SF News Extra Federal Food Stamp Assistance Ending, Leaving Nearly 100K San Franciscans At Risk of Food Insecurity An estimated 96,000 SF residents across 70,000 households — representing 12% of the city’s population — will lose an average of $160 a month in CalFresh benefits, as food prices continue to rise.
SF News New Analysis Shows Almost 900 Bay Area Neighborhoods Are Inside 'Food Deserts' The pandemic pushed local food banks to the brim as they dealt with record numbers of requests. COVID-19 has also stretched the Bay Area's growing food access crisis, leaving a large amount of the region's population more than a half-mile away from the nearest grocery store.
SF News Local Food Bank Opens First Drive-Through Pantry in SF; No Reservations Needed To Collect Sustenance The Giants parking lot at Oracle Park — Seawall Lot 337 — was transformed into a drive-through food pantry yesterday afternoon by the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, a first of its kind for the city.
SF News San Francisco's Push To Eliminate Hunger, By The Numbers Established in 2005, San Francisco Department of Health Food Security Task Force is "charged with the responsibility of creating a city-wide plan for addressing food security." Those goals got more specific in 2013,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink FedEx To Match Food Bank's Morning Snack Program Donations Through Friday The San Francisco Food Bank has been bringing daily healthy morning snacks to hungry students at schools throughout San Francisco for the past three years, largely in part thanks to the generosity of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Editor To Take S.F. Food Bank Hunger Challenge Hello there. It's me, Brock Keeling, editor of SFist. I'm coming at you in the first-person since I will starve to death (presumably) next week when I take and then report on the
SF News Cal Hunger Strike Students Free to Eat Quinoa Again After UCB Chancellor Robert Birgeneau agreed to a meeting with representatives, Cal students called off their 10-day hunger strike last night. The Daily Californian, "The strike, which began May 3 as a demonstration
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Help the Hungry at 'Taste of the Nation' Fundraiser, Thursday, 4/29 Before you shove another maple bacon donut down your richly-textured gullet, remember: people are still starving in America. Even in San Francisco. (Look for further than Civic Center on a Monday night to
misc As God As My Witness You'll Never Go Hungry Again With Our New Kobe Steaks and Pomme Frites! So, the Old Gray Lady hauled out the printing press to publish a story about how "cool-hunting hipsters" love Valenica Street. Sure, it's a dated piece. Wildly so, it seems. The article goes
SF News Was Tatiana the Tiger Just Hungry? Speculations are being thrown around that Tatiana the tiger was "underfed," possibly urging her to go on a fatal eating binge last Christmas. It seems that when Tatiana arrived at the SF Zoo
