unBox stands with Ukraine

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*

unBox Monthly Newsletter Happy Women's Month! This Women's Month, unBox eagerly awaits the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the US Supreme Court. Once confirmed, she will be the first Black woman to serve on the nation's highest court. unBox Stands with Ukraine unBox stands with Ukraine and all those suffering as a result of Russia's violent invasion, and its profound threat to democracy, human rights, and peace worldwide. We support the heroic work of all those working to restore justice and safety in the region. Photo source: World Central Kitchen via Bloomberg Hundreds of organizations are leveraging donations to support Ukrainians' basic needs and safety, including International Medical Corps, Heart to Heart International, World Vision, Project HOPE, and International Relief Teams.  unBox has also been hopeful and inspired to follow the impactful work of World Central Kitchen to rapidly mobilize and deliver 4 million meals to Ukrainians. unBox has signed on to support:   CA SB 1481 (Becker) - Food with Care: Will provide free daily meals to children in child care by enabling all child care providers to qualify for the highest level of reimbursements for the meals they serve.  CA AB 2153 (Arambula) - California Fruit and Vegetable Supplemental Benefits Expansion: Will expand the number of retailers offering supplemental fruit and vegetable benefits to CalFresh (SNAP) participants, and provide sufficient funding for this expansion with one-time, multi-year funding in the state budget. CA SB 878 (Skinner) - Road to Success: Would ensure that every child is offered a free ride to school.  CA SB 854 (Skinner) - HOPE for Children Act: Would support children with parents who have died of COVID-19 and foster youth by establishing CA's first ever baby bond program: HOPE Accounts, and creating a federal survival benefit replacement program for children whose parents have died, but did not work the requisite “countable” months of work to qualify for the federal benefit.    White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, Hunger, and Health: unBox joined the Alliance to End Hunger and over 200 hundred other signatories, calling upon the White House to hold the much-anticipated conference on critical issues of food security and justice, and nutritional equity.  USDA School Meals Public Comment: unBox joined FRAC in expressing our commitment to fighting for more nutritious, accessible school meals for all.  unBox presented at Yale! On March 12, representing unBox, Kyle Winterboer, Angelina Polselli, Isabelle Foster, and Charlie Hoffs presented at Yale's "Reforming America's Food Retail Markets Conference" cohosted by the Thurman Arnold Project, Information Society Project, and Yale Sustainable Food Program.  Kyle, Isa, and Charlie (in-person) and Angie (spiritually present as a virtual co-presenter) celebrating a successful presentation and fun, engaging weekend in a room full of food systems thinkers, researchers, advocates, activists, and decisionmakers The conference will compile our paper and presentation "Exploring Consumer Data Privacy & Retailer Competition within the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Online Purchasing Pilot" into a report, at the request of USDA and President Biden in this Executive Order in July 2021, for which purpose this conference was convened (Section 5,h). The paper is also being considered for publication in the journal Yale Law and Policy Review. Check back at the conference page to find our final paper and presentation recording when they are posted!  Looking for summer internship and volunteer opportunities? Check out: Berkeley Food Institute's Opportunity Guide!   Did you know that April is "Internship Awareness Month"? We love Berkeley Food Institute's opportunity-finder resource: a hub of public, nonprofit, private, and grassroots food systems job opportunities from nutrition, to policy, to medicine, to farming and gardening, to cooking. They list over 200 organizations to reach out to, have a food system opportunities newsletter, and a guide to getting involved in food systems at the government level.   Find opportunities with BFI's guide! Congressional 2022 Appropriations Bill unBox and hundreds of organization in the anti-hunger advocacy community had been rooting for free universal school meals to be included in the 2022 Appropriation Bill... It wasn't. Millions of American families who recieve critical support from school meals are now in the dark about the program's future. As Meighan Lovelace, a single mother of two from Colorado, stated in an ABC story, "without school [meals], I don't really know what right now is going to look like... Access to food is sacred. Let's not fight about it—let's just feed our kids." Despite this setback, it is critical that everyone invested the future of our country's youth, and thier wellness and nutrition, continue to fight the uphill battle for universal free school meals at every upcoming policy opportunity.  