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Community groups urge legislature to avert 'Promise Neighborhoods' and diaper‑bank funding cliff; food banks press for Cal Food restoration
Summary
Nonprofit and local‑partner witnesses told the Senate subcommittee that state investments in Promise Neighborhoods, diaper banks and the Cal Food program are expiring and that losing those funds would cut services to hundreds of thousands of Californians and risk local jobs and partnerships.
A broad coalition of nonprofit leaders, food‑bank executives and Promise Neighborhood coordinators urged the Senate Budget Subcommittee 3 to shore up several expiring state investments that they said support cradle‑to‑career services, diapers for families in need, and purchases of California‑grown food for local distributions.
Jose Midelez, speaking for SBCS Corporation and Promise Neighborhood initiatives in San Diego County, asked the subcommittee to prioritize $17,500,000 in one‑time funding to prevent a funding cliff for Promise Neighborhoods that the witnesses said would abruptly end services for more than 130,000 children and families and eliminate about 55…
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