Advocacy
June 3, 2025
Our Food Bank Network is Here to Help — Find Food and Resources
Across California’s college and university campuses, food banks play a critical role in helping students succeed. From UC and CSU […]
Earlier this week, the California Association of Food Banks (CAFB) hosted our annual Capitol Action Day in Sacramento — a […]
Today, the California Association of Food Banks (CAFB) honored two anti-hunger leaders in California at the annual Capitol Action Day event. The honorees include State Senator John Laird and State Assemblymember Stephanie Nguyen as champions of CalFood program advocacy.
Yesterday morning, Governor Newsom released his May Revise budget proposal for the 2025-26 State Budget, which projects a significant State […]
The CalFood Program Funded the Purchase of 80 Million Pounds of Food in 2024; Reduced Funding Would Severely Impact Food-Insecure […]
Yesterday, the House voted to advance the budget reconciliation process with instructions to make trillions in deep cuts to critical […]
On Friday, Governor Newsom released his proposed 2025-26 State budget. We are grateful that this initial proposal that will guide […]
Today, President Biden signed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government. However, the stopgap bill did not include an […]
Sixty years ago on August 31, 1964, the Food Stamp Program became permanent when the Food Stamp Act was signed into […]
The California Association of Food Banks had the pleasure of partnering with students from the Goldman School of Public Policy […]
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