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# unBox is a youth-led organization working to unite and empower young people to fight US food insecurity.
### Active from April 2020 to April 2023, unBox is no longer running programming! But our community—through food systems work and beyond—continues to strive towards a more just and sustainable world.
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### We envision a future where everyone has dignified access to fresh, nutritious, affordable food, and has a seat at the table in building that future.
We connect young people with the tools, training, and networks needed to transform US food policy through research, policy advocacy, and activism. unBox members work with our community-based, policy, and academic partners to support equitable US food systems change at the local, state, and federal level.
# 33 YOUTH FELLOWS
# 14 STATES
# 20 ADVISORS
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  ## SNAP Online
  In March 2020, when COVID-19 began spreading rapidly across the US, it was almost impossible to use SNAP (food stamps) to order groceries online for curbside pick-up or delivery.
  **We worked to help change that.** And we continue to research, advocate, and rally to support the equitable expansion of this program.
  ## Child Nutrition
  1 in 6 US children is food insecure. There are proven solutions to this crisis. School lunches, children’s food benefits, and anti-poverty cash assistance are demonstrated, powerful tools for empowering child food security.
  **We must fight with tool we have to end child hunger in the US.**
  ## Social Service Referrals
  The right social service referral can change a life. However, the online tools designed to provide social workers and individuals with information about social services are often out-of-date, hard to navigate, available only in English, and not mobile-friendly.
  **We are working to help improve social service referral websites because communities deserve better tools, created with them and for them.**
  ## Senior Nutrition
  Honoring, respecting, and supporting our elderly Americans means fighting to ensure none go hungry.
  ## Immigrant Food Security
  Immigrants feed the United States. About 73% of all US farmworkers are immigrants, and 48% are undocumented. In California, 75% of farmworkers are undocumented immigrants, and by some estimates, almost half suffer from food insecurity. (*Image credit: independent artist commission for the CA Food4All Coalition)*
  **The communities that cultivate this land and nourish its fellow residents should not go hungry.**
  ## College Food Security
  38% of college students faced food insecurity in 2020. While COVID-19 has worsened the crisis, many college students faced profound basic needs challenges long before the pandemic.
  **Many of us are students and recent graduates ourselves, and we refuse to accept this.**
  ## Local Food Businesses
  Local BIPOC-owned food businesses help empower community food security, food access, and economic resilience. Discriminatory policies and funding biases nonetheless make it more difficult for BIPOC-owned food entrepreneurs to grow their businesses.
  **We are working to support diverse, local, sustainable food entrepreneurship.**
Are you curious about how you can get involved with food justice work?🤔Look no further! We’ve highlighted some amazing groups in the Bay Area that are working to combat food insecurity in their own community🧡 There are also plenty of great organizations that we weren’t able to fit in, so please feel free to comment and share any additional orgs you think would be great adds! ☀️🧡🥕🍊
Sooo...what even is SNAP?🤔🤔🤔 Swipe through to learn more about the program that’s helping 43 million Americans today!
Here at unBox, we welcome everyone to come take a seat at the table and be catalyzers of change in the fight against hunger🍊🧡 click the link in our bio or visit www.unboxproject.org to join the fam or learn more about what we do!☀️🥕
Wishing everyone a safe and sane post-election week!🙏 Leading up to November 3, we built a map to help Bay Area residents find information on safe early-voting options. Read about how we did it!👉  #electionmapping #unBox
  Tonight! 5:30 pm Pacific/8:30 Eastern on Zoom! Come hungry for change💥 < <
  Are you fed up with our current US food system?? Then you're invited!
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**unBox stands against systemic racism and violence and is striving to become an antiracist organization.**