Our Statement Regarding the One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R. 1)
The Budget Reconciliation Bill (OBBB) includes significant cuts to essential programs, creating new difficulties for those we serve. As we learn more and navigate the challenges ahead, our focus remains on serving the community with the strength and resilience that define the central Gulf Coast. Together, we move forward. Please visit this page or follow us on social media to stay up-to-date on advocacy actions.
The Food Bank’s Public Policy Platform
Across the 24 counties Feeding the Gulf Coast serves, more than 384,260 people face hunger. Feeding the Gulf Coast works every day through a network of community partners to provide food to people in need. However, we know that to truly address the causes of hunger, we must strengthen food assistance programs and invest in anti-hunger policies to help ensure no one goes hungry.
Feeding the Gulf Coast operates several Federal Nutrition Programs that help us efficiently utilize available resources to combat hunger. These programs are crucial to our ability to help expand the capacities of our community partners and enable them to serve their communities more effectively. Therefore, the food bank works at the federal, state, and local levels to amplify voices and engage key representatives in driving change and strengthening policies that help eliminate hunger.
Federal Programs We Operate
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): Our SNAP Outreach team continues to see an increase in the number of applicants served. This program has been a lifeline for many people seeking food assistance for the first time. Our team assisted in the submission of 9,000 applications last year.
- Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP): Every month, CSFP equips the food bank to combat senior hunger by providing monthly food boxes of nutritious staples to more than 3,000 low-income seniors, aged 60 and older. CSFP helps combat the poor health conditions often found in seniors experiencing food insecurity.
- The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP): Critical to our ability to provide emergency food assistance along the Gulf Coast, the TEFAP program enabled us to distribute more than 7 million pounds of food through mobile distributions and traditional pantry distributions with approved partners last year.
How You Can Help
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