializes in World War One (WWI), World War Two (WWII) and vintage aircraft.
As a leading strategic planning and business development professional, Mr. Swanson regularly consults with enterprises requiring marketing expertise, industry knowledge and management proficiency. August has been the primary corporate and strategic advisor of Mattix Capital Management, a.s. (Denmark/Czech Republic) since 2005 and continues to provide Mattix company management with strategic and industry expertise as well as due diligence pertaining to acquisitions and investments worldwide.
A native of Southern California, August is the former president and chief pilot of, the Orange County (20DB’s) Search and Rescue, a local disaster and response team. While there he managed the growth, training and deployment of rescue experts to California emergencies such as the Northridge earthquake. A trained and certified mountain rescue specialist and EMT, he contributes his voluntary efforts to medical and relief missions and the planning of community emergency response teams. As a voluntary pilot with “Wings of Faith Missionary Ministries”, August flies food, clothing and supplies to poverty stricken Native American reservations throughout the southwest United States. A passionate chef, he also prepares and serves meals to the homeless and less fortunate through the Inland Empire.
501(c)(3) Public Charity
EIN#-46-2264700