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San Francisco-Marin Food Bank Our mission is to end hunger in San Francisco and Marin.
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10/17/2026

College students already have enough on their to-do lists. Being required to work 20-hours a week just to qualify for CalFresh? No longer a requirement! ✅🎓And advocacy from the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank helped make it happen.

Governor Gavin Newsom joined us to mark a major expansion of CalFresh eligibility, opening the door for nearly 350,000 students across California to access food simply for being a student, and unlocking more than $400 million in annual benefits to help support our learners.

Hear from our Executive Director Tanis Crosby about the Food Bank's advocacy behind this milestone and what it means for students.

Read more about the expansion:
🔗 https://ow.ly/7KnE50ZYEsz

This , we're thinking about what access to nourishing food makes possible for our neighbors and the communities we shar...
10/16/2026

This , we're thinking about what access to nourishing food makes possible for our neighbors and the communities we share.

It means one less impossible choice for parents, more opportunities for kids to learn and thrive, and more dollars circulating through our local economy.

But with rising living costs and cuts to food assistance, too many of our neighbors in San Francisco and Marin are struggling to afford groceries.

This World Food Day, you can help close that gap.

Thanks to Dyann Tresenfeld and Ed Waldrup, your first monthly gift to the Food Bank will be DOUBLED for an entire year, helping provide fresh, nourishing groceries for our neighbors when they need them most.

💚 Give today and make twice the impact: https://donate.sfmfoodbank.org/page/94594/donate/1?ea.tracking.id=2AWeb2627-S&&utm_campaign=oct_mgc&utm_medium=organicsocial&utm_source=facebook

10/16/2026

Ending hunger starts with policy change, and policy change begins at the ballot box. It will require the entire community, including elected officials, to prioritize ending hunger as a critical issue this election year.

As part of our work to advocate for policy change to end hunger, our teams asked local San Francisco and Marin candidates how they intend to address hunger in our communities.

Survey results:
🔗 https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/vote-to-end-hunger-2026/

And remember, advocacy doesn’t end on Election Day! Sign up for our Policy Action Alerts to stay informed about opportunities to raise your voice for policies that address hunger year-round.

🔗 https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/advocacy/

As a 501(c)(3) organization, we operate entirely as a nonpartisan entity. This will be an opportunity for the community to hear the vision and platform of the candidates. We won't endorse or oppose any candidate.

This Latinx American Heritage Month, we’re celebrating the people and perspectives that make our Food Bank community wha...
10/15/2026

This Latinx American Heritage Month, we’re celebrating the people and perspectives that make our Food Bank community what it is. Meet Omar Flores (they/them), our bilingual CalFresh ambassador coordinator.

For Omar, celebrating their Latinx heritage is deeply tied to community. Sometimes that looks like joining the Mission’s Fiesta de las Américas. Sometimes it’s laughing at a meme that feels a little too familiar. At the heart of it is a connection to the people, traditions and histories that shaped them.

Omar grew up seeing what it meant to share what you have.

Their Tía Alicia was the first person in their family to have access to a house. As relatives immigrated to the U.S., she opened her home again and again, giving family members somewhere to stay for weeks or even months at a time.

“She made a conscious decision to share what she had and provided a basic needs lifeline to myself and dozens of my relatives.”

Omar saw the same kind of care in their father, Juan Carlos Flores, who spent decades running a Mexican restaurant to support his family. On paper, it was a business, a practical way to care for his family through the food knowledge and traditions passed down through generations. In practice, it was also a gathering place, a celebration space and somewhere family and friends knew they would be welcomed. If someone couldn’t afford a full meal, their father made sure they were taken care of.

Those lessons live on in Omar’s work today. As a bilingual CalFresh ambassador coordinator, they equip CalFresh Ambassadors with the knowledge and tools to educate their own communities about food assistance and how to access it. It’s a continuation of something they learned at home: resources become more powerful when they’re shared.

As Omar puts it: “We have a duty to take care of our community, and we must never shy away from that responsibility.” 💚🍏

A big thank-you to Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature for their commitment to fighting hunger! 💚 The s...
10/15/2026

A big thank-you to Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature for their commitment to fighting hunger! 💚

The state budget now includes $118 million in CalFood funding, helping food banks across California provide fresh, nutritious groceries to their communities.

With federal cuts to CalFresh and rising grocery prices putting more pressure on families and food banks statewide, this investment comes at a critical time.

CalFood allows food banks to purchase California-grown food, supporting our state's farmers and economy while providing groceries that meet our neighbors' diverse cultural and dietary needs.

We're grateful for this investment in our communities at a time when it's needed most.

10/10/2026

Our neighbors were already struggling to afford food. Then the safety net got thinner.

Our new Hunger Report finds that nearly 1 in 3 households in San Francisco and 1 in 4 in Marin don’t earn enough to cover basic needs. Among low-income San Francisco residents surveyed, 80% worry about running out of food.

Now, federal restrictions are putting 17,000 CalFresh recipients in San Francisco and 1,800 in Marin at risk of losing their benefits.

