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From the San Francisco County Human Services Agency offers SNAP participants and other low-income families resources with budget-friendly nutrition information. It has many great recipes, tips for healthy living, and much more. Download Research (Link)

This website provides many education tools and resources related to healthy food distribution and nutrition education. The Hub is a product of Feeding America’s collaborative with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the National Dairy Council to promote health while fighting hunger. Download Research (Link)

Our mission is to create practical solutions at the intersection of vulnerability, migration, and health. We envision a world based on health justice and equity, where migration is never an impediment to well-being. Download Research (Link)

FRAC improves the nutrition, health, and well-being of people struggling against poverty-related hunger in the United States through advocacy, partnerships, and by advancing bold and equitable policy solutions. Download Research (Link)

Feeding America is the largest charity working to end hunger in the United States. We partner with food banks, food pantries, and local food programs to bring food to people facing hunger. We advocate for policies that create long-term solutions to hunger. Download Research (Link)

The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is the nation’s first nutrition education program for low-income populations and remains at the forefront of nutrition education efforts to reduce nutrition insecurity of low-income families and youth today. Download Research (Link)

Food security means that people have access, at all times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. At a minimum, this includes: 1) readily available, nutritionally adequate, and safe foods and 2) assured ability to acquire personally acceptable foods in a socially acceptable way. NIFA addresses hunger and food security

USDA’s food distribution programs strengthen the nutrition safety net through the distribution of USDA Foods and other nutrition assistance to children, low-income families, emergency feeding programs, Indian reservations, and the elderly. Commodity Processing Commodity Supplemental Food Program Nutrition Services Incentive Program Schools/Child Nutrition Commodity Programs Emergency Food Assistance Program   Download Research (Link)