Advocacy

CalFresh for SSI recipients starting in June 2019! This year California won a historic victory for the 1.3 million Supplemental Security […]

December 20, 2018 – Oakland, Calif. – Today, the President signed into law H.R. 2, the Agriculture Improvement Act of […]

Thursday, December 20, 2018 Today, President Donald J. Trump signed House Resolution 2, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 also […]

Today, the Farm Bill cleared the House on a vote of 369-47 after passing in the Senate yesterday by a […]

This week, the public comment period closed on the proposed public charge rule that would worsen hunger and hardship for […]

The Farm Bill Conference Report was released yesterday, December 10. Full text is available here. Our joint statement on the Report with […]

Today, the national Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF) campaign kicks off their “Poverty, Hunger and Housing” theme week and CAFB is […]

As the nation prepares to observe Veterans Day, the California Association of Food Banks is calling on Congress to support […]

Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security published the proposed rule on public charge. The proposed rule signficantly expands the list of programs […]

On September 26, 60 food bankers representing 30 member food banks converged at CAFB’s Annual Member Meeting in Oakland’s historic […]