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Case Study: San Francisco
Food Security Task Force
Creative City-Based Anti-Hunger Strategies
If you don’t know where you’re
going, any road will take you there.
National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference
March 1, 2015
– Cheshire Cat
Teri Olle
Director of Policy & Advocacy, SF-Marin Food Bank
Chair, SF Food Security Task Force
(setting specific goals)
The Task Force established food
security as citywide concern
• Credible
Love the one you’re with.
• Compelling
– Stephen Stills
• Accountable
(working in coalition)
Key elements of the Task Force
 Public advisory body
 Established – by ordinance (2005)
Speak softly, and carry a big
spreadsheet.
 Major public & private entities addressing hunger:
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7 city agencies: Public Health; Human Services; Aging & Adult Services;
Environment; WIC; Children, Youth & their Families; SFUSD
8 community-based organizations: major nonprofit food program
providers
– Pres. Theodore Roosevelt (paraphrased)
 Tasked with advising Board on food security
(analyzing the data)
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We showed the extent of the need
We showed the extent of the need
Number of Meals in Millions
How many meals are needed to feed low‐income San Franciscans? How are these meals provided?
260
239 mil.
240
220
205 mil. 208 mil. 24%
25%
200
180
241 mil.
248 mil.
Total meals needed for low‐income pop.
216 mil. 23%
25%
27%
21%
‘Missing’ meals
Meals funded by non‐
profits/local food assistance programs
160
140
120
Meals funded by federal food assistance programs
100
80
60
Meals paid for through household resources
40
20
0
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Analysis of data
by district
2012
In 2012, 67.8 million meals were ‘missing’
Source: SF-M Food Bank “Missing Meals” Report (2014)
Source: SF Food Security Task Force Report (2013)
We developed a framework
Food Resources
•
Sufficient financial resources to purchase enough nutritious
food (from income, CalFresh, WIC, SSI)
If a tree falls in a work group
meeting, no one will hear it.
Food Access
•
Access to affordable, nutritious and culturally appropriate
foods (from food pantries, meal programs, food retail)
– Stakeholder proverb
Food Consumption
•
Ability to prepare healthy meals and the knowledge of basic
nutrition, safety and cooking (usable kitchens,
nutrition/cooking education)
(making it public)
We showed what it will take to achieve
food security
Board of Supervisor Hearings
• Assessment of Need (November 2013)
To a hammer everything
is a nail.
• Action Plan (April 2014)
– Abraham Maslow
Board Resolutions
• “End food insecurity by 2020”
• End waitlist for home-delivered meals
(appealing to decision-makers)
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We recommended
cost-effective solutions
• Invest in CalFresh (SNAP)
• Low participation - about 50%
• Huge leverage - $3.6M investment = $173M economic
activity
We recommended
cost-effective solutions
• Increase funding for the most vulnerable
• 5,000 additional homebound residents need home-
delivered meals
• 5,000 additional homebound residents need home-
delivered groceries
• 25% participation increase  $43M additional economic activity
• 1,200 additional spots needed for congregate meals
• Targeted inreach could boost participation dramatically
• 9,000 individuals on Medi-Cal – but not CalFresh
• 11,000 kids getting school meals – but not CalFresh
One day in a long-term care facility =
1 year of meals/10 years of groceries
We got results
We got results
• Second highest citywide funding priority by
Mayor’s Budget Address:
supervisors
“Despite an improving economy, hunger
remains a critical problem in San
Francisco…”
• Secured $4.85 million in new money
• ~ $2.3M for CalFresh – targeted inreach & CBO support
• ~ $2.5M for home-delivered meals & groceries, congregate
• $100K for F/V voucher project
I can see Russia from
my house.
– Tina Fey (as Sarah Palin)
(monitoring)
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Questions?
Learn more at:
• www.sfdph.org/foodsecurity
• www.sfmfoodbank.org/advocacy
For more information, email Teri Olle at [email protected]
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