May is CalFresh Awareness Month! This is a guest post from Sienna Rohrer, Feeding San Diego’s CalFresh Manager. Launching a New Form of Outreach In January of this year, Feeding San Diego’s CalFresh team of four arrived at The Shoppes at Carlsbad, ready to pilot a designated “CalFresh Assistance” parking area at a Together Tour [...]
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. At Feeding San Diego, we recognize how much food insecurity affects mental health. The stress of worrying about your next meal can have massive effects on mental and physical health. As a result, the National Alliance of Mental Health (NAMI) identifies access to nutritious food as a "critical social [...]
Starting January 1, 2022, Senate Bill 1383 will go into effect and set an incredible precedent. Grocery stores, supermarkets, food service providers, food distributors, and wholesale food vendors will no longer be allowed to send perfectly edible food to the landfill. Instead, they must donate it to hunger relief organizations like Feeding San Diego. [...]
This is a guest post from Sienna Rohrer, Feeding San Diego’s CalFresh Manager On the afternoon of Sunday, August 15, I was browsing social media when a news notification flashed across the top of my screen: “Biden Administration Prompts Largest Permanent Increase in Food Stamps.” Although I spend much of my time living in [...]
Back in February, the Together Tour was just an idea. Our team thought: how can we do more to support our community during the pandemic? We envisioned a traveling series of food distributions that provide food to thousands of people in a few short hours. Six months later, the series of large-scale drive-through food [...]
In response to the strong winds and fire weather our county is currently experiencing, which have resulted in fires and power shutoffs by San Diego Gas & Electric that affect tens of thousands of East County residents, Feeding San Diego is increasing the amount of food at its mobile pantries that service the areas [...]
Starting September 30, 2020, boxes provided by Farmers to Families program to be distributed to families in need through school sites across the county Feeding San Diego has partnered with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to increase the amount of nutritious food distributed directly to high-need areas. This will be free of charge, [...]
As we approach the six-month mark of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the reality of the situation has settled in. This virus may be around for another 18-24 months and the economic implications will have long-term consequences. Understandably, the ongoing disruptive changes to work, school and daycare schedules, in addition to financial set-backs and lack of access to community support networks, are having a [...]
- By Lucy Loughridge, Student at St. Francis Parker In 1790, the first United States Census was taken nationwide. Since then, 22 federal censuses have been conducted, but this year marks a new change: the US Census Bureau has decided that the deadline for the 2020 Census responses be moved from October 31 to [...]
Last week, federal legislators introduced the HEALS Act, which leaves out crucial aid for federal nutrition programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Pandemic EBT. Feeding San Diego joins hunger-relief organizations across the country in calling for much-needed support for public assistance programs that help end hunger, as well as funding to [...]
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