Sept at ACCFB: Hunger Action Month and a pantry with a community garden!

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Hunger Action Month

September is Hunger Action Month, a nationwide effort to raise awareness about food insecurity in communities across the country. We encourage you to spread the word and get your friends and family involved in taking action this month and all year long. Make every day count!

Join Us: 2024 Election Season Virtual
Town Hall

MCC Hunger is on the ballot. Join us for a conversation with the Food Bank's Policy & Partnerships team about the importance of elections to our hunger relief efforts, and to learn about key ballot measures that we are supporting.

To learn more, join us at our 2024 Election Season Virtual Town Hall on September 26th from 4-5pm.

Partner Spotlight: Bear Pantry

Khaldoun Allatayfeh has been a Bear Pantry client, volunteer, and then worker in Bear Pantry’s community garden. “The Food Bank has saved us,” he said. “My wife is a Berkeley graduate student, and we have a four-year-old kid. Sometimes all of the food on our table is from the pantry.”

Bear Pantry, a Food Bank partner organization, is a model in the food justice and sustainability movement. Housed in University Village on the U.C. Berkeley campus, the pantry serves about 1,000 students and university service workers. In addition to distributing food from the Food Bank and ACCFB’s food recovery program, the pantry also distributes produce from its own community garden down the road.

“The garden gathers us. We breathe, get a chance to farm, come with the kids, and enjoy. A lot of the people we’ve met, we’ve met here at the pantry,” said Khaldoun.

Savor the Season is almost here!

Join us for a five-star, outdoor event featuring delicious seasonal cuisine, estate wines, and live jazz! And, to top it all off, we curate silent and live auctions with an incredible collection of one-of-a-kind items that are sure to delight. You’ll have a chance to bid on exciting items like a dinner at Chez Panisse with a visit from Alice Waters, a trip to the Maldives, tickets to local sports teams like the Oakland Roots & Oakland Ballers, a tour of Brown Girl Farm, wine country getaways, and more!

Best of all, it's fun you will feel good about: 100% of the proceeds stay local, to help the 1 in 4 neighbors facing food insecurity.