Thank you! Your actions and advocacy have made a difference. We just wanted to share with you the latest update from Worcester County Food Bank, detailing the successes your advocacy has helped achieve this spring and to send out two last asks. The full text of the letter from WCFB’s Maggie Cawley is below. Please […]
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Advocacy Action Alert – Breakfast After the Bell
Hi, friends! We want to share some good news and a request for help from our friends at Worcester County Food Bank. We’ve been pushing hard to get Breakfast After the Bell over the finish line this year, and we’ve got a good shot at making it happen! Here’s the full text of the letter […]
Advocacy Alert: HIP Needs Your Help Today
I’m posting today to share a letter from Martha, our director here at the Worcester Food Policy Council. If you haven’t done this already, could you please pick up the phone and call your senator today? It’s the best way to let them know that you care about healthy food access for all of our […]
Breakfast After the Bell – 10 Reasons It Makes Sense
You probably already know that Breakfast After the Bell is one of our key legislative priorities this year (and it’s not exactly new – we’ve been working on it for a while and so have many of our progressive food champions in the legislature). What you may not know is why BATB is so important […]
Federal Government Tackles Wasted Food
Wasted food is a big issue — an enormous one, really, when you consider that nearly half the food produced in the US goes to landfills. In a world where we’re frequently at odds with policy proposals coming out of Washington, this release from the EPA was a rare bit of good news, so we’re […]
Help Support HIP Funding and Close the SNAP GAP
Sharing an important message from Worcester County Food Bank’s Director of Advocacy, Liz Sheehan-Castro. The full text of the letter is included below, but here are a few highlights: Please take the time TODAY to ask your representative to support two budget amendments: Fund the Healthy Incentives Program at $8.5 million. This is the amount […]
Food Insecurity – 3 Vulnerable Populations and How SNAP Can Help
Keeping up with what’s going on in the world of food, food security, food justice and food insecurity means we spend a lot of time reading news feeds from various sources. Besides picking up important news and events, scanning the news feeds also gives us a snapshot of trending topics. Over the past few months, […]
The Year In Review – Our Top Hits for 2018
2018 was a busy year — and not an easy one. A look back at our blog over the past year shows a slew of Action Alerts, where we called on you to help us push some important issue to the forefront and help pass — or prevent — food policies that would affect some […]
5 Food Policy Trends to Watch in 2019
2018 was a year for the books. We watched the administration roll back rules that protect the environment, support small farms, address food insecurity and encourage food sovereignty. Food policy advocates spent much of the year putting out dumpster fires — challenging new rules around work requirements, so-called “Harvest Boxes” and immigration. In the midst […]
8 New Year’s Resolutions to Help End Hunger Now
We’re winding down to the end of the 2018, and you know what that means. People are starting to think about their New Year’s resolutiosn for 2019. We’ve got a few suggestions for New Year’s resolutions that will help in the fight against food insecurity and hunger in the community. Some are one-time things you […]