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That includes students with physical or mental disabilities that affect their ability to work, some students with children, working students and students who are not expecting to enroll in their next term. \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/13/CFF-COVID/student-exemptions-flyer-en.pdf\">See the California Department of Social Services list of permanent student exemptions for CalFresh (PDF).\u003c/a>[pullquote size='medium' align='right']Tip: If you’re a student already on CalFresh, you don’t need to do anything until your next recertification to keep your benefits for now.[/pullquote]This means that starting in July, many of those students who qualified for CalFresh during the pandemic under one of the temporary student exemptions will no longer qualify when they recertify. According to the California Department of Social Services (CDSS), the state body that administers CalFresh, if you were approved for CalFresh under one of the temporary student exemptions, you don’t need to do anything to keep your benefits until your next recertification. But to \u003cem>keep\u003c/em> those benefits, you’ll have to meet \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/13/CFF-COVID/student-exemptions-flyer-en.pdf\">one of the permanent student exemptions (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2 in 5 college students are still eligible for CalFresh under the new rules starting in July, “but awareness is a lot lower than that,” said Tran. “I would encourage everyone to apply. 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Reach out to your school’s CalFresh coordinator.[/pullquote]In an effort to increase student participation in CalFresh, county social services agencies are increasingly working with campuses to reach out directly to students who might be eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, California lawmakers passed AB 1326, which requires county human services agencies to have college campus liaisons like Tran who provide one-on-one support with students to fill out their CalFresh applications in person or online.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I missed the CalFresh deadline for college students. What now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you missed the CalFresh deadline for students, you may still have options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many California counties offer a 24/7 hotline for social programs such as CalFresh. 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We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. 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"content": "\u003cp>At the beginning of the pandemic, food banks were hit with two simultaneous surges: one, of need, as the economy got thrown into chaos, and two, of generosity, as millions found themselves suddenly out of work. Others who found themselves in fortunate circumstances gave money and donations to food banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the need has remained elevated, the generosity has trailed off, pushed out of mind by everything else going on in the world. According to the hunger-relief organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-blog/food-bank-response-covid-numbers\">Feeding America\u003c/a>, in 2020 food banks nationwide distributed 6 billion meals, and 4 out of 10 people visiting food banks were there for the first time. As a result of the pandemic, an estimated 42 million people faced hunger nationwide in 2021. With the cost of food rising, it all adds up to a frightening outlook for our region's food assistance organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Forum's Alexis Madrigal hosted a discussion on food insecurity and hunger in the Bay Area and about the outlook for 2023. Guests included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Regi Young\u003c/strong>, executive director of the Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong> Jim Oswald\u003c/strong>, director of marketing and communications with Meals on Wheels, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin\u003c/strong>, longtime hunger and food insecurity reporter\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexis Madrigal: What are the current trends right now that are really impacting food banks, not just here but across the country?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> I would say that for food banks across the country, we are seeing a lot of similar challenges. For the most part, high inflation is making food costs a lot higher for food banks no matter where you're at within the country. But along with that, we're still seeing record needs since the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, I would say that for a lot of food banks, what I'm hearing is that the need at the height of the pandemic is equal to what we are experiencing right now. And so the challenge of ensuring that everybody has a meal so that people are not going hungry within our community is even more challenging for food banks and their network of partners that they work with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And on the donation side of it, the big Silicon Valley food bank [Second Harvest] has seen donations fall by almost 40% since the height of the pandemic two years ago. Is that same thing happening in other food banks, and is it indicative of a wider trend?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> Yeah, I would say that's pretty consistent for us. Our costs have increased probably double from prior to the pandemic. But we are anticipating that we're going to see an 11% decrease in funding this fiscal year for us. And so it is a challenge, because we are not seeing the changes in need within our community. We're not seeing the changes in the number of people that are coming to the pantries and wanting food and the long lines that are present there. And so for us, it is critically important that we are still able to serve at the same rate that we were doing a year ago or two years ago. And the resources are not the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937354\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937354\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pre-packed meals in a fridge awaiting delivery.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dinners prepared by Meals on Wheels in the kitchen at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center at the corner of Embarcadero and Beale St. in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let's talk about the price of food right now, to give people a sense of the kind of the systemic problems that have been leading to this rise in the cost of staples, like eggs and chicken.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin:\u003c/strong> I think it's almost impossible to go to the grocery store right now and not notice the sky-high food prices. There are a couple of things at play here. One is that we are in a global food crisis right now, and there are a couple of contributing factors there like climate change and the ongoing war in Ukraine. These have impacted some of our staple crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, last summer we saw really intense heat waves in Europe. We saw drought in China. We saw extensive flooding in Pakistan that has impacted staple crops like rice and corn, for example. As for the war in Ukraine, it has significantly impacted the global wheat supply because Ukraine and Russia are both global exporters of wheat. One economist I talked to likened this conflict to a war between Saudi Arabia and Iran and how that would likely lead to an oil crisis, while in this case it's led to a wheat crisis. But at the same time, food companies have taken advantage of this moment and of this opportunity and are raising their prices even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So companies like Tyson, General Mills and Cargill are seeing record profits even amid all of these staple crop shortages. I talked to an economist, William Spriggs, who said this is kind of like price gouging. He compared it to going to Florida after a hurricane and selling bottled water for $20 a bottle. If you did that, you would get arrested because that is illegal. But we just don't have the legal infrastructure in place to handle price gouging at such a massive scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do these rising food prices weigh on individual people who are trying to make ends meet?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin:\u003c/strong> I just want to start out by saying that I am so grateful to the folks that I've talked to for my stories. I know it's an incredibly delicate issue. In my most recent piece that I wrote for Civil Eats, I spoke with a woman named Gilmer Dominguez who is a single mom living in LA with her son JP, who is on the autism spectrum and who has a really strict diet and isn't as flexible as others in terms of being able to substitute cheaper foods into his diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She receives monthly allotments through SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, otherwise known as food stamps. She is a refugee from El Salvador. She came here in the last few years seeking refuge. I spoke with her just a few weeks ago on the phone, and she receives about $400 or so a month through SNAP. But she just told me that it's simply not enough for her and her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told me a story about standing in line at the grocery store and watching as the cashier beeped each item that she was buying. And the total just kept rising and rising and rising. And she ended up just having a panic attack there in the grocery store line because of how overwhelming that experience is where she's just not used to seeing prices so high and her SNAP dollars don't go as far as they once did. She told me her SNAP allotment used to cover almost three weeks of groceries. It's intended to cover the month, but it used to cover about three weeks. Now it barely covers two. So she's really struggling to make ends meet. And I've talked to others who are in similar situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have you seen any changes in the different types of people who are availing themselves of these services at the Alameda County Community Food Bank since the pandemic hit?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> Absolutely. So the challenge of food insecurity was already a major issue prior to the pandemic. But what we ended up seeing was a large number of new recipients, first-time users of a food pantry or a food bank. That number began to rise dramatically during the pandemic and is still the case right now. We have a call center at the food bank, and about 30% of the callers calling for some form of food assistance are first-time users of food assistance. This challenge is already so difficult, and now we're seeing it expanded to a variety of different people that may have never thought they would be here. And these are folks out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937357\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937357\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A warehouse with shelves of food.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wholesale packages of canned food line the shelves at the Alameda County Community Food Bank, on Nov. 20, 2018. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you think that change is kind of permanent, unless we made an all-out effort to change the situation that existed even pre-pandemic?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> I do think there are some long-lasting effects that may be present if costs stay high, particularly for us in the Bay Area. The cost of living is just high in general. And so what we're seeing is a confluence of issues and really a heightened awareness of where to access food, even for those people who may have needed it but did not know where to go prior to the pandemic and prior to all the media coverage on food insecurity. I absolutely think there's a lot of things that we can do to mitigate this issue. In fact, I think that food insecurity could be eradicated in the Bay Area with the right political will and resources, because I feel like the money is there. But yeah, this will be a challenge that we are going to deal with for a long time if there's not some dramatic changes that occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> I know that there's different ways of calculating food insecurity, but by your best estimates at Alameda County Community Food Bank, how many people do you think are actually experiencing this in Alameda County and in the East Bay?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> Our estimate is that there are about 1 in 4 people that are dealing with some form of food insecurity within Alameda County. And this was 1 in 5 prior to the pandemic itself. And so about 25% of the population may need some form of this and may not know where their next meal is coming from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can you talk about the number of people aging in place? The pandemic put incredible strain on nursing homes and on other places where our elders live. Maybe more of them have decided to stay at home. What has that done for Meals on Wheels?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Oswald:\u003c/strong> It truly has increased. Our capacity was overflowing, as Regi said. We saw an increase in need as well at Meals on Wheels in San Francisco. Here's the reality: In San Francisco, by 2030, 30% of the population will be aged 60 and older. Nationwide, 12,000 Americans are turning 60 each day, and many of those seniors will need resources. Just before the pandemic, we were serving roughly 3,500 seniors a day who rely on us for home-delivered meals. That number skyrocketed in the first year of the pandemic, almost by about 200%. And that included partnering with the city and county of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meals on Wheels, San Francisco ultimately operate in what's called the isolation and quarantine hotline, so anyone of any age who was impacted by COVID called us and, partnering with the SF–Marin Food Bank, we prepared meals and delivered them out to people who could not get out and get food. The reality is these problems have always been there, accessibility and affordability. Many of our seniors, almost 72% of them that receive our meals, live on less than $1,000 a month here in San Francisco, which is really hard to fathom. I spoke with a really charming lady a number of years ago who said that after she pays her bills, her rent and everything, she had exactly maybe $100 left for the entire month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So imagine trying to purchase and get well-balanced meals that are healthy for you. She literally told me that sometimes she would just drink water to feel full. That's really powerful. We owe it to our communities to support them. And it starts, certainly, with funding. But it's much more than that. It's providing the resources down the line to be able to take care of people as they age in place.