SNAP benefits increase 25%

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UNBOX BI-WEEKLY NEWSLETTER Happy summer break! We are on recess - getting revved up for fall! - and we will not be meeting tomorrow, nor the next bi-weekly Friday on September 10! There will also be no newsletter on September 9.  We will resume our team calls in the Fall! In the meantime, we will survey community members' availability for an ideal new team call time and cadence. Oh SNAP!  Historic Benefits Increase SNAP benefits have increased over 25%! For America's 42 million SNAP recipients, the average benefit has risen from $121 to $157. Hilary Seligman at UCSF called it "the most important change in the half-century history of the modern program".  Hear unBox advisor Joel Berg discuss the power of SNAP on MSNBC ("It's the opposite of a welfare program. It's an American strength program") and listen to reporter Tiffany Cross and AmeriCorp VISTA member Clara DeHart share their own or their family's experiences on SNAP. Stay plugged in: Good News + Great Reads: unBox advisor Christina Hecht and her colleagues Ashley Jowell and Anisha Patel published a groundbreaking paper in Public Health Nutrition: "Mitigating childhood food insecurity during COVID-19: a qualitative study of how school districts in California’s San Joaquin Valley responded to growing needs". The paper describes the work of a community-academic partnership (Stanford, Nutrition Policy Institute, Cultiva La Salud, and the Dolores Huerta Foundation) to understand barriers and facilitators to school meals in CA’s Central Valley during the pandemic, from the point of view of parents and school districts. Ashley Jowell received the United States Public Health Service 2021 Excellence in Public Health Award for her leadership on this research! New York Times: The Bay Area's Hunger Problem USDA: USDA Invests $69 Million to Support Critical Food and Nutrition Security Needs CalMatters: Colleges rush to sign students up for food stamps, as pandemic rules make more eligible Urban Institute: State-by-State Guide to the 2020–21 Pandemic EBT Program Civil Eats: Meet the Black Women Driving New Ag Policy Civil Eats: Op-ed: It Takes More than Food to Fight Hunger Civil Eats: Farm to School Programs Are Finally Making Inroads on Capitol Hill Brookings Institute: Beyond ‘food deserts’: America needs a new approach to mapping food insecurity Politico: Round one of child tax credit payments slashed hunger rates, U.S. data shows The Verge: The farmers market is moving online Events: September 23: United Nations Food Systems Summit September 22, 10 am - 3:00 pm PST: The Right to Heal: Centering Mental Health Multi-Racial Equity in California hosted by the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network Duke World Food Policy Center (recorded lecture from yesterday): Examining Whiteness in Food Systems Job Opportunities: Stupski Foundation - Remote Intern. The Stupski Foundation invests in strategies that will address some of the Bay Area’s and Hawai‘i’s biggest challenges so one day everyone can benefit from the wealth of opportunities and resources in the places we call home. Apply to intern with Stupski by September 13! American Public Health Association - Multimedia Communications Fellow. Apply by September 3! Climate Mobilization Project - National Organizer. Apply by September 20! **** In community, The unBox Team unBox stands against systemic racism and violence and is striving to become an antiracist organization. Invite others to the Bi-Weekly unBox Call Want to learn more & get involved? Get unBox'ed! Thanks for being part of the unBox team :) Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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