Florida Impact

Fighting poverty since 1979 🌞 We work to protect and strengthen nutrition programs which feed Florida Mobilizing Communities Against Hunger and Poverty

08/21/2026

Throughout the state, is more than just food assistance; it is also community resilience for each of our hometowns. When federal food stamp benefits are cut, the burden shifts directly onto local Florida food banks, neighborhood grocers, and community anti-hunger coalitions.

To wrap up our with , we are urgingFlorida's House Representatives—including Aaron Bean, Darren Soto, Maxwell Frost, Kathy Castor, Laurel Lee, Frederica Wilson, Mario Díaz-Balart, María Elvira Salazar, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Jared Moskowitz, to champion a Farm Bill that restores critical SNAP investments, reverses harmful cuts in H.R. 1, while keeping local and marginalized communities fed.

Visit FRAC's official site for more on the fight to protect SNAP.

08/20/2026

To be frank, children cannot learn or dream with an empty stomach. As the Food Research & Action Center highlights, SNAP works alongside school meal programs to keep Florida's students healthy and ready to succeed. This week, we are urging our supporters and Florida's Senators to amplify and rally around supporting a Farm Bill that restores SNAP investments, reverses harmful cuts in H.R. 1, all while protecting food assistance for Florida families. Senator Rick Scott

Explore FRAC’s SNAP Participation Tracker at the link in our bio to see Florida's data, or call Congress at (202) 224-3121 to demand food security for our kids today.

08/19/2026

Week of Action Day 3 🟢: Between January 2025 and April 2026, 5.8 million people lost SNAP benefits nationwide, including 5 million following H.R. 1.

Reversing these cuts strengthens our nation:

🟢 Hunger & Housing Stability: Over 78% of SNAP recipients depend on Medicaid or dual-eligible coverage. SNAP benefits directly reduce insecurity while freeing up household capital for essential housing and utility costs.

🟢 Lowers Healthcare Costs & Medicaid Spending: SNAP participation is reportedly linked to improved health outcomes and reduces annual medical expenses per participant by lowering emergency room visits and chronic disease complications.

🟢 Fuels Local Business: Reportedly boosts local economies by directing billions in federal benefits into over 260,000 neighborhood grocers and retailers nationwide.

Swipe through to view the data and share this post to help protect food access across Florida.

Sources: Food Research & Action Center, U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey & Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) SNAP Analysis, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), USDA Food & Nutrition Service

08/18/2026

Day 2 of Week of Action Food Research & Action Center:

As costs stay high, shifting SNAP expenses onto states leaves working families behind.

When benefits shrink, families face impossible choices between food, rent, and medicine. As Claudia from Florida shares: “I can barely make it with the current SNAP benefit so any cut would be the difference of eating a meal or not.”

08/17/2026

Day 1: Invest in the Power of SNAP 🔴🌾

SNAP is more than an individual safety net. It's also an economic engine that families rely on. Farmers are largely reliant on it, and so are local grocers (no surprise here).

When SNAP faces cuts, the fallout impacts our entire food ecosystem:
🏠 Families: An analysis found that H.R. 1 will disproportionately reduce income for the lowest-earning 20% of households by an average of 3.8%.
🏪 Food Retailers: According to FRAC, within six months, as participants lose SNAP, small grocers could see sales decline by as much as 6.7%.
🚜 Farmers: Farmers stand to lose $24 billion over the next decade as household food purchases decline.

Investing in SNAP means taking Florida’s collective economic stability seriously.

08/14/2026

National Week of Action kicks off on Monday, August 17! 🍎🌾

Florida Impact is centering Food Research & Action Center’s (Food Research & Action Center’s) call to action to highlight how SNAP strengthens our state—from local farmers to neighborhood families.

What’s coming to your feed next week:

🍎 Mon: Invest in The Power of SNAP
🍌 Tue: Address the Cost Shift
🫐 Wed: Reverse the Cuts
🥭 Thurs: Protect Children’s Access to Nutrition
🍉 Fri: Reach out to State & Local Officials

Drop a 🍎 in the comments if you’re ready to advocate with us and Food Research & Action Center.

07/24/2026

In the wake of modern issues, it's integral to prepare the next generation to tackle significant community challenges like food insecurity.

This summer in our GEMS Youth Leadership Summer Program in Tallahassee, students explored food justice, leadership development, and goal setting. 🌱

By utilizing chess and hands-on community gardening, students learned how to:
• Navigate having choices, which can be paired with actionable steps.
• Support local food ecosystems.
• Determine key community challenges and advocate for change.

Our GEMS Youth Leadership Summer Program is nearly done. With our detailed approach, we truly believe we're building foundational skills needed for success, not limited to teamwork, patience, and identifying their strengths.

07/17/2026

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), Florida’s SNAP enrollment has plummeted by 20% since the enactment of H.R. 1. This decline is double the national average of 10%, proving our state is facing an unprecedented barrier to food security.

The most alarming aspect of these cuts is who they impact most: our children. A year after these historic cuts took effect, the number of children receiving SNAP nationwide is estimated to have dropped by more than 1.5 million since July 2025.

Rigid work time limits and aggressive state-level efforts to reduce administrative "error rates" aren't creating economic mobility. Instead, they are creating structural hurdles that inadvertently kick eligible, low-income families off the program entirely.

Hunger isn't decreasing in Florida, administrative access is. True advocacy means tearing down these barriers and protecting the safety nets that keep our communities stable.

👇 Review the charts below to see how these program shifts are uniquely impacting our state compared to the rest of the nation.

07/10/2026

This week, Florida Impact CEO Kim Johnson stepped out into the community to engage with the brilliant scholars from the Black Rose Summer Series by Strickland Educational Services, Inc.

Kim reminded these rising leaders that they are the GEMS of our community, encouraging them to view every challenge as a vital opportunity to grow, learn, and to always lead with integrity. At Florida Impact, we know that a more equitable future begins with investing in and uplifting our youth.

A massive thank you to Kenya Strickland for inviting us to be a part of this inspiring summer series. The future of Florida is incredibly bright because of leaders like you! ☀️💼

📸 Swipe for highlights from an empowering afternoon.

06/30/2026

Florida’s SNAP error rate is declining, but local households remain at risk. 🛒

While Florida's administrative payment error rate fell to 12.97%, it remains above federal limits. Without state-level action, Florida faces severe financial penalties by 2028.

These penalties directly impact Florida food assistance funding at a time when families are already struggling with the skyrocketing cost of groceries.

🚨 Why does this matter? Error rates track state bureaucratic math errors, not consumer fraud. Hardworking families should not absorb the cost of administrative challenges.

📢 How can you protect local families? Urge your state leaders to invest in better program administration, not food assistance cuts.

🔗 Find and contact your elected official here: dos.fl.gov/elections/contacts/elected-officials/

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