unBox paper on SNAP online disparities accepted to Health & Place

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unBox Monthly Newsletter unBox is going on Spring Recess! unBox celebrated its 2 year anniversary this month! To celebrate, and to give our team members space to reflect and recharge, we are going on Spring Recess from May 7 to mid-June. We cannot wait to jump back in this summer with you all! After break, what's the next chapter for unBox? Advocating for a better, more sustainable, just, nutritious, and equitable 2023 Farm Bill! Join us this summer as we advocate, activate, research, and organize to influence one of the most important pieces of US food policy. "But wait!" "Where will I get my food policy news when the unBox newsletter goes on Spring Recess?" Okay, no one is saying that because you all get great food news. But, we wanted to share some of our fave sources for news, research updates, events, and more, to check out while we're on break: FRACCivil Eats NOPRENGood Food JobsFood + Tech Connect Berkeley Food InstituteWE ACT for Environmental JusticeThe Fern Tufts ComFood Jobs Nourish CA CHAC (California Hunger Action Council) May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! For those of you who have little kiddos, or who are kiddos at heart: we adore this list of delightful children's books celebrating traditional Asian American and Pacific Islander foodways through colorful stories.  Source: Reading Partners More Upcoming Holidays: May 1-May 2: Eid al-Fitr May 5: Cinco de Mayo May 8: Mother's Day An unBox paper was accepted for publication in Health and Place! "Disparities in SNAP Online Grocery Delivery and Implementation: Lessons Learned from California During the 2020-21 COVID Pandemic" Authors: Isabelle Foster, Samantha Liu, Charlie Hoffs, Christopher LeBoa, Andy Chen, and Dr. Pasquale Rummo We'll let everyone know when it is published! We mapped which California regions do and do not have access to grocery delivery using SNAP in 2020 and 2021. We uncovered severe access gaps for rural communities, revealing urgently-needed SNAP online program and policy improvements needed to ensure all shoppers, especially those in rural areas, have accessible, affordable, safe, nutritious access to healthy food.  Great Reads FiveThirtyEight: Congress Found an Easy Way to Fix Child Poverty. Then it Walked Away. NPR: The child tax credit was a lifeline. Now some families are falling back into poverty USDA: U.S. Department of Agriculture Announces Key Staff Appointments Hays Free Press: Texas announces over $600 million in pandemic food benefits. (The USDA is distributing the fourth round of P-EBT benefits!) FRAC and Feeding America: Farm Bill Primer Investigate Midwest: How Illinois’ ‘fragmented system’ of monitoring pesticide exposure ‘allows individuals to get poisoned over and over without any brakes’.  Civil Eats: How Mexican Public Health Advocates Fought Big Soda and Won. Virtual Events May 20, 10 am PDT:  Feed More Tech Talks - Early Lessons Learned from California's Mandatory Food Donation Policy (All about CA SB 1383!) Actions Share your feedback for the new USDA Dietary Guidelines 2025 - 2030! Learn how to submit a public comment here; USDA is soliciting feedback from now until May 16.  NRDC: Petition Biden and Congress to prioritize climate action. New Research + Data From unBox advisor May Wang! Hannah Malan, Carole Bartolotto, Charles Wilcots, Peter Angelis, Al Ferrone, Chris Wible, Edward Westbrook, Erin Fabris, May C. Wang, Wendelin Slusser, Jennifer A. Jay, and Michael L. Prelip. Increasing the Selection of Low-Carbon Footprint Entrées through the Addition of New Menu Items and a Social Marketing Campaign in University Dining. https://doi.org/10.1086/720450 C. Journal of the Association of Consumer Research. 2022.  USDA. SNAP End-of-Year Report. Jayson L. Lusk and Sam Polzin. Policy opinions revealed in Consumer Food Insights Report. Purdue Center for Food Demand and Sustainability. February 2022. Amelie A. Hecht. Caroline Glagola Dunn, Eliza W. Kinsey, Margaret A. Read, Ronli Levi, Andrea S. Richardson, Erin R. Hager, Hilary K. Seligman. Estimates of the Nutritional Impact of Non-Participation in the National School Lunch Program during COVID-19 School Closures. Nutrients. March 2022. Opportunities Job opportunities Office of the Governor - California Volunteers: College Corps. College Corps Fellows are placed in community-based organizations working in K-12 Education, Climate Action, and Food Insecurity. Fellows earn $10,000, receive ongoing training, and become part of a statewide cohort of young leaders across California. Undergraduate students at any partner campus of the #CaliforniansForAll College Corps are invited to apply. Hunger Free America: Director of Strategic Volunteerism Programs.  Funding opportunities The Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program: Produce Prescription Program - Due June 30 (0 - $500,000 grants) Use this form to submit content for us to add to this monthly newsletter! unBox stands against systemic racism and violence and is striving to become an antiracist organization. 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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