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Total Community Action asks council for $50,000 increase to expand food pantry services
Summary
Total Community Action (TCA), the city's designated anti-poverty agency, told the council it served roughly 19,459 people in the last year through mobile and neighborhood pantries and is requesting an increase from $100,000 to $150,000 so 100% of the funds continue to go directly to food purchases and related demonstrations.
A representative of Total Community Action (TCA) told the council that TCA's food pantry program served 19,459 individuals (about 13,000 households) across targeted neighborhoods this year and leveraged partnerships with Second Harvest, the USDA commodities program and local churches.
TCA said their mobile pantry network currently operates six sites and that pantry funding awarded by the council…
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