On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the ongoing hunger crisis in the United States, which has soared post-COVID.

Marin is not a place where the term “food insecurity” is expected to be raised.

But the reality is that many more local residents than expected face a hardship in providing enough food for their households.

SFGATE interviewed the SF-Marin food bank director and discussed the impending closures and the most essential holiday donations

San Francisco will donate thousands of turkeys to hungry people by Thanksgiving, but tougher times could be ahead for some Bay Area charity organizations as emergency pandemic money starts to dry up.

The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank plans to close outdoor “pop-up” pantries in San Rafael and Mill Valley by June 2025.

A critical lifeline for more than 18,000 San Francisco households will soon come to an end.

The SF-Marin Food Bank has stated its intentions to discontinue its COVID-19 pandemic response programs due to the cessation of federal, state, and local funding. Over the coming two years, emergency Pop-Up Pantries will be phased out as the organization returns to distributing food through its network of community pantries, per the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank news.

The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, which dramatically expanded during the pandemic to meet soaring demand, will scale back some services over the next 20 months due to funding cuts. About 15,000 households in need may lose access to the free produce, dairy, protein and other groceries the food bank provides, while a number of the nonprofit’s 253 workers will lose their jobs.

The SF-Marin Food Bank announced in a sobering 8 a.m. press conference that, by 2025, a majority of the food-distribution services introduced during the pandemic will be closed or reduced, significantly affecting the growing number of hungry households in San Francisco.

The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank said it would be scaling back its pandemic-era assistance and closing all its emergency Pop-Up Pantries by mid-2025.