[aside postID=news_11897177 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS61678_GettyImages-1241546546-qut-1020x703.jpg']\u003cstrong>Does SNAP go far enough? It was my understanding that SNAP got a bump up during the pandemic. Is that going to go away, or is that permanent? What's the state of SNAP now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin:\u003c/strong> There were various pandemic relief programs in place over the past few years. Those bumps you were talking about, those were emergency allotments for SNAP that brought many households up to the maximum allotment levels. Those are still active in California. So CalFresh recipients should still be seeing those emergency allotments, while many other states have already phased those out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in the latest spending bill passed at the very end of 2022, just last month, Congress decided to end those emergency allotments and instead use that money to permanently fund a summer EBT (electronic benefits transfer) program, which is another food assistance program which would basically provide meals to qualifying students during the summer. So this is something that anti-hunger advocates are very excited about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is one of the biggest federal nutrition programs in 50 years. But there's mixed feelings, of course, with those emergency allotments from the pandemic being phased out and shifting that money over to this new program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>President Biden convened one of the first hunger conferences in 50 years. Have you seen any kind of tangible impact from what seems like an attempt at the federal level to focus more attention in aid on the issue of hunger in America?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> Since this was the second convening, we did see huge increases for really addressing food insecurity, like traces of SNAP increases in the farm bill and so forth. And so we are anticipating that there are going to be a lot of changes with hunger relief efforts from the federal level and with that passing on to the states themselves. I think for me, one of the things that we're really excited about is the opportunity for increases in things like SNAP itself, because I think it is the most successful hunger relief program in American history. And the more we're able to not try to supplement people's food and take away the choices that they may have but instead provide them the money to be able to get the food that they need for their health concerns and for their families, that's always going to be the better choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937360\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An elderly white woman sorts through canned food.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime volunteer Yvette Hash sorts shelf-stable food from the donation bins at Alameda County Community Food Bank to make meal boxes. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Talk to me about Alameda County and the kind of help people can get. And do you think it's adequate for the area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> You have to be able to show up where people are to make it as easy as possible for people to be able to sign up for SNAP itself. The pantry aspect of it is one component, but signing up people for SNAP is a major component for ensuring that people are not going hungry. When I think about Alameda County specifically, we have a lot of strengths. We have a community that's really settled in our social justice, we have a community that's very entrepreneurial by nature, but we also have a lot of challenges ahead of us. We're fortunate that we have a lot of partners. We have over 400 community partners in Alameda County to help support the food bank by allocating food directly out to people in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the challenge that we have is that the costs that people are seeing in the grocery stores are also the costs that we're experiencing as a food bank. But unlike a for-profit company, we're not able to pass on the cost of our foods to the consumers. Everything that we get, we're paying for and giving it out for free. And so the biggest challenge that we're going to have as a county, really as the Bay Area as a whole, is around cost in general — not only inflation, but the fact that the cost of living in the Bay Area is so expensive for folks. We have a resilient, brilliant community base that are receiving our food. One woman we spoke with was literally walking to a food distribution, packing the food and walking home with it so that she could save costs on her gas so that she can navigate to other places and go do work, go do other things that she needs in the course of saving on the food and on the gas, which was beneficial for her to be able to manage that household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so what we're going to continue to see is that people are going to come up with creative solutions to be able to put food on their tables and to meet their needs. But it should not be so hard. And so the things that we're thinking about with our partners is how do we ensure that we have the policies in place, that we have the political will, that we have the backing to make those choices a lot easier for our community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At the beginning of the pandemic, food banks were hit with two simultaneous surges: one, of need, as the economy got thrown into chaos, and two, of generosity, as millions found themselves suddenly out of work. Others who found themselves in fortunate circumstances gave money and donations to food banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the need has remained elevated, the generosity has trailed off, pushed out of mind by everything else going on in the world. According to the hunger-relief organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-blog/food-bank-response-covid-numbers\">Feeding America\u003c/a>, in 2020 food banks nationwide distributed 6 billion meals, and 4 out of 10 people visiting food banks were there for the first time. As a result of the pandemic, an estimated 42 million people faced hunger nationwide in 2021. With the cost of food rising, it all adds up to a frightening outlook for our region's food assistance organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Forum's Alexis Madrigal hosted a discussion on food insecurity and hunger in the Bay Area and about the outlook for 2023. Guests included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Regi Young\u003c/strong>, executive director of the Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong> Jim Oswald\u003c/strong>, director of marketing and communications with Meals on Wheels, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin\u003c/strong>, longtime hunger and food insecurity reporter\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexis Madrigal: What are the current trends right now that are really impacting food banks, not just here but across the country?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> I would say that for food banks across the country, we are seeing a lot of similar challenges. For the most part, high inflation is making food costs a lot higher for food banks no matter where you're at within the country. But along with that, we're still seeing record needs since the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, I would say that for a lot of food banks, what I'm hearing is that the need at the height of the pandemic is equal to what we are experiencing right now. And so the challenge of ensuring that everybody has a meal so that people are not going hungry within our community is even more challenging for food banks and their network of partners that they work with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And on the donation side of it, the big Silicon Valley food bank [Second Harvest] has seen donations fall by almost 40% since the height of the pandemic two years ago. Is that same thing happening in other food banks, and is it indicative of a wider trend?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> Yeah, I would say that's pretty consistent for us. Our costs have increased probably double from prior to the pandemic. But we are anticipating that we're going to see an 11% decrease in funding this fiscal year for us. And so it is a challenge, because we are not seeing the changes in need within our community. We're not seeing the changes in the number of people that are coming to the pantries and wanting food and the long lines that are present there. And so for us, it is critically important that we are still able to serve at the same rate that we were doing a year ago or two years ago. And the resources are not the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937354\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937354\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pre-packed meals in a fridge awaiting delivery.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS41018_030_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7939-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dinners prepared by Meals on Wheels in the kitchen at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center at the corner of Embarcadero and Beale St. in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let's talk about the price of food right now, to give people a sense of the kind of the systemic problems that have been leading to this rise in the cost of staples, like eggs and chicken.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin:\u003c/strong> I think it's almost impossible to go to the grocery store right now and not notice the sky-high food prices. There are a couple of things at play here. One is that we are in a global food crisis right now, and there are a couple of contributing factors there like climate change and the ongoing war in Ukraine. These have impacted some of our staple crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, last summer we saw really intense heat waves in Europe. We saw drought in China. We saw extensive flooding in Pakistan that has impacted staple crops like rice and corn, for example. As for the war in Ukraine, it has significantly impacted the global wheat supply because Ukraine and Russia are both global exporters of wheat. One economist I talked to likened this conflict to a war between Saudi Arabia and Iran and how that would likely lead to an oil crisis, while in this case it's led to a wheat crisis. But at the same time, food companies have taken advantage of this moment and of this opportunity and are raising their prices even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So companies like Tyson, General Mills and Cargill are seeing record profits even amid all of these staple crop shortages. I talked to an economist, William Spriggs, who said this is kind of like price gouging. He compared it to going to Florida after a hurricane and selling bottled water for $20 a bottle. If you did that, you would get arrested because that is illegal. But we just don't have the legal infrastructure in place to handle price gouging at such a massive scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do these rising food prices weigh on individual people who are trying to make ends meet?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin:\u003c/strong> I just want to start out by saying that I am so grateful to the folks that I've talked to for my stories. I know it's an incredibly delicate issue. In my most recent piece that I wrote for Civil Eats, I spoke with a woman named Gilmer Dominguez who is a single mom living in LA with her son JP, who is on the autism spectrum and who has a really strict diet and isn't as flexible as others in terms of being able to substitute cheaper foods into his diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She receives monthly allotments through SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, otherwise known as food stamps. She is a refugee from El Salvador. She came here in the last few years seeking refuge. I spoke with her just a few weeks ago on the phone, and she receives about $400 or so a month through SNAP. But she just told me that it's simply not enough for her and her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told me a story about standing in line at the grocery store and watching as the cashier beeped each item that she was buying. And the total just kept rising and rising and rising. And she ended up just having a panic attack there in the grocery store line because of how overwhelming that experience is where she's just not used to seeing prices so high and her SNAP dollars don't go as far as they once did. She told me her SNAP allotment used to cover almost three weeks of groceries. It's intended to cover the month, but it used to cover about three weeks. Now it barely covers two. So she's really struggling to make ends meet. And I've talked to others who are in similar situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have you seen any changes in the different types of people who are availing themselves of these services at the Alameda County Community Food Bank since the pandemic hit?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> Absolutely. So the challenge of food insecurity was already a major issue prior to the pandemic. But what we ended up seeing was a large number of new recipients, first-time users of a food pantry or a food bank. That number began to rise dramatically during the pandemic and is still the case right now. We have a call center at the food bank, and about 30% of the callers calling for some form of food assistance are first-time users of food assistance. This challenge is already so difficult, and now we're seeing it expanded to a variety of different people that may have never thought they would be here. And these are folks out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937357\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937357\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A warehouse with shelves of food.