May at ACCFB: CalFresh Awareness Month + Upcoming Events

Starting the new year with food justice in focus.

January 2026

Your Impact Last Year

Looking back at 2025, all of us at Alameda County Community Food Bank are filled with deep gratitude and hope for this community. We’re proud to share the following highlights of 2025, which only happened thanks to each of you:

An Evening of Racial Healing with Dr. Angela Davis and Ericka Huggins

On January 20, the 10th National Day of Racial Healing, ACCFB was honored to co-host a Justice Conversation with Dr. Angela Davis and Ericka Huggins connecting the roots of the Food Justice movement and legacies of the Black Panther Party to what a future of Food Justice will look like in Alameda County.

It was an evening of hope, gratitude, imagination, inspiration, connection, and reflection, featuring poetry from Jazz Monique Hudson and words from ACCFB’s Executive Director, Regi Young. ACCFB Board members Saleem Shakir-Gilmore and Ruben E. Canedo moderated the conversation with Dr. Angela Davis and Ericka Huggins, guided by the components of our strategic plan: strengthening the core, pushing the bounds, and reimagining and recreating the system.

Thank you to all who attended and made this event possible — we are excited to keep building the future we collectively envision as we partner with the community to end hunger and its root causes in Alameda County.

Honoring Dr. King’s Legacy with a Day of Service

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, ACCFB hosted our annual Day of Service. Over 275 volunteers joined to honor Dr. King’s legacy, sorting over 44,000 pounds of food! Executive Director Regi Young and ACCFB Board member Danielle Coleman spoke at the event, and ACCFB staff shared about the meaningful work that volunteers support including our nutrition program, Food As Medicine, Community Organizing, and more.

Regi led a discussion about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s quote, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” and how despite the challenges we face, we must remain diligent and disciplined to continue moving forward (towards justice) together.

Thank you to all who participated in this joyful and impactful event! We’d love to see you at an upcoming volunteer shift.

A “Day in the Life” on the Volunteer Team

Take a look behind the scenes at a typical day for the Volunteer Team with Yvonne Williams’s “Day in the Life” blog post. Read about how staff collaborate with Lead Volunteers, the Operations Team, volunteer groups, and individual volunteers to ensure that every volunteer experience is positive, memorable, and impactful.

See Food As Medicine in Action

Ever wonder what a Food As Medicine food box looks like? KPIX visited the Food Bank recently to showcase ACCFB’s Food As Medicine program with a tour from Rebecca Murillo, Food As Medicine Program Manager. Through the Food As Medicine Program, the first program of its kind in California, ACCFB provides boxes of medically supportive food to MediCal participants with chronic conditions, billing healthcare for the cost as part of the state’s CalAIM initiative. Watch the video to learn more about this innovative program.