Advocacy
Feeding Northeast Florida serves as the region’s leader in ensuring our neighbors have equitable access to healthy food while also leveraging and bolstering the food system to build sustainable and thriving communities. Our organizational and programmatic priorities reflect the diverse citizens, assets and economic drivers represented in our 12-county service area. Feeding Northeast Florida’s advocacy efforts focus on ways in which we can maximize impact for all our neighbors in need of our services, our partners and all the stakeholders that shape the food system. We pursue a policy agenda responsive to a rapidly changing
Federal Priorities
Feeding Northeast Florida’s 2023 federal advocacy efforts will focus on strengthening programs administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ensure that both food banks and those we serve receive support through funding and legislation.
State Priorities
Feeding Northeast Florida’s 2023 state advocacy efforts will focus on increasing access to and removing barriers for safety net programs administered by the Florida Department of Children and Families to ensure that those we serve receive support through allocated federal funding and legislation.
Local Priorities
Feeding Northeast Florida will continuously utilize current quantitative and qualitative data on hunger and other social determinants including the lived experiences of our neighbors, community stakeholder input and programmatic feedback to focus locally on: