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Food pantries seek $100M baseline for Community Food Connection; providers warn federal cuts, payment delays imperil services
Summary
Food pantry operators and nonprofit coalitions urged the City Council to baseline Community Food Connection funding at $100 million and create a $20 million emergency food fund, saying federal pauses and proposed SNAP cuts threaten the emergency food infrastructure.
Nonprofits that run food pantries and emergency food networks told the council they are facing rising demand, federal funding uncertainty and contract-payment delays and urged the city to increase and baseline Community Food Connection (CFC) funding.
Requests from providers: Hispanic Federation, Met Council, Catholic Charities, the Coalition for the Homeless, and the Metropolitan Council and other food providers asked the Council to baseline CFC at $100 million and to create a $20 million emergency food fund to fill gaps created by federal pauses and proposed SNAP…
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