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34032_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_11-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wholesale packages of canned food line the shelves at the Alameda County Community Food Bank, on Nov. 20, 2018. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you think that change is kind of permanent, unless we made an all-out effort to change the situation that existed even pre-pandemic?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> I do think there are some long-lasting effects that may be present if costs stay high, particularly for us in the Bay Area. The cost of living is just high in general. And so what we're seeing is a confluence of issues and really a heightened awareness of where to access food, even for those people who may have needed it but did not know where to go prior to the pandemic and prior to all the media coverage on food insecurity. I absolutely think there's a lot of things that we can do to mitigate this issue. In fact, I think that food insecurity could be eradicated in the Bay Area with the right political will and resources, because I feel like the money is there. But yeah, this will be a challenge that we are going to deal with for a long time if there's not some dramatic changes that occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> I know that there's different ways of calculating food insecurity, but by your best estimates at Alameda County Community Food Bank, how many people do you think are actually experiencing this in Alameda County and in the East Bay?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> Our estimate is that there are about 1 in 4 people that are dealing with some form of food insecurity within Alameda County. And this was 1 in 5 prior to the pandemic itself. And so about 25% of the population may need some form of this and may not know where their next meal is coming from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can you talk about the number of people aging in place? The pandemic put incredible strain on nursing homes and on other places where our elders live. Maybe more of them have decided to stay at home. What has that done for Meals on Wheels?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Oswald:\u003c/strong> It truly has increased. Our capacity was overflowing, as Regi said. We saw an increase in need as well at Meals on Wheels in San Francisco. Here's the reality: In San Francisco, by 2030, 30% of the population will be aged 60 and older. Nationwide, 12,000 Americans are turning 60 each day, and many of those seniors will need resources. Just before the pandemic, we were serving roughly 3,500 seniors a day who rely on us for home-delivered meals. That number skyrocketed in the first year of the pandemic, almost by about 200%. And that included partnering with the city and county of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meals on Wheels, San Francisco ultimately operate in what's called the isolation and quarantine hotline, so anyone of any age who was impacted by COVID called us and, partnering with the SF–Marin Food Bank, we prepared meals and delivered them out to people who could not get out and get food. The reality is these problems have always been there, accessibility and affordability. Many of our seniors, almost 72% of them that receive our meals, live on less than $1,000 a month here in San Francisco, which is really hard to fathom. I spoke with a really charming lady a number of years ago who said that after she pays her bills, her rent and everything, she had exactly maybe $100 left for the entire month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So imagine trying to purchase and get well-balanced meals that are healthy for you. She literally told me that sometimes she would just drink water to feel full. That's really powerful. We owe it to our communities to support them. And it starts, certainly, with funding. But it's much more than that. It's providing the resources down the line to be able to take care of people as they age in place.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does SNAP go far enough? It was my understanding that SNAP got a bump up during the pandemic. Is that going to go away, or is that permanent? What's the state of SNAP now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Cronin:\u003c/strong> There were various pandemic relief programs in place over the past few years. Those bumps you were talking about, those were emergency allotments for SNAP that brought many households up to the maximum allotment levels. Those are still active in California. So CalFresh recipients should still be seeing those emergency allotments, while many other states have already phased those out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in the latest spending bill passed at the very end of 2022, just last month, Congress decided to end those emergency allotments and instead use that money to permanently fund a summer EBT (electronic benefits transfer) program, which is another food assistance program which would basically provide meals to qualifying students during the summer. So this is something that anti-hunger advocates are very excited about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is one of the biggest federal nutrition programs in 50 years. But there's mixed feelings, of course, with those emergency allotments from the pandemic being phased out and shifting that money over to this new program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>President Biden convened one of the first hunger conferences in 50 years. Have you seen any kind of tangible impact from what seems like an attempt at the federal level to focus more attention in aid on the issue of hunger in America?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> Since this was the second convening, we did see huge increases for really addressing food insecurity, like traces of SNAP increases in the farm bill and so forth. And so we are anticipating that there are going to be a lot of changes with hunger relief efforts from the federal level and with that passing on to the states themselves. I think for me, one of the things that we're really excited about is the opportunity for increases in things like SNAP itself, because I think it is the most successful hunger relief program in American history. And the more we're able to not try to supplement people's food and take away the choices that they may have but instead provide them the money to be able to get the food that they need for their health concerns and for their families, that's always going to be the better choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937360\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An elderly white woman sorts through canned food.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS34030_112018_AW_AlamedaCountyFood-Bank_09-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime volunteer Yvette Hash sorts shelf-stable food from the donation bins at Alameda County Community Food Bank to make meal boxes. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Talk to me about Alameda County and the kind of help people can get. And do you think it's adequate for the area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regi Young:\u003c/strong> You have to be able to show up where people are to make it as easy as possible for people to be able to sign up for SNAP itself. The pantry aspect of it is one component, but signing up people for SNAP is a major component for ensuring that people are not going hungry. When I think about Alameda County specifically, we have a lot of strengths. We have a community that's really settled in our social justice, we have a community that's very entrepreneurial by nature, but we also have a lot of challenges ahead of us. We're fortunate that we have a lot of partners. We have over 400 community partners in Alameda County to help support the food bank by allocating food directly out to people in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the challenge that we have is that the costs that people are seeing in the grocery stores are also the costs that we're experiencing as a food bank. But unlike a for-profit company, we're not able to pass on the cost of our foods to the consumers. Everything that we get, we're paying for and giving it out for free. And so the biggest challenge that we're going to have as a county, really as the Bay Area as a whole, is around cost in general — not only inflation, but the fact that the cost of living in the Bay Area is so expensive for folks. We have a resilient, brilliant community base that are receiving our food. One woman we spoke with was literally walking to a food distribution, packing the food and walking home with it so that she could save costs on her gas so that she can navigate to other places and go do work, go do other things that she needs in the course of saving on the food and on the gas, which was beneficial for her to be able to manage that household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so what we're going to continue to see is that people are going to come up with creative solutions to be able to put food on their tables and to meet their needs. But it should not be so hard. And so the things that we're thinking about with our partners is how do we ensure that we have the policies in place, that we have the political will, that we have the backing to make those choices a lot easier for our community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Around the holidays, many folks’ thoughts turn to food banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This can be because people particularly need the services that food banks provide at this time of year. It can also stem from a personal desire to donate money or time to these organizations. For some people, it’s about both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people can’t buy the food they need, that’s known as food insecurity. And for many individuals and families, food banks offer a crucial lifeline, offering free food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for where to find your local food bank, how demand for these organizations has persisted through the COVID pandemic, and how best to support a food bank near you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#find\">Where can I find a food bank near me?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#support\">How can I best support my local food bank?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Demand for food banks rose during the pandemic — and has stayed that way\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2020, San José’s Second Harvest of Silicon Valley had “literally doubled the amount of food we’re distributing” from before the COVID outbreak, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101880355/food-banks-struggle-to-meet-pandemic-fueled-demand\">CEO Leslie Bacho told KQED Forum in 2020\u003c/a> — and demand was already high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing so many people who are already just living on the edge, having to then burn through their savings,” Bacho said in that 2020 interview. “More than half the people we’re serving now have never sought food assistance before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ongoing housing crisis, continuing gentrification, high cost of living and inflation hitting food prices means Bay Area residents continue to be particularly vulnerable to food insecurity as 2022 draws to a close. But what’s happening here continues to be felt nationwide: According to the most recent numbers from the Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, in 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-u-s/key-statistics-graphics/\">more than 33 million people across the United States were food insecure\u003c/a>. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/02/1125571699/hunger-poverty-us-dc-food-pantry\">as NPR has reported, “No community is spared\u003c/a>, with rural areas, families with children and communities of color disproportionately affected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coming out of the height of the pandemic with inflation being as sustained and high as it is, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/02/1125571699/hunger-poverty-us-dc-food-pantry\">it’s a hard time for many families\u003c/a>,” Radha Muthiah, CEO of Washington, D.C.’s Capital Area Food Bank, told NPR recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Altfest, community engagement and marketing director at the Alameda County Community Food Bank, said that the need for his organization’s services has only risen in 2023. Thirty percent of the calls made to the Alameda County Community Food Bank emergency food line are still coming from first-time callers, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since 2021, it’s been a pretty sustained need,” said Altfest. “We’re serving far more people now than we were in 2020, and we continue to see new people regularly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847434\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11847434 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb.png\" alt=\"Two volunteers load food into a dark red car. One volunteer with long brown hair, a baseball cap, a green shirt and a yellow jacket is holding the door of the car. The other volunteer, wearing a blue shirt with short brown hair, is crouched to lift a heavy-looking box into the car.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As demand for food banks soars, drive-thru facilities like this have proved effective at getting people what they need during the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. Brown/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"support\">\u003c/a>How can you help your local food bank?