California Association of Food Banks
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California Association of Food Banks (CAFB) is a membership organization of 42 food banks from throughout the state with a shared mission to end hunger in California and a firm commitment to providing cutting-edge leadership in the anti-hunger community.
California Association of Food Banks
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This month, we celebrate the successful migration of all California’s 58 counties to the new CalSAWS (California Statewide Automated Welfare ..read more
California Association of Food Banks
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The expansion of CalFresh benefits to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients in 2019 was the biggest increase in program eligibility ..read more
California Association of Food Banks
4M ago
Students out of school for the summer may lack access to period supplies. When the last school bell rang in ..read more
California Association of Food Banks
5M ago
CAFB’s new department of Research and Strategic Initiatives uses data to understand the state of hunger in California and how ..read more
California Association of Food Banks
1y ago
The skyrocketing cost of gasoline is forcing the cost of food in California even higher, and millions of Californians are ..read more
California Association of Food Banks
1y ago
We at CAFB are so grateful to all who attended Food ACCESS 2022: Everyone to the Table presented by PG&E ..read more
California Association of Food Banks
1y ago
Yesterday, Governor Newsom issued a veto message for AB 1965 (Wicks) that would have created “CARE” (California Anti-Hunger Response) benefits ..read more
California Association of Food Banks
1y ago
The California Association of Food Banks (CAFB) is partnering with L.A. Care Health Plan to identify and support up to ..read more
California Association of Food Banks
1y ago
SB 364 (Skinner), was, and still is, a bold vision toward ending childhood hunger. A vision which began in early ..read more
California Association of Food Banks
1y ago
So how did ACCFB come to this newfound commitment? Director of Policy & Partnerships Deen Hasaan explained, “The way that we talk about equity can be very abstract and very academic, and so our early conversations were about, how do we make this practical? So we put our minds together and we realized that our procurement was an entry point to put these ideas into practice ..read more