{"id":33686,"date":"2025-11-03T21:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/33686\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T21:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:52:06","slug":"san-antonio-food-bank-faces-increased-demand-due-to-federal-cuts-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/33686\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Food Bank faces increased demand due to federal cuts, shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tServing 29 counties across Southwest Texas, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safoodbank.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Food Bank<\/a> provides