Great Reads, Listens, and Watches Food: USDA: Recording of Tom Vilsack outlining USDA's upcoming strategy for improving US Nutrition Security. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack outlined the USDA's new 4 pillars approach to nutrition security action (below). [Sidenote: We were impressed by the vulnerability and authenticity Secretary Vilsack expressed when discussing difficult topics in the world of nutrition regarding his own and and his family's relationship to health and weight. It was the kind of refreshingly genuine and compelling storytelling that we think could strengthen the messaging of more government agencies and programs.] Meaningful Support: Providing nutrition support throughout all stages of life Healthy Food: Connecting all Americans with healthy, safe, affordable food sources Collaborative Action: Developing, translating and enacting nutrition science through partnership Equitable Systems: Prioritizing equity every step of the way FRAC announced that Nancy Dalton and Ellen Buchman are joining the Board of Directors. Buchan is the president of the Opportunity Agenda, and Dalton leads Amazon's Community Partnerships for Underserved Populations. She helps spearhead development, improvement, and outreach for Amazon's online SNAP acceptance program.  Fast Company: This Black-founded startup wants to help you find cheaper groceries The Daily Californian: Study examines food insecurity in California’s higher education system NPR: Millions of children will miss healthy school meals when pandemic relief expires Civil Eats Op-ed: End the Lifetime Ban on SNAP for Felony Drug Convictions What a Surge in Union Organizing Means for Food and Farm Workers A New Approach to Keep Former Foster Youth from Facing Food Insecurity How the Largest Global Meat and Dairy Companies Evade Climate Scrutiny Vegan Fridays for All? More Schools Offer Plant-Based Meals   Beyond the Plate: The New Yorker: At Home with the Families Affected by Texas’s New Anti-Trans Orders Virtual Events April 1, 10 am - 5 pm PST Food Institute Graduate Council at Berkeley: Food Relatives: Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Global Food System April 22, 8:30 am - 1 pm PST: SWIPE Out Hunger: Higher Education and Food Security Summit New Research Singleton, C.R. Improving Urban Food Systems Requires Emphasizing Nutrition Equity in Interventions and Policy Action. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. March 2022 Shen, H., Namdarpour, F., Lin, J. Investigation of Online Grocery Shopping and Delivery Preference Before, During and After COVID-19. Elsevier. June 2022 Sabado-Liwag, M.D., Manalo-Pedro, E., Taggueg, R., Bacong, A.M., Adia, A., Demanarig, D., Sumibcay, J.R., Valderama-Wallace,C., Oronce, C.I.A., Bonus, R., Ponce, N.A. Addressing The Interlocking Impact of Colonialism and Racism on Filipinx/a/o American Health Inequities. Health Affairs. February 2022 Cohen, N. Food Crisis as a Tool for Social Change: Lessons from New York City’s COVID-19 Response. Elsevier. March 2022 Bragg, N., Arshonsky, J. Social Media Engagement and Obesity Rates. Public Health Post. March 2022.  Opportunities Job opportunities Center for Land-Based Learning Apprenticeship Outreach Coordinator - Due March 31 Rogue Valley Farm to School Co-Executive Director of Operations and Development - Due March 31 University of California Nutrition Policy Institute Research Data Analyst - Due April 11 Ecology Center Youth Development Program Manager Agricultural Institute of Marin Mobile Market Weekend Assistant Sierra Harvest  Farm Educator Educational Farm Manager Teen Feed Dinner Program Manager National Center for Farmworker Health Quantitative Research Assistant Training programs and fellowships: Project HOPE: Health Policy Podcast Fellowship – Health Affairs - Due March 31 Funding opportunities Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) - DUE APRIL 1! State & Local Policy Grants: Restaurant Kids’ Meals State & Local Policy Grants: Healthy Food Purchasing and Food Service for Public Facilities Federal Lobbying Grants: Healthy School Meals State & Local Policy Grants: SNAP Incentive Campaigns Community Prioritized Policy Grants: Advancing Health Equity through SNAP Burroughs Wellcome Fund - DUE APRIL 11 Climate Change and Human Health Seed 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.

This email was sent to *|EMAIL|* why did I get this?    unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences *|LIST:ADDRESSLINE|* *|REWARDS|*