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WASHINGTON, July 24, 2024 — A significant number of anti-hunger organizations across the U.S. that were surveyed about partnering with health care providers to connect patients to federal nutrition programs emphasized the need for additional investments to reach more patients with health-promoting programs. This is according to a new report, Food as Medicine Survey Findings: How Anti-Hunger Organizations Partner With Health Care Providers to Address Food Insecurity, released today by the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC). 

WASHINGTON, July 9, 2024 — The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) and more than 1,400 national, state, and local organizations representing communities from across the country, are urging Congress to prioritize protecting and strengthening the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the upcoming Farm Bill and any other legislative vehicles moving forward. 

WASHINGTON, July 9, 2024 — The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) today announced it has named a new interim president, Crystal FitzSimons, who has led FRAC’s child nutrition work for 16 years and serves as FRAC’s director of Child Nutrition Programs and Policy. 

WASHINGTON, July 8, 2024 — The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC), Center for Nutrition and Health Impact (the Center, formerly the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition), Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative (IFAI), and UnidosUS, today announced a Request for Application for subgrants for the WIC Community Innovation and Outreach Project (WIC CIAO).

WASHINGTON, June 12, 2024 — FRAC is deeply disappointed by the latest Farm Bill proposal released by Senate Agriculture Committee Ranking Member John Boozman (R-AR), which seeks to cut nearly $30 billion from Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits over the next decade while claiming that no SNAP participants will see a single benefit cut.