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Donating money might be better than donating food\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altfest said that “the best thing anybody can do to support our food bank or any food bank right now is financial donations.” The same inflation that’s making it harder for people to afford food is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/11/23/us-food-banks-pantries-struggle/10671432002/\">affecting the ability of food banks to purchase supplies to serve their clients\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 60% of the Alameda County Community Food Bank’s funding comes just from the holiday season, said Altfest. But the need for food banks isn’t confined to the holidays. He explains that “hunger is a 365-day-a-year problem,” and that food banks still need support all throughout the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donating money might also be more effective than donating food in helping your local food bank acquire and bring food to those it serves: When the pandemic hit in 2020, it changed the way many food banks solicit and accept food donations due to the risks of spreading COVID — and you still might not see as many food drive collection barrels in stores these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donating money rather than food gives food banks far more flexibility. Second Harvest in San José, for example, is able to negotiate special deals for the food it buys “by the truckload” — at a “much better value than you could get if you went to Costco or Safeway,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101880355/food-banks-struggle-to-meet-pandemic-fueled-demand\">as Second Harvest’s Leslie Bacho told KQED in 2020\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put simply, food banks know how to make your cash go a long way when it comes to buying food — almost certainly further than if you donated food yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Donate your time\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t need the services of a food bank right now, and you have time to spare, you might consider volunteering at a local food bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altfest said that while volunteers are critical, it’s common that their shifts are mostly filled over the holidays. But after January 1, it’s a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re considering taking on a volunteer shift, Altfest said that January and February are important times to consider — and maybe even more impactful — because a lot of support peters out after the holidays end. That’s when you could be needed most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re planning on volunteering at a food bank this holiday season or beyond, check for any COVID vaccination requirements but also still expect potential rules including wearing face coverings and gloves, and maintaining social distance. If you’re nervous about volunteering in person during the ongoing pandemic, speak with someone at the food bank you’re thinking of supporting and ask them about their COVID safety procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Give back in a way that connects with you\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altfest said that it’s also crucial that volunteers support food banks in a way that fosters community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are always encouraging people to support us in the ways that are most meaningful to them,” he said. “Added to that individual direct support — like making a donation, putting food in a food drive barrel, coming in — volunteering is sharing what you’re doing, and what the impact is with other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our intent to get as many people in this community involved in our work in as many ways,” said Altfest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to sign up to help\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quickest way to offer your support is by visiting your local food bank’s website and signing up there to volunteer or make a donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"find\">\u003c/a>Find a food bank near you\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>San Francisco:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/\">SF-Marin Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.stanthonysf.org/\">St. Anthony Foundation\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.glide.org/\">Glide Memorial Church\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityimpact.com/programs/#hunger\">San Francisco City Impact\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.foodrunners.org/\">Food Runners\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oldfirst.org/volunteer.html\">Old First Presbyterian Church Inter-Faith Food Pantry\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>East Bay:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.accfb.org/\">Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/a> (and \u003ca href=\"https://www.accfb.org/get-involved/volunteer-community/\">ACCFB’s partner organizations\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.loavesfishescc.org/\">Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyfoodpantry.org/\">Berkeley Food Pantry\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edfufoundation.org/bay-area-street-pantry.html\">Bay Area Street Pantry\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://unitycouncil.org/program/food-distribution/\">Unity Council’s Food Security Project\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://trivalleyhaven.org/homeless-and-family-support/food-pantry/\">Tri-Valley Haven Food Pantry\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.refp.org/\">Richmond Emergency Food Pantry\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://tmcoakland.org/\">Telegraph Community Ministry Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>North Bay:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vinnies.org/\">St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/\">SF-Marin Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://canv.org/\">Community Action of Napa County Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.refb.org/\">Redwood Empire Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>South Bay:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.shfb.org/\">Second Harvest of Silicon Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marthas-kitchen.org/\">Martha’s Kitchen\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sacredheartcs.org/holidays\">Sacred Heart Community Service\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theriverflows.org/food-pantry\">River of Life Foundation Food Pantry\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Other smaller food banks and community fridges may be operating in your area. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Around the holidays, many folks’ thoughts turn to food banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This can be because people particularly need the services that food banks provide at this time of year. It can also stem from a personal desire to donate money or time to these organizations. For some people, it’s about both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people can’t buy the food they need, that’s known as food insecurity. And for many individuals and families, food banks offer a crucial lifeline, offering free food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for where to find your local food bank, how demand for these organizations has persisted through the COVID pandemic, and how best to support a food bank near you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#find\">Where can I find a food bank near me?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#support\">How can I best support my local food bank?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Demand for food banks rose during the pandemic — and has stayed that way\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2020, San José’s Second Harvest of Silicon Valley had “literally doubled the amount of food we’re distributing” from before the COVID outbreak, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101880355/food-banks-struggle-to-meet-pandemic-fueled-demand\">CEO Leslie Bacho told KQED Forum in 2020\u003c/a> — and demand was already high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing so many people who are already just living on the edge, having to then burn through their savings,” Bacho said in that 2020 interview. “More than half the people we’re serving now have never sought food assistance before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ongoing housing crisis, continuing gentrification, high cost of living and inflation hitting food prices means Bay Area residents continue to be particularly vulnerable to food insecurity as 2022 draws to a close. But what’s happening here continues to be felt nationwide: According to the most recent numbers from the Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, in 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-u-s/key-statistics-graphics/\">more than 33 million people across the United States were food insecure\u003c/a>. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/02/1125571699/hunger-poverty-us-dc-food-pantry\">as NPR has reported, “No community is spared\u003c/a>, with rural areas, families with children and communities of color disproportionately affected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coming out of the height of the pandemic with inflation being as sustained and high as it is, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/02/1125571699/hunger-poverty-us-dc-food-pantry\">it’s a hard time for many families\u003c/a>,” Radha Muthiah, CEO of Washington, D.C.’s Capital Area Food Bank, told NPR recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Altfest, community engagement and marketing director at the Alameda County Community Food Bank, said that the need for his organization’s services has only risen in 2023. Thirty percent of the calls made to the Alameda County Community Food Bank emergency food line are still coming from first-time callers, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since 2021, it’s been a pretty sustained need,” said Altfest. “We’re serving far more people now than we were in 2020, and we continue to see new people regularly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847434\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11847434 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb.png\" alt=\"Two volunteers load food into a dark red car. One volunteer with long brown hair, a baseball cap, a green shirt and a yellow jacket is holding the door of the car. The other volunteer, wearing a blue shirt with short brown hair, is crouched to lift a heavy-looking box into the car.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As demand for food banks soars, drive-thru facilities like this have proved effective at getting people what they need during the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. Brown/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"support\">\u003c/a>How can you help your local food bank?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Donating money might be better than donating food\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altfest said that “the best thing anybody can do to support our food bank or any food bank right now is financial donations.” The same inflation that’s making it harder for people to afford food is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/11/23/us-food-banks-pantries-struggle/10671432002/\">affecting the ability of food banks to purchase supplies to serve their clients\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 60% of the Alameda County Community Food Bank’s funding comes just from the holiday season, said Altfest. But the need for food banks isn’t confined to the holidays. He explains that “hunger is a 365-day-a-year problem,” and that food banks still need support all throughout the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donating money might also be more effective than donating food in helping your local food bank acquire and bring food to those it serves: When the pandemic hit in 2020, it changed the way many food banks solicit and accept food donations due to the risks of spreading COVID — and you still might not see as many food drive collection barrels in stores these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donating money rather than food gives food banks far more flexibility. Second Harvest in San José, for example, is able to negotiate special deals for the food it buys “by the truckload” — at a “much better value than you could get if you went to Costco or Safeway,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101880355/food-banks-struggle-to-meet-pandemic-fueled-demand\">as Second Harvest’s Leslie Bacho told KQED in 2020\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put simply, food banks know how to make your cash go a long way when it comes to buying food — almost certainly further than if you donated food yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Donate your time\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t need the services of a food bank right now, and you have time to spare, you might consider volunteering at a local food bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altfest said that while volunteers are critical, it’s common that their shifts are mostly filled over the holidays. But after January 1, it’s a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re considering taking on a volunteer shift, Altfest said that January and February are important times to consider — and maybe even more impactful — because a lot of support peters out after the holidays end. That’s when you could be needed most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re planning on volunteering at a food bank this holiday season or beyond, check for any COVID vaccination requirements but also still expect potential rules including wearing face coverings and gloves, and maintaining social distance. 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School meals will continue to be free for all California students, as they have been since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Bob Nelson, Fresno Unified superintendent\"]‘Providing healthy, appealing meals goes a long way to helping our students focus on their learning.