Alameda County Outreach Profile:

• Alameda County Community Food Bank (ACCFB) is located in Oakland, California, across the Bay from San Francisco.  Alameda County and Oakland are very ethnically integrated urban regions. There are more than 100 languages and dialects spoken in this diverse county. Children are the most vulnerable to hunger in the county with 35% of emergency food recipients reported as children under the age of 18.  While 25% of client households with children report that their children skipped meals due to a lack of food and money in the previous 12 months.  And in 38% of client households with children, a parent, a child, or both experience hunger.

• Since 1985, ACCFB has helped people in need. The food bank is the central clearinghouse for donated food in Alameda County, distributing nearly 12 million pounds of food a year. Through a network of 300 community-based organizations, including food pantries and soup kitchens, the Food Bank provides food assistance to 40,000 people each week, including low-income and working adults, children, the elderly, people with disabilities, abuse survivors, people living with AIDS, and the homeless. In addition to food distribution, the Food Bank educates the community about the causes of hunger and poverty, advocates for policies that would improve the lives of low-income people and operates an emergency food referral hotline for the county 1-800-870-3663 (FOOD).

• In 2000 ACCFB felt that one of he formidable steps in the fight to end childhood
  hunger was participation in the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).  The food bank undertook a campaign to increase the visibility of this vital program in their community. 

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