Those cuts don’t stay on paper. They show up when families put groceries back at checkout and when neighborhood businesses see fewer dollars coming through the door. That loss ripples through the local economy.

Hunger is a policy choice. Our 2026 Hunger Report looks at the choices driving hunger across our region, who is being asked to bear the consequences and what it will take to change course.

Read the report: https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/hunger-report-2026/

Gov. Gavin Newsom visited SF-Marin Food Bank to meet with students from SF State and College of Marin to discuss the Cal...
10/09/2026

Gov. Gavin Newsom visited SF-Marin Food Bank to meet with students from SF State and College of Marin to discuss the CalFresh Student Eligibility Expansion that took effect this summer, California’s response to the devastating H.R.1 cuts to CalFresh benefits last year.

The SF-Marin Food Bank helped advocate for this policy change, and to help even more students sign up for CalFresh, we are uplifting the Full Carts initiative, a state-wide campaign to help California students — especially students who don’t know they qualify for CalFresh — access free benefits.

This is a big deal: For years, many students had to work 20 hours a week on top of class just to qualify.

Now, an estimated 348,000 additional students attending California’s public colleges and universities can now qualify for CalFresh, simply by being enrolled in an associate or bachelor’s degree program.

“We can’t expect students to learn if they’re hungry, and in California, there is no reason for them to be, whether they’re in kindergarten, high school, or college,” said Gov. Gavin Newsom. “You shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to get the food benefits you’re entitled to, and now you don’t have to.”

College students already have plenty to juggle: classes, exams, tuition, work and stretching a student budget. Figuring out whether they’ll have enough to eat shouldn’t be another thing competing for their attention.

The CalFresh Student Eligibility Expansion of 2026 removes several longstanding barriers, including the previous 20-hour federal work requirement, and unlocks an estimated $420 million in annual CalFresh benefits for students across the state.

Gov. Newsom joined San Francisco-Marin Food Bank Executive Director Tanis Crosby at our warehouse to mark the launch of Full Carts. The Food Bank’s policy and advocacy team helped advance the administrative change behind this expanded eligibility.

"No student should have to be hungry to earn a degree — and the students most impacted are communities of color. That’s a policy choice, and thanks to the Governor and the Breakthrough Project, it’s changing. Thousands of California students can now access CalFresh, so they can focus on their degree instead of their next meal,” said Tanis Crosby.

Through Full Carts, we’ll help make sure students know what’s changed and how to apply. Follow on Instagram to learn more!

Are you a public college student? Check your eligibility here: https://ow.ly/zhqu50ZWxtM

If you're in San Francisco or Marin, you can also call our CalFresh team at 415-824-3663 or make an appointment at https://ow.ly/4rxW50ZWxtL

Learn more about yesterday’s announcement and what it means for students: https://ow.ly/1YJ950ZWxz4

That’s a lot of talent in one photo. 🤩To every chef and restaurant partner who brought their time, creativity and seriou...
10/07/2026

That’s a lot of talent in one photo. 🤩

To every chef and restaurant partner who brought their time, creativity and seriously good food to One Big Table: thank you.

You helped make this year’s celebration one to remember while supporting the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank’s work to provide food to 46,000 households each week across San Francisco and Marin.

Thank you for bringing so much to the table, in every sense of the phrase. 💚🍏

Chris and Paul spent 26 years as colleagues at a San Francisco law firm. Over that time, they both became steady support...
10/06/2026

Chris and Paul spent 26 years as colleagues at a San Francisco law firm. Over that time, they both became steady supporters of the Food Bank — donating and volunteering year after year.

Then Chris told Paul about donor-advised funds.

"Somehow I missed donor-advised funds all of that time," Paul says. "And [when I heard about them] I was like, 'Really, that's so great and so simple.'"

A decade in, thanks to investments with the potential to appreciate over time, Paul’s DAF has grown. That growth translates into more meals when those funds are put to work.

His only regret? "I wish I'd known about it earlier, frankly."

Read the full blog: https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/blog/two-colleagues-one-cause-and-a-smarter-way-to-give/

Learn more about DAFs: https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/gifts-of-stocks-daf-ira/

Strong communities depend on families being able to afford the basics, especially food. But as grocery prices and the co...
10/06/2026

Strong communities depend on families being able to afford the basics, especially food. But as grocery prices and the cost of living remain high, changes to SNAP/CalFresh are putting even more pressure on the systems families rely on.

That makes a strong food safety net more important than ever.

Every week, the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank helps provide fresh groceries to 46,000 households across San Francisco and Marin. Your support helps us plan ahead and make sure neighbors facing hunger have somewhere to turn.

And right now, your monthly gift can go twice as far. Thanks to Dyann Tresenfeld and Ed Waldrup, all monthly gifts will be DOUBLED.

Make a 2X-matched gift today to help strengthen the food safety net for our neighbors.
🔗 https://ow.ly/U5oR50ZULEQ

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