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"8\">\u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"9\">Education leaders such as Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Alberto Carvalho hope that by ensuring all students get fed for free while at school, and improving the quality of meals, districts can combat food insecurity experienced by families in their area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"10\">\u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"11\">“It’s a human right to have your child fed every single day, no questions asked,” Carvalho said at a recent news conference. “So bring your children to school early enough for them to benefit from breakfast, tell them to walk the line and benefit from the free lunch and let’s enjoy it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"12\">\u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"13\">Carvalho said his favorite new item on LAUSD’s menu was the kung pao chicken, which has a honey glaze and comes with brown rice and broccoli. He also tasted the district’s new cinnamon rolls, ramen bowls, smoothies, and yogurt-and-fruit breakfast bowls and said he enjoyed them all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"14\">\u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"15\">The 2022-23 school year will be the first that California, along with Maine, Vermont and a few other states, are promising to provide every child with free breakfast and lunch. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reimbursed districts for providing free meals to all students. Before then, districts were only reimbursed for feeding students from lower-income homes enrolled in the National School Lunch Program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"16\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/07/20/universal-free-school-lunch-end/\">USDA’s universal meal program sunsets\u003c/a>\u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"18\"> at the beginning of the 2022-23 school year, though it will still reimburse districts for meals for students from lower-income homes. Starting this school year, California and the other states have taken it upon themselves to pick up the remainder of the bill to provide free school meals to all students. Democrats in Congress have proposed \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://edlabor.house.gov/imo/media/doc/healthy_meals_healthy_kids_bill_text.pdf\">\u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"20\">legislation that would expand students’ access to free school meals\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2022/07/22/usda-announces-increased-funding-school-meals-child-and-adult-care\">USDA is increasing its reimbursement rates\u003c/a> for free meals. 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The 2022-23 budget provided an extra $600 million toward a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cashnet.org/news/611609/School-Nutrition-Infrastructure-Funding.htm\">\u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"34\">grant program to upgrade schools’ kitchen infrastructure\u003c/span>\u003c/a> and $100 million for a grant program to promote the best food-procurement practices, such as buying California-grown produce and providing options for students with dietary restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-10.35.51-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922688\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-10.35.51-AM-800x591.png\" alt='A yellow truck has a sign that reads \"Fresh Wheels WCCUSD Food Services\" outside with several people lined up waiting in masks.' width=\"800\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-10.35.51-AM-800x591.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-10.35.51-AM-1020x754.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-10.35.51-AM-160x118.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-10.35.51-AM-1536x1135.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-10.35.51-AM.png 1556w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families line up in Richmond to receive free summer meals provided by West Contra Costa Unified from a food truck the district purchased with grant funds aimed at upgrading school kitchen infrastructure. \u003ccite>(Ali Tadayon / EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"44\">\u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"45\">West Contra Costa Unified, in the East Bay, used the extra funds to purchase a mobile food truck, and through a partnership with nonprofit Conscious Kitchen, the district receives fresh produce for made-from-scratch school meals. 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Some of Fresno Unified’s new meal items include cheeseburgers with USDA certified organic beef, tacos with bean or beef queso, and whole-grain muffins.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"54\">\u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"55\">“Providing healthy, appealing meals goes a long way to helping our students focus on their learning,” Fresno Unified Superintendent Bob Nelson said in a statement.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"56\">\u003cspan data-reader-unique-id=\"57\">Barbara Jellison, the district’s food services director, said West Contra Costa Unified began sourcing more ingredients from Bay Area farmers for ingredients such as cheese, meat, fruits and vegetables as well as local bakers during the pandemic as supply chain issues caused delivery delays and surcharges from some large food distributors throughout the country. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847820/la-demanda-de-bancos-de-alimentos-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-esta-incrementando-como-puedo-encontrarlos-y-apoyarlos\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has lost close to 350,000 jobs during the past year as of September, according to the state Economic Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means across the region, more and more people are finding they can’t purchase the food they need — a situation also known as food insecurity. For many individuals and families, food banks offer a crucial health lifeline in providing food free of charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the Bay Area, food banks are racing to keep up with increased demand for food — and for volunteers. Read on for the facts about food banks, how things have changed during the pandemic, how to find a food bank near you and what you can do to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#find\">Find a food bank near you\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#support\">How to support your local food bank\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Demand for Food Banks is Rising\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Second Harvest of Silicon Valley has “literally doubled the amount of food we’re distributing,” said CEO Leslie Bacho, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101880355/food-banks-struggle-to-meet-pandemic-fueled-demand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an interview with KQED Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand was already high due to widespread food insecurity in Silicon Valley. “We already serving a quarter million people. Now we’re serving a half million people,” Bacho said.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=\"news_11851193\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A housing crisis, continuing gentrification and high cost of living means the Bay Area is particularly vulnerable, but what’s happening here is being felt nationwide. Researchers at Northwestern University \u003ca href=\"https://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/documents/reports/ipr-rapid-research-reports-pulse-hh-data-10-june-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have estimated\u003c/a> that food insecurity has more than doubled in the U.S. as a result of the economic crisis from COVID-19, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/27/912486921/food-insecurity-in-the-u-s-by-the-numbers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">affecting up to 23% of households earlier this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many folks using food banks in the Bay Area are coming to them for the first time, Bacho said. This is a testament to how the pandemic-induced economic crisis is disproportionately impacting low-wage workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing so many people who are already just living on the edge, having to then burn through their savings,” Bacho said. “More than half the people we’re serving now have never sought food assistance before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Food Insecurity’s Impacts Are Unequal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/27/912486921/food-insecurity-in-the-u-s-by-the-numbers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As NPR has reported\u003c/a>, Black and Hispanic Americans are disproportionately affected by the food insecurity that drives the need for food banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to 2019 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, over 19% of Black households and over 15% of Hispanic households experienced food insecurity in 2019. In that same period, white Americans fell \u003cem>below\u003c/em> the national average of about 10%, with less than 8% experiencing food insecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, adults who have a disability — especially those who are not in the workforce — also experience more than twice the rate of food insecurity as adults who do not have a disability, NPR reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847434\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As demand for food banks soars, drive-thru facilities are proving effective at getting people what they need during the pandemic \u003ccite>(Frederic J. Brown/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Food Banks are Finding New Ways to Serve — and Overcome Stigma\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As part of its drive to meet soaring demand, Second Harvest has established 130 new drive-thru sites in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties for people to get the food they need. Bacho said these sites have “really been critical during this time to be able to distribute the food safely and easily, and that “many of these drive-thrus are serving a thousand people at a time.” Bacho stresses that not having a car isn’t a barrier to picking up food at these sites, and people can still access the services on foot.\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Media visibility of food banks has helped places like Second Harvest reach those who need assistance, but Bacho also thinks the drive-thru facilities are encouraging folks who might otherwise feel uncomfortable visiting a food bank to take advantage of the service. When people don’t have to leave their car, “it’s very anonymous, it’s very convenient,” Bacho said, predicting that even post-pandemic, “we will probably continue to see a lot of these drive-thrus, just because I do think that helps reduce the stigma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"support\">\u003c/a>How Can You Help Your Local Food Bank?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Donate Your Time\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t need the services of a food bank right now, and you have time to spare, you might consider volunteering at a local food bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, many food banks specifically need more volunteers to help box up food. A lot of the commodities coming into food banks are pre-boxed, explains Bacho, and having to then box all the food again, ready for recipients who need it, takes a lot of human power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were already very dependent on volunteers,” at Second Harvest, Bacho said, “but especially at this time, we really need volunteers helping us box up food in a warehouse, and then helping us at these distribution sites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, food banks are taking extra precautions to reduce this risks of their volunteers contracting — or spreading — COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In-person volunteers should expect rules on wearing face coverings and gloves, and maintaining social distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Second Harvest food bank is laying firm emphasis on extra sanitation methods, Bacho said, and has overnight deep cleaning in place to keep surfaces sanitized, in addition to its “strong air filtration system” in the facility. They are also screening volunteers for coronavirus symptoms “constantly,” Bacho said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re nervous about volunteering in person during the pandemic, speak with someone at the food bank you’re thinking of supporting and ask them about their COVID-19 safety procedures. Bear in mind that there may be restrictions on folks deemed to be in certain high-risk categories around volunteering — for example, Second Harvest says that at this time, they “do not recommend that seniors (65+) or anyone with a chronic health condition volunteer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Donating Money Might Be Better Than Donating Food\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic has changed the way many food banks solicit and accept food donations, due to the risks of spreading COVID-19. You won’t see as many food drive collection barrels in stores — if any — this holiday season, “we really want to stress financial donations,” Bacho said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donating money rather than food gives food banks far more flexibility, Bacho explains. About a third of the food Bacho’s food bank distributes is purchased, not donated. Second Harvest is able to negotiate special deals for the food it buys “by the truckload” — at a “much better value than you could get if you went to Costco or Safeway,” Bacho said. Put simply, food banks know how to make your cash go a long way when it comes to buying food — and almost certainly further than you’d be able to if you buy food yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve previously donated food directly to a local food bank, and are set on doing so again, remember that they may have changed the way they accept these donations because of COVID-19. Second Harvest, for example, is no longer accepting walk-in food donations to adhere to their safety and social distancing policies, and explicitly asks that you donate funds instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to Sign Up to Help\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quickest way to offer your support is by visiting your local food bank’s website and signing up there to volunteer or make a donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"find\">\u003c/a>Find a Food Bank Near You\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>San Francisco:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SF-Marin Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.stanthonysf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Anthony Foundation\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.glide.