unBox advisor Sienna Rohrer presents on CalFresh outreach at Feeding San Diego

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JOIN TOMORROW'S UNBOX TEAM CALL! and explore our BI-WEEKLY NEWSLETTER Happy Thursday! Tomorrow, we'll meet for our bi-weekly unBox Team Call at 9 am PST/12 pm EST. Click this link to add the bi-weekly invitation to your calendar or join directly using this Zoom link (PW: 278840). Tomorrow's Call Agenda:  unBox's Policy Updates + Action Items FEATURED PRESENTATION: Sienna Rohrer, CalFresh Coordinator at Feeding San Diego and former UCLA CalFresh Initiative Coordinator, is presenting to unBox! Sienna will share insights from her experiences helping both students and local residents discover, apply for, and use SNAP, and lays out policy recommendations for program changes that could better support clients’ needs! CEO of Hunger Free America Joel Berg's Policy Run-Down Advisor updates, unBox project updates, announcements unBox Team Spotlights: Tonight at 6:30 pm PST! Charlie Hoffs joins a Data4Good panel on "Food Scarcity and Equity", alongside DataKind SF Advisor Hope Miranda, and LA Food Policy Council Executive Director Christine Tran!  Tonight at 8:00 pm PST! Deeya Viradia presents BayAreaCommunity.org at Code for San Jose's Inclusive Product Week! unBox mobilized for SNAP into Action Week, urging our reps to support HR 1919 (The EATS Act of 2021) and college student SNAP access. unBox is advocating for CA SB 364 alongside our partners at the Center for Ecoliteracy! Policy Spotlight - CA SB 364: The issue: Before COVID-19, over two million CA children were experiencing food insecurity. Now, rates have skyrocketed, hitting communities of color the hardest, with Black and Latinx families with children reporting food insecurity twice that of white households. The USDA's free school meals will expire after the 2021-22 school year. The bill: CA Senator Nancy Skinner’s “Free School Meals for All Act of 2021” could revolutionize school food. The bill would: permanently provide free school meals to all CA K-12 students support school districts in providing freshly prepared meals using CA ingredients provide EBT benefits during school breaks and disasters Michael Loccisano/Getty Images The action: Join unBox and more than 180 organizations to support the Free School Meals for All Act of 2021: Part of an org? Support School Meals for All in the California budget and include your organization as a supporter, and join the growing Coalition! An engaged citizen? Bump the campaign on social media and stay tuned for actions here! Stay plugged in: Read, Listen, and Watch: C-SPAN: unBox advisor and CEO of Hunger Free America Joel Berg explores the history of federal food policy and today's top anti-hunger priorities. The Guardian: "Meet the workers who put food on America’s tables – but can’t afford groceries" + ACTION ITEM: Mobilize on legislation that would unlock gateways to citizenship for farm workers. FRAC: Learn how the American Families Plan empowers child nutrition. LA Times: Follow farmer and founder Jamiah Hargins' journey to transform equitable, sustainable food access in LA through microfarms. Bloomberg: Read about Biden's plans to increase SNAP. NPR: Explore the newest Senate bill fighting college student food insecurity. CA Legislature: A new college SNAP bill! CA AB 543 would require CA Community Colleges and California State University, and request the UCs, provide information about CalFresh to all incoming students as part of campus orientation. Job Opportunities Bilingual in Hmong, Lao, or Khmer? Contribute your incredible skills to help SEA community members in Merced and Fresno, CA access culturally-relevant healthcare resources! Serve for a year with AmeriCorps and the Fresno Center, through the Access to Cultural Healthcare Program. Read more here and contact paohoua.lee@fresnocenter.org with questions! Actions CA legislative leaders and the Governor are making final decisions about the state budget. Make Food4All - which would end the unjust immigrant exclusion in CalFresh (SNAP) by expanding eligibility in the California Food Assistance Program (CFAP) to all immigrants who can't participate in CalFresh solely due to their immigration status - a top priority. Call and email your representatives! Use the FRAC Action Network to email your Members of Congress, urging support of the Summer Meals Act of 2021 and Access to Healthy Food for Young Children Act.   As always, we invite you to join tomorrow's Bi-weekly Friday Team Call, from 9 - 10 AM PT/ 12 - 1 PM ET. Join here: Join via Zoom (Password: 278840) Or call in via: +1 833 302 1536 (US, Canada, Caribbean Toll Free) Meeting ID: 957 7481 8469; Password: 278840 **** In community, The unBox Team unBox is an antiracist organization that stands against systemic racism and violence. 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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