National Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month Spotlight In honor of Hispanic/Latinx American Heritage Month, we’re shining a spotlight on Oakland’s Fruitvale district. Fruitvale is a bustling center of Latino culture, bringing together immigrants from across Latin America. Spanish is the
It’s with great excitement that we announce Regi Young as Alameda County Community Food Bank’s new Executive Director! On September 7, Regi will formally take over for Suzan Bateson, ACCFB’s fearless leader since 2001. Regi joins
Our CalFresh Outreach Program started almost 20 years ago was primarily staffed by one person named Liz Gomez. Liz worked to ensure that we connected callers with their neighborhood food pantry where they could pick up emergency food right away. She would also help assess program participation in other important nutrition
In this month’s Food for Thought blog we dive into the wild world of our Food Recovery Program (FRP)! Our program connects retailers, who have excess food, with our partner organizations in the community, to make
Produce In case you don’t know this about ACCFB yet, we want to make it clear: We LOVE produce. So much so that back in 2005 we were the first food bank in the country to