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glide Memorial Church\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>East Bay:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.accfb.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.foodbankccs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.loavesfishescc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>North Bay:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vinnies.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SF-Marin Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://canv.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Action of Napa County Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.refb.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redwood Empire Food Bank\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>South Bay:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.shfb.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Harvest of Silicon Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marthas-kitchen.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martha’s Kitchen\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Other smaller food banks and community fridges may be operating in your area. Some food banks can also offer advice and assistance with applying for food benefits such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.getcalfresh.org/\">CalFresh\u003c/a> (also known as food stamps).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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This is a testament to how the pandemic-induced economic crisis is disproportionately impacting low-wage workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing so many people who are already just living on the edge, having to then burn through their savings,” Bacho said. “More than half the people we’re serving now have never sought food assistance before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Food Insecurity’s Impacts Are Unequal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/27/912486921/food-insecurity-in-the-u-s-by-the-numbers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As NPR has reported\u003c/a>, Black and Hispanic Americans are disproportionately affected by the food insecurity that drives the need for food banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to 2019 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, over 19% of Black households and over 15% of Hispanic households experienced food insecurity in 2019. In that same period, white Americans fell \u003cem>below\u003c/em> the national average of about 10%, with less than 8% experiencing food insecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, adults who have a disability — especially those who are not in the workforce — also experience more than twice the rate of food insecurity as adults who do not have a disability, NPR reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847434\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/drive-thru-fb-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As demand for food banks soars, drive-thru facilities are proving effective at getting people what they need during the pandemic \u003ccite>(Frederic J. Brown/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Food Banks are Finding New Ways to Serve — and Overcome Stigma\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As part of its drive to meet soaring demand, Second Harvest has established 130 new drive-thru sites in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties for people to get the food they need. Bacho said these sites have “really been critical during this time to be able to distribute the food safely and easily, and that “many of these drive-thrus are serving a thousand people at a time.” Bacho stresses that not having a car isn’t a barrier to picking up food at these sites, and people can still access the services on foot.\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Media visibility of food banks has helped places like Second Harvest reach those who need assistance, but Bacho also thinks the drive-thru facilities are encouraging folks who might otherwise feel uncomfortable visiting a food bank to take advantage of the service. When people don’t have to leave their car, “it’s very anonymous, it’s very convenient,” Bacho said, predicting that even post-pandemic, “we will probably continue to see a lot of these drive-thrus, just because I do think that helps reduce the stigma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"support\">\u003c/a>How Can You Help Your Local Food Bank?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Donate Your Time\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t need the services of a food bank right now, and you have time to spare, you might consider volunteering at a local food bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, many food banks specifically need more volunteers to help box up food. A lot of the commodities coming into food banks are pre-boxed, explains Bacho, and having to then box all the food again, ready for recipients who need it, takes a lot of human power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were already very dependent on volunteers,” at Second Harvest, Bacho said, “but especially at this time, we really need volunteers helping us box up food in a warehouse, and then helping us at these distribution sites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, food banks are taking extra precautions to reduce this risks of their volunteers contracting — or spreading — COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In-person volunteers should expect rules on wearing face coverings and gloves, and maintaining social distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Second Harvest food bank is laying firm emphasis on extra sanitation methods, Bacho said, and has overnight deep cleaning in place to keep surfaces sanitized, in addition to its “strong air filtration system” in the facility. They are also screening volunteers for coronavirus symptoms “constantly,” Bacho said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re nervous about volunteering in person during the pandemic, speak with someone at the food bank you’re thinking of supporting and ask them about their COVID-19 safety procedures. Bear in mind that there may be restrictions on folks deemed to be in certain high-risk categories around volunteering — for example, Second Harvest says that at this time, they “do not recommend that seniors (65+) or anyone with a chronic health condition volunteer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Donating Money Might Be Better Than Donating Food\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic has changed the way many food banks solicit and accept food donations, due to the risks of spreading COVID-19. You won’t see as many food drive collection barrels in stores — if any — this holiday season, “we really want to stress financial donations,” Bacho said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donating money rather than food gives food banks far more flexibility, Bacho explains. About a third of the food Bacho’s food bank distributes is purchased, not donated. Second Harvest is able to negotiate special deals for the food it buys “by the truckload” — at a “much better value than you could get if you went to Costco or Safeway,” Bacho said. Put simply, food banks know how to make your cash go a long way when it comes to buying food — and almost certainly further than you’d be able to if you buy food yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve previously donated food directly to a local food bank, and are set on doing so again, remember that they may have changed the way they accept these donations because of COVID-19. 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"content": "\u003cp>Catalina Island is 26 miles off the coast of Long Beach, a peaceful rock in the glimmering Pacific. It is known as a tourist destination, but around 4,000 people live there year-round. The island is accessible by small airplane, but most visitors and locals take the ferry — a $75 round-trip journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hour-long ferry from Long Beach to the town of Avalon on Catalina Island is only \u003ca href=\"https://catalinaexpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open for essential travel\u003c/a>. Mask-wearing is mandatory (though you can still purchase a Bloody Mary, if you slip the straw under your mask).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know this because I’m from Catalina. I rode the ferry from Long Beach earlier this month to shelter in place with my mom. There are only \u003ca href=\"https://thecatalinaislander.com/local-covid-patients-recover-mayor-says/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two documented cases\u003c/a> of COVID-19 on Catalina Island, but for a town that relies on tourism, the loss of business has devastated locals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Avalon unemployment estimates are as high as 90%, and most of the town's restaurants, hotels and beaches are closed. The red-brick streets that would typically be bustling with selfie-stick wielding tourists are empty. Avalon feels like a ghost town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes just five minutes to walk from the ferry to the Avalon Community Church. Every Wednesday since mid-March, dozens of families stand 6 feet apart on the sidewalk outside the church, seeking out the shade on a hot spring day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814962\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11814962\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42968_IMG_2785-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42968_IMG_2785-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42968_IMG_2785-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42968_IMG_2785-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42968_IMG_2785-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42968_IMG_2785-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42968_IMG_2785-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42968_IMG_2785-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42968_IMG_2785-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42968_IMG_2785-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families wait in line for groceries at the Avalon Food Pantry. The line stretches around the corner. \u003ccite>(Ariella Markowitz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They’re chatting mostly in Spanish — around two-thirds of Avalon is Latinx. Many are Mexican American and primarily work in the hospitality and food service industry, meaning many are now unemployed. They're waiting patiently in line at the Avalon Food Pantry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dany Silva Rios is a high school senior who volunteers at the pantry. “We all need help right now,\" he said. \"Since the whole island pretty much shut down and no tourists are allowed to come in right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silva Rios didn’t know the food pantry existed a month ago. Before the coronavirus, it fed five to seven families a week. Now, 150 families come by every week for groceries, according to Niah Gerard, a pantry organizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814964\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11814964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42966_IMG_2754-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42966_IMG_2754-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42966_IMG_2754-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42966_IMG_2754-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42966_IMG_2754-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42966_IMG_2754-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42966_IMG_2754-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42966_IMG_2754-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42966_IMG_2754-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42966_IMG_2754-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dany Silva Rios wears rubber gloves when volunteering, as is required.