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Supervisors back expanded meal and grocery grants as city braces for CalFresh cuts
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee on Feb. 15 advanced amendments increasing city grants to Meals on Wheels, Project Open Hand, Self Help for the Elderly, Glide Foundation and the San Francisco Marin Food Bank, citing rising food costs and expected reductions in CalFresh emergency allotments.
The Budget & Finance Committee on Feb. 15 recommended that the full Board of Supervisors approve amendments increasing grant funding to several nonprofit nutrition providers to meet sharply rising food demand.
Tiffany Kearney, lead nutritionist at the Department of Disability and Aging Services, outlined changes that would add funds to Meals on Wheels, Project Open Hand and Self Help for the Elderly to deliver additional home-delivered and congregate meals for older adults. "Meals on Wheels serves clients in every district and provides at least two meals a day, seven days a week," Kearney said, and the modification includes a 21‑cent per‑meal increase and $253,000 in infrastructure funds for…
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