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Yolo County Food Bank receives $1 million grant
The Sacramento Region Community Foundation will award one million dollars to the Yolo County Food Bank to address food insecurity over the next three years. Representatives say the ...
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Sacramento Region Community Foundation Grants $1M to Feed Local Families
The Sacramento Region Community Foundation (Foundation) will award over one million dollars ($1,000,000) to address food ...
Senate considers billions in foreign aid cuts
The Senate is considering formalizing nearly $10 billion of DOGE cuts in a “recission package” sent to Congress from the White House. The package includes cuts to foreign aid.
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The Great Tomato Challenge
The theme of the 2025 Agri-Pulse Food & Ag Issues Summit was Navigating New Waves of Challenges & Opportunities. Agri-Pulse Founder and Publisher, Sara Wyant recognizes the first and second place ...
Food Literacy Center secures $500k from Sacramento to fight food insecurity
In a neighborhood facing food insecurity, the Food Literacy Center is planting the seeds for healthier futures-one recipe at ...
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Next up for UC’s Class of 2025? Building California’s brilliant future
From jobs to graduate school to giving back to the communities they came from, UC’s latest crop of graduates has big plans to ...
California budget would slash funding for state food banks
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year includes a nearly 90% reduction in funding for a state program called ...
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From Hollywood to East LA, California’s food bank funding cuts will hit local neighborhoods
Undeterred by the high sun and cloudless sky, area residents queued up dozens deep, waiting for the food distribution to begin. “Sometimes people start lining up at noon, and we don’t distribute until ...
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The Great Food Bank Robbery: Hungry Californians Face Losing Their Daily Bread
But although COVID rates are down, Newsom’s budget proposal — to return to baseline funding — would gut the program when food insecurity is still running ... Nguyen told Capital & Main. Nguyen ...
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Food banks, pantries facing triple threat of food insecurity, increased demand and federal cuts
Keever says things are different than during the COVID-19 pandemic, when there was federal funding available specifically to combat increased demand and rising costs. “Food insecurity actually ...
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San Joaquin County nonprofits get their funding cut from state, national levels
STOCKTON — In San Joaquin County, roughly one in ten people are food insecure. To get help ... and these organizations work to feed them, despite funding challenges. "If we give them Eggos ...
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Federal funding cuts hit as food insecurity rises in Connecticut
Food insecurity is up 11% since last year and up 40% since 2020, which was at the height of the pandemic. A closer look shows, 1 in 6 of those who are food insecure are children and 1 in 12 are ...