{"id":20421,"date":"2020-06-30T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=20421"},"modified":"2020-09-23T06:35:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T06:35:21","slug":"salesforce-and-eat-learn-play-announce-pilot-program-to-combat-food-insecurity-and-help-families-farms-and-schools-thrive-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/stories\/salesforce-and-eat-learn-play-announce-pilot-program-to-combat-food-insecurity-and-help-families-farms-and-schools-thrive-during-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce and Eat. Learn. Play. Announce Pilot Program to Combat Food Insecurity and Help Families, Farms and Schools Thrive During COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended our food system and magnified already-existing inequalities. Not only has the pandemic amplified food insecurity faced by the students and families who rely on schools for daily meals, it has impacted farms across the country, who are now dealing with excess waste and an unstable supply chain from restaurant closures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To tackle these issues, Salesforce and Eat. Learn. Play.<\/a> today announced a pilot program to bring together these two communities in need\u2014connecting families with fresh food from farms and helping ensure that food does not go to waste. The goal of the pilot is to source more than 300 tons of farm produce from local, minority-owned farms, including excess food that would otherwise go to waste, and deliver over 30,000 boxes of food to low-income families at school pickup sites and home deliveries.<\/p>\n\n\n

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