The Food Security Summit is a six-part virtual series aiming to create space for people to learn about needs and resources and explore a shared understanding and a common vision to address regional food insecurity and hunger in the greater Grand Traverse region.
It strives to create additional public awareness through sharing data and stories of care, resiliency, and change, and to highlight a whole-community issue that is rapidly increasing in severity with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Good news on SNAP benefits
www.fns.usda.gov/news-item/usda-006421
USDA Increases Emergency SNAP Benefits for 25 million Americans | USDA-FNS
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Role of Food Bank Nutrition Policies: A Guide to Action | Hunger and Health
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This section of Feeding America’s Nutrition in Food Banking Toolkit is focused on helping food banks assemble working groups, create and implement nutrition policies, and track success in achieving policy goals that lead to a more nutritious food supply for communities experiencing food insecurity...
This is a great article that talks about the population that is food insecure or on the verge of being food insecure. We talked about the ALICE population in Session One of the Food Security Summit. Its a population that was steadily increasing before the population despite a good economy.
www.record-eagle.com/news/alice-in-paradise-report-outlines-number-of-households-living-from-payc...
ALICE in paradise: Report outlines number of households living from paycheck to paycheck
www.record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Carmin Farmer lives in a trailer house with leaky windows and soft spots in the floors.
We talked about these issues in the Food Security Summit. A good read
civileats.com/2021/03/24/its-time-to-reinvent-food-banks-says-expert-katie-martin/
It's Time to Reinvent Food Banks, Says Expert Katie Martin | Civil Eats
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In her new book, Martin explores the charitable food system and what it will take to create a national system focused on nutritional quality and effective distribution.
Good to see SNAP benefit increase
www.morningagclips.com/usda-increases-snap-benefits-up-to-100-per-household/
USDA increases SNAP benefits up to $100 per household
www.morningagclips.com
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today a 15 percent increase in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits through September 2021, providing an estimated...