COVID-19

“The fear we witnessed the first two months of the pandemic was heart breaking. By the third month people were realizing they were not going to go hungry, and there was help to get through the tough times.”

During the pandemic, the Food Bank of Contra Costa & Solano pivoted their service to include drive-thru distributions, increase the […]

This week’s featured member food bank is the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County. Since March 2020, now a full year […]

“FAFI has helped us to have a consistent presence that has fostered trust in the farmworker community, by providing tailored services, critical information, & resources for COVID-19 and vaccination efforts.”

Food for People’s programs include a countywide network of food pantries, mobile produce distributions to the most rural areas of […]

“We’re really trying to target populations that we haven’t been directly serving in the past, so we’re serving the community as a whole and meeting the diverse population that we do have”

During 2020, North State Food Bank distributed almost 2 million pounds of food–or, more than 160,000 pounds of food a […]

Promising Practices In March 2020, as the state of California issued stay at home orders in response to the Coronavirus […]

Lessons Learned from the First Months of Operation In March 2020, as the state of California issued stay at home […]

Today, President Biden signed executive orders and the USDA confirmed several important policies that seek to mitigate hunger and take […]