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UPDATE: It's Official! Budget Increases Anti-Hunger Funds

Hunger-Free Pennsylvania

Jul 20, 2016
1 min

UPDATE: It's Official! Budget Increases Anti-Hunger Funds

When we wrote on July 1 to tell you about one of the most significant funding increases in years in our fight against hunger in Pennsylvania, we urged you to keep you fingers and toes crossed as several hurdles remained to really finalize the 2016-17 budget final. Well, it’s now official … and more money is heading for the state’s anti-hunger program. Here it is straight from the Department of Agriculture’s release: The department’s State Food Purchase program will see a $750

Advocacy Update: Hunger Transcends Political Boundaries

Hunger-Free Pennsylvania

May 10, 2016
2 min

Advocacy Update: Hunger Transcends Political Boundaries

Last month, the state’s 2015-16 budget impasse finally came to an end --- more than nine months after it started. But there was little time to celebrate. As quickly as one budget debate ended, a new one began. Legislators and the governor now must begin in earnest to craft and finalize a 2016-17 budget. They have two months to do it. The state’s fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30 each year, and May and June are the most critical months for finding consensus. Despite the

Governor’s Budget Proposal Rejects Funding Increase Request

Hunger-Free Pennsylvania

Feb 4, 2014
2 min

Governor’s Budget Proposal Rejects Funding Increase Request

Today, Governor Corbett's proposed budget was announced and effectively flat-funds SFPP at $17.338 million. If funding simply kept pace with food prices, the program would need $24.6 million just to break even. We fought for it. You may remember in November (read about it here), we hand-delivered a letter to Governor Corbett signed by 1,240 of Pennsylvania’s hunger relief organizations, religious congregations, student groups, human service agencies and other charitable organ

Hunger-Free Pennsylvania

Nov 8, 2013
2 min

Waiting list for CSFP benefits up 57% over last year

The news keeps getting worse on the anti-hunger front. Demand for a key anti-hunger program that serves low-income and homebound senior citizens continues to grow, with the number of individuals awaiting benefits now more than double what it was at this time last year, new figures show. At the end of October, 3,590 Pennsylvanians were on the waiting list for the federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), which provides life-sustaining meal deliveries and nutrition se