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Wednesdays, Silva Rios helps put together bags of groceries for elderly and disabled residents. He has been doing community service for a long time and he's president of Avalon High’s volunteer club. “I joined mainly because I had a bunch of free time on me. But as soon as I kept going with it, I pretty much just fell in love with helping out people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with the sudden need for volunteers at the food pantry, Silva Rios and his fellow students are delivering groceries to people they have known their entire lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Almost Everyone in Avalon Is Affected\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Everyone I know on the island is impacted by the coronavirus. Even my mom, who works as a tour guide at the zip line, a popular activity for tourists, was furloughed. My sister usually works next door at the aerial adventure park, which is also closed. Both just filed for unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814969\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11814969\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42970_IMG_2760-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42970_IMG_2760-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42970_IMG_2760-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42970_IMG_2760-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42970_IMG_2760-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42970_IMG_2760-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42970_IMG_2760-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42970_IMG_2760-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42970_IMG_2760-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42970_IMG_2760-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dany Silva Rios usually works in the food service industry. Now, he is feeding people in a different way. \u003ccite>(Ariella Markowitz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Avalon, folks struggle to make it on a good day. Many high school students like Silva Rios work to help support their families. “The general goal is to work during most of the summer, the two jobs I have, and save up so I could get ready to go to college,” he said. [aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"More Coronavirus Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He just committed to the University of Denver, and even though he received a big scholarship from Southern California Edison, he’s concerned for his family and community. The rest of his family are also out of work now that the restaurant where his dad waited tables is closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city government knows they can’t rush to bring tourists back because we live in such close quarters — there’s a huge risk of community infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Catalina Island residents are hoping for generous state and federal relief money to help people survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A Tight-knit Island Community\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There is a small silver lining: Everyone in Avalon is used to constantly working, so the pause has allowed time for families to bond, cook and play board games. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now we're just playing Monopoly and everyone seems to have fun,” Silva Rios said. “There was a night where we started like at nine and then we didn't finish it until one in the morning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost everyone in my hometown is struggling. 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He runs the county's \u003ca href=\"http://trinitycountyfoodbank.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">food bank\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11808701,news_11814956\" label=\"The Pandemic: Food Insecurity\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning we first met, it was just after sunrise, and Jeffry and three volunteers were almost done packing a couple of trucks. The vehicles were \"loaded to the gills,\" as Jeffry put it, with produce, prepared foods and special boxes for seniors. He cobbles the food together from a web of local, state and federal programs and delivers it once a month to distribution centers scattered throughout the county. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I rode with him in the cab of a 20-year-old truck with a rattling refrigeration unit. He was heading out to the southern part of the county on the longest of his monthly routes: 230 miles. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I make my trip, because of all the twisty, turny roads, I kinda have to take it a little bit easy,” he told me. Hitting one of the sharp bends too fast could upend the pallets of food he’d assembled for the 10 1/2-hour drive. Out the windshield I saw vehicles that had fallen off the side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I called Jeffry last week, he’d recently made this same run. But this time, he said, he delivered twice as much food. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Normally we take two trucks,” he said. “This time we had to use all four of our box trucks and actually got five volunteers to load pallets on the back of their pickup trucks. So we had a convoy of nine trucks going to Hayfork and then beyond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Solid Rock Church in the former logging town of Hayfork is a monthly distribution spot. 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Despite the county's reliance on visitors who come to stay in hotels and explore the area’s lakes and mountains, officials have urged even those who own second homes there to stay away until the crisis is past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffry was already overworked before the coronavirus, but getting ready for distribution this time, he says, he worked from 14 to 18 hours a day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one day I took the day off, I had 70 phone calls before noon. I talked to the governor’s office in my pajamas,” he says with a tired laugh. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jeffry England\"]'One thing we're having a real problem with is bags to pack because they have to be sterile. The grocery stores are out of bags. And we just barely made it through this month.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he says the community has stepped up. For instance, a local foundation called to ask what the food bank needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I said, ‘I need a 40-foot cargo container and 10 feet tall, 10 feet wide, that's insulated.’ And it was here in three days,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scores of volunteers have shown up to help, as many as 90 in a week. Jeffrey says the bank has enough food to hand out, but has encountered a problem I never considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing we're having a real problem with is bags to pack because they have to be sterile,\" he said. \"The grocery stores are out of bags. And we just barely made it through this month.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trinity County has two main towns — Weaverville, with about 3,500 people, and Hayfork, with about 2,500. Both have grocery stores and a handful of restaurants are open for takeout or delivery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I know from my 2017 visit just how isolated most of this county is. 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Only about \u003ca href=\"https://www.clasp.org/sites/default/files/publications/2019/12/2019_snapandstudentsfoodassistance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one in four students\u003c/a> attend a four-year institution immediately after high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many college students are older or parents themselves. And few have a financial safety net: countless families are spending all they have just to send their children to college, let alone pay for their food and other necessities, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Congress] did recognize there are circumstances where students could and should be eligible for SNAP, and so they set up a number of exceptions from this prohibition against college students getting SNAP,” Larin said. “What are those exemptions, who is eligible for them, how do you meet those exemptions? That’s where the confusion comes in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order for college students to be eligible for SNAP, they must first meet income and asset limits, household qualifications, and immigration status requirements. Those who are enrolled less than half-time — as defined by their school — can then qualify under standard SNAP rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='bayareabites_135943,news_11781066,news_11776046' \u003ci>label=\u003c/i>'More Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students enrolled more than half-time may qualify for SNAP by \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/students\">meeting one of a number of criteria\u003c/a>, including being responsible for a dependent child younger than 6, working at least 20 hours a week in paid employment, receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits, participating in an on-the-job training program, being outside the 18-49 age range, and being unable to work for health reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter if they’re full-time, part-time, half-time, even taking one class, [students] are taking the initiative to really better themselves and grow and further their academic career,” Gilkesson says. “They shouldn’t be punished for not being able to find steady employment in the economy that we are in today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilkesson says it is unclear exactly how many students will lose benefits as a result of the new rule, particularly because able-bodied adults without dependents are not necessarily also classified as students if they are enrolled part-time. But she adds it is clear that the rule will \u003ca href=\"https://www.clasp.org/blog/finalized-snap-rule-rooted-racial-discrimination?fbclid=IwAR1BescyIaxBdFUzwjfMPnoT-OF_sbiSMy82-aHXSjvMqZ10A7d6s-B0PnE\">disproportionately impact \u003c/a>young people, people of color, and those who struggle to find employment, leaving them without much-needed food assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people who receive SNAP who can work, do work,” she says. “But there are a lot of jobs and specifically low wage jobs out here that have volatile schedules … people can be let go at any time, so we shouldn’t allow people to go hungry just based on their ability to maintain work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Community-College-FAQs.html\">NCES data \u003c/a>on unduplicated year-round enrollment, 5.8 million students were enrolled in public two-year colleges in fall 2017. About 2.1 million were full-time, and 3.7 million were part time. Gilkesson says that while there are more students enrolled part time in community colleges than in four-year institutions, food insecurity exists on all types of campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet there is no national estimate for how many college students do not have enough to eat. This was among the findings of a 2018\u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-19-95?mobile_opt_out=1\"> Government Accountability Office report\u003c/a> that also said almost 2 million at-risk students who were potentially eligible for SNAP did not report receiving benefits in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only four in 10 students who are potentially eligible for SNAP are actually enrolled in the program, according to Gilkesson. This is due to perceived stigma as well as confusion about who can apply for SNAP and how to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The information that’s available from the USDA … is difficult to find on their website and also hard to understand, it’s very legal language,” says Larin, adding that people whose jobs it is to connect college students with these resources may struggle to understand the criteria. Advocates worry that the new rule will exacerbate this confusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=' Parker Gilkesson, analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy']‘You need food to live, you need food to work, you need food to thrive’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GAO report released last December made two recommendations: that the Food and Nutrition Service (which is part of USDA) improve the information on its website to make it easier to find and understand, and that it take a more active role in sharing states’ best practices for connecting students to SNAP. The agency agreed with the report’s recommendations but has not yet implemented them as of mid-December 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilkesson received SNAP in college, and was a SNAP worker at a county agency in North Carolina prior to her current job. She says it was not until she saw the other side of the “intricate” process that she realized how much information she never received as a student, both because she didn’t know what to tell workers and they didn’t always know what to ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a SNAP worker, she saw the impact that fresh food and hot meals had on clients’ lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need food to live, you need food to work, you need food to thrive,” Gilkesson says. “And hunger does not make people more employable either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, she adds, hunger makes it harder for people to find well-paying jobs that align with their skills, and often leads to cycles of being laid off, having to find a new job quickly, and missing out on the opportunity to gain the education, training and skills necessary for more meaningful and sustainable employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says research shows SNAP encourages work, and that the idea that people experiencing poverty don’t want to get jobs is “implicit bias.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration says the new rule is intended to promote SNAP \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/04/agriculture-secretary-sonny-perdue-food-stamp-changes-not-about-kicking-people-out.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recipients entering the workforce\u003c/a>. Critics have slammed the change for eliminating food assistance for nearly 700,000 people, many of whom already struggle to find work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilkesson says it is concerning that college students will lose benefits, but the prevalence of food insecurity should be an issue regardless of who is experiencing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one should be hungry,” she says. “That’s a basic necessity. And when we start to think about it in that way, we really will start to see the policy change that we need to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rachel Treisman is an intern for NPR’s National Desk. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GAO report released last December made two recommendations: that the Food and Nutrition Service (which is part of USDA) improve the information on its website to make it easier to find and understand, and that it take a more active role in sharing states’ best practices for connecting students to SNAP. The agency agreed with the report’s recommendations but has not yet implemented them as of mid-December 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilkesson received SNAP in college, and was a SNAP worker at a county agency in North Carolina prior to her current job. She says it was not until she saw the other side of the “intricate” process that she realized how much information she never received as a student, both because she didn’t know what to tell workers and they didn’t always know what to ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a SNAP worker, she saw the impact that fresh food and hot meals had on clients’ lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need food to live, you need food to work, you need food to thrive,” Gilkesson says. “And hunger does not make people more employable either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, she adds, hunger makes it harder for people to find well-paying jobs that align with their skills, and often leads to cycles of being laid off, having to find a new job quickly, and missing out on the opportunity to gain the education, training and skills necessary for more meaningful and sustainable employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says research shows SNAP encourages work, and that the idea that people experiencing poverty don’t want to get jobs is “implicit bias.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration says the new rule is intended to promote SNAP \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/04/agriculture-secretary-sonny-perdue-food-stamp-changes-not-about-kicking-people-out.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recipients entering the workforce\u003c/a>. Critics have slammed the change for eliminating food assistance for nearly 700,000 people, many of whom already struggle to find work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilkesson says it is concerning that college students will lose benefits, but the prevalence of food insecurity should be an issue regardless of who is experiencing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one should be hungry,” she says. “That’s a basic necessity. And when we start to think about it in that way, we really will start to see the policy change that we need to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Maximina Molina Sanchez is worried about going hungry this winter. She depends on a food bank in Huron to feed her husband and two kids. But with most agricultural workers out of jobs during the winter, demand is bound to increase, so she worries there won’t be enough food to feed everyone who needs it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sanchez family is among the 22% of people in Fresno County who couldn’t afford the groceries they needed in the past year. Fresno ranks third in the country for food insecurity, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.frac.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food Research and Action Center.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right']Over a fifth of people in Fresno County could not afford the groceries they needed in the past year.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the county leads the nation in agricultural production. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344919301296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new study\u003c/a> from Santa Clara University revealed that a whopping one-third of the hand-picked crops grown in the state are left to rot in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why can’t this food get to the people who really need it? Food banks are addressing shortages on a piecemeal basis and startups are expanding sales of farmers’ surplus produce. But there is no solution in sight to bridge the food insecurity and crop overproduction that plague the Central Valley because it takes money and labor to harvest the surplus and haul it to food banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd Hirasuna, vice president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sunnysidepacking.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunnyside Packing Company\u003c/a> in Selma, said he was not surprised by the study’s finding. The company regularly leaves a third of its produce in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you lump the whole Valley together, it’s a pretty staggering number at the end of the day,” Hirasuna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hunger in the Valley\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated that \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/interactive-charts-and-highlights/#States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.6 % of households\u003c/a> across the state were food insecure in 2018. In 2016, over a fifth of Fresno residents \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/saipe_treemap/saipe_snap_treemap.html?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=09a6dbd393-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-09a6dbd393-84313689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">received food stamps\u003c/a> — and 10.6% statewide. It’s unclear whether those are the same groups of people. However, according to the Food Research and Action Center, people on food stamps may still be food insecure because the aid doesn’t always cover the cost of the food they need. And many families with insufficient food have incomes higher than the threshold for food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.shfb.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Second Harvest Food Bank of Silicon Valley\u003c/a> found that 27% of residents in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties are at risk of hunger even though they live next to two of the most productive agricultural valleys in the country. The food bank raised the issue with food waste researchers at Santa Clara University, who in turn quantified the amount of surplus in those fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wondered whether there may be some opportunities to salvage the food left in the fields and direct it to people on food assistance,” said Greg Baker, executive director of the Center for Food Innovation and Entrepreneurship at SCU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Examining 20 hand-harvested crops on 123 Central and Northern California fields in 2016 and 2017, the researchers found that 34% of edible produce never makes it off the farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loss rates varied widely among crops; cabbage, romaine lettuce and strawberries were among the most lost. (Researchers refer to leftover produce as “loss,” not “waste,” because unlike food that ends up in a landfill, it can feed livestock or fertilize the soil.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loss rates are likely constant throughout California, according to Baker, but machine-harvested produce experiences much lower levels because the equipment leaves little behind. Produce that can be canned or converted to other food such as raisins also has lower loss rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker found that farmers tend to overproduce to fulfill their contracts with buyers. They plant about a third more than they need in case of weather, pests, plant disease, labor availability, field stability and over-or under-sized crops. If after delivering, the price is too low, they leave the rest to rot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, \u003ca href=\"https://bfarm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bowles Farming Company\u003c/a> in Los Banos harvested close to 85% of its cantaloupes because market demand was high, according to Cannon Michael, company president. However, last year his company left about 80% of its cantaloupes in the field because prices were too low to justify harvesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Food waste is a big concern of ours,” Michael said. “It’s really frustrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Johnson, a researcher at North Carolina State University who specializes in food loss and waste, found that in the Southeast, 40% of crops are lost. This is particularly concerning, she said, because the losses stack atop the 30% to 40% of food that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USDA estimates\u003c/a> is wasted each year in stores and households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/FOOD-WASTE-photo-2-800x564.jpeg\" alt=\"Tomatoes remain in a field in Los Banos after harvest. \" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781094\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tomatoes remain in a field in Los Banos after harvest. \u003ccite>(John Walker/The Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘Why Not Donate it to People in Need?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sanchez has seen the loss first-hand. She was a picker until her son, now 9 months old, was born. Life has been difficult since her husband fell off a truck while he was packing lettuce and injured his back a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westside Family Preservation, a food bank in the roughly 7,000-person town of Huron, keeps most of the town’s agricultural workers from starving by supplying such staples as milk, corn flakes, pasta, rice, beans and canned fruits and vegetables. But the food bank regularly lacks the fresh produce grown in the Valley, which Sanchez said she needs to keep her sons healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of throwing it away, why not donate it to people in need? The cold is coming, it’s going to rain, and these people, we are in need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting food out of the fields and into the households that need it is far costlier than simply growing it, Johnson explained. With limited budgets, food banks can’t offset the full cost of labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11771889,news_11762399,news_11737874' label='RELATED COVERAGE']The \u003ca href=\"https://ccfoodbank.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central California Food Bank\u003c/a> serves about 280,000 families in the Valley, including Sanchez’s family. They share surplus and trade vegetables with over 200 food banks nationwide. But supplies often fall short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s feast to famine,” said Jaclyn Pack, food acquisitions manager at the food bank. “During the summer we’re very feast. I can’t keep our cold storage empty. And during the winter it’s very famine, where I’m constantly trying to figure out how to get product in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food bank provides farms with cardboard boxes and picks them up, and the state gives farmers a tax credit worth 15% of the wholesale value. But Baker said many farmers don’t participate because they either didn’t know about the tax incentives or found the compensation too low. It made more sense to write off the crop as a loss than to donate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not their business,” said Baker. “They’re not running a charity along with their farm. They’re very happy to contribute but it can cost them too much money because they’re operating on slim margins as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food banks have tried to get volunteers to glean the produce off the farms but it didn’t work. Frequently there wasn’t enough time to organize enough volunteers and gleaners take far longer and harvest much less than professional field workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/FOOD-WASTE-photo-3-800x532.jpeg\" alt=\"Rafael Santos picks eggplants for Sunnyside Packing at a field in Sanger.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781095\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafael Santos picks eggplants for Sunnyside Packing at a field in Sanger. \u003ccite>(John Walker/The Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Food Left in Fields Likely to Increase\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Steve Linkhart, director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafoodbanks.org/farm-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Farm to Family\u003c/a>, at the California Association of Food Banks, is working on a statewide solution. He plans to hire the labor the farms already contract to get all the product off the field that could go to food banks. Funding, again, is the main roadblock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to find a way to offset the labor fees,” Linkhart said. Growers and researchers say reducing the surplus calls for a seismic shift. They suggested more open communication within the supply chain. Baker said the retailers could shift the status quo by being more flexible on what they accept. That is, taking more produce that is off-size or has imperfections. That way, growers wouldn’t have to overplant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, investors spent over \u003ca href=\"https://www.refed.com/download#food-waste-investment-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$125 million\u003c/a> on startups looking to address food loss and waste. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/living/food-drink/bethany-clough/article233304382.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Imperfect Produce\u003c/a>, for example, delivers otherwise unmarketable produce to homes, and recently began delivering boxes in Fresno, Merced and Modesto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full Harvest works with growers across California to deliver imperfect fruits and vegetables to food processors across the state and country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are products that didn’t have any channel for incremental revenue,” said Christine Mosely, who runs Full Harvest. “It’s a win-win because the farms are happy to sell it because it would’ve been disced under.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a lot more needs to be done to curtail waste at a bigger scale, or get more of it to people in need and no one has even a roadmap just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael at Bowles suspects the problem will only worsen as produce prices stay low and labor costs rise.“The potential for food to be left in the field is increasing because of the increased human cost,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why a lot of the big folks are trying to move as much production out to Mexico and Central America, because the cost of labor is so much less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Manuela Tobias is a journalist at The Fresno Bee. This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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