Berkeley Food Pantry

Greetings from the Berkeley Food Pantry. Please note that we are closed on Labor Day, Monday September 4. For emergency food assistance go to Foodnow.net.

The Berkeley Food Pantry will be closed Friday August 25th. The Berkeley Food Pantry supplies high quality food and necessities to Berkeley and Albany residents in need. Our wonderful volunteers and generous donors keep us going!!!!!

Big News📣 Dharma Galang, our director, will transition into a new position at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. We wish her 🤞 &🙏 her for her dedication to the pantry! Jonas Osmond will step in as interim director for the pantry. We are excited to have him join our team!

🙏to 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 who came to the August 2023 Berkeley Neighborhood Food Project Harvest Day. We collected around 2,000 ⚖️ of 🥫🥫 . A special 👏to Berkeley Cub Scout Pack 30 and two former volunteers for coming out to the event and helping us transport, ⚖️" sort, and store 🥫 #berkeley

Thank you @CalMatters for continuing to bring attention to this crisis. #FoodSecurity

Phil from Eviction Defense Center will be at the Berkeley Food Pantry until 3:30 p. m. today. #evictiondefensecenter #berkeleyfoodpantry

Incarceration affects entire families & can ⬆️ the risk of food insecurity. #CalFresh can help. #ThrivingTransitions

A reminder, the Berkeley Food Pantry is open until 4 p. m. today. #berkeleyfoodpantry

#homedelivery #thankyouvolunteers #berkeleyfoodpantry

Thanks to Urban Adamah @urbanadamah we have beautiful produce to distribute today! #urbanadamah #urbanfarming #berkeleyfoodpantry

"We just don’t have enough jobs that pay enough and have decent benefits." -Mark Robert Rank, a sociology professor at @WashingtonUniv msn.com/en-us/money/pe…

California. Colorado. Maine. Minnesota. New Mexico. Vermont. Michigan. With a signature from the Governor, Massachusetts will become the eighth state to pass School Meals for All, allowing K-12 public school students to eat free starting the upcoming 2023-24 school year.

All kids will eat free at Berkeley Unified this year berkeleyside.org/2023/08/02/ber…

Home deliveries in progress. 🚐🚚 #berkeleyfoodpantry

We ❤️ our volunteers 🙏 #berkeleyfoodpantry #volunteers

Our friends from Filipino Farmers Cooperative from Central CA shared this photo from their trip in the Bay Area today — showcasing their first harvest of 2023 😍🌽🌱🥬🫛💕

The big corporations we work for are getting rich off of our hard work. Meanwhile, we’re stuck trying to make ends meet. #RaiseTheWage

‼️ UPDATE: the deadline has been extended to Aug 18! Take advantage of the extension and call 1-800-887-8230 and access your #PEBT 2.0 benefits!

"it’s so vital that nearly HALF of all babies in the US receive crucial #WIC support—that’s 6.6M participants in total! Yet could be much greater–50% of parents, infants, & children eligible for WIC are not receiving it." commondreams.org/opinion/republ… #WICstrong

"It kind of starts this slow-rolling disaster where we're reverting to the old SNAP rules right at a time where obviously the need around food security is only going up," - Bryce McKibben, senior director of policy and advocacy @TempleUniv 's Hope Center. cbsnews.com/philadelphia/n…