CALIFORNIAFOOD banksTELEVISION cooking programsCOVID-19 pandemicCOVID-19GOVERNMENT agenciesThe COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented spikes in food insecurity. In California, food banks, which were already facing high demand for emergency food assistance, rallied federal, state and local resources t...
Rebecca Lehman, Esri’s nonprofit program lead, told StateScoop that one food bank she’s working with in Southern California was forced by heightened demand to move its operations from two small facilities into a stadium, where lines of cars sit “all day long.” “In the U.S., the sca...
Contributing to the Vegans of Los Angeles food bank for the past year and a half, Paige supported the nationwide media launch, as well as helped with the foundational aspects of the multiple food banks around the city. A vegan food bank in LA VeganNews VeganEvents Subscribe to our ...
Gwenna Hunter, founder of Vegans of Los Angeles and creator of the first Vegan Food Bank in the city, made history in May 2022 with starting the first vegan food bank in Los Angeles, California and also as the first Black woman to establish a brick-and-mortar Vegan food bank in the co...
Coronavirus in CaliforniaKTVU FOX 2SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday focused on farmworkers and food banks, announcing he wants to connect the dots in the chain so that food won't go to waste.Since the coronavirus pandemic began in mid-March, Newsom said there has ...
National Guard to help distribute food in California Sara Zendehnam reports. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTVU) - The California National Guard is being deployed to help food banks during the statewide stay at home order. Governor Gavin Newsom called on the California National Guard to complete a short ...
Other food banks across the country are reporting similar trends: a gradual decrease this year, starting in about April, but still far higher than any pre-pandemic numbers. At the Central California Food Bank in Fresno, the numbers have “leveled off” in recent months but...
Once the farmers bring their surplus crops to the cooperative, the staff there mix and package the produce into smaller shipments that then go out to the food banks. “One of the first lessons we learned when we were putting together this model was that we need to get produce out i...
Much of the food we throw out is perfectly edible. With 50 million people expected to suffer from food insecurity in 2022 alone, this is unacceptable. Food banks and shelters across the country would welcome the food that many Americans throw away. ...
In California,they found a farmer who had 13,000 eggs that could be donated,and Reilly offered to do the pickup and delivery himself.That was the first of many more deliveries.With"we'll come to you" as their catchphrase,the group rented trucks and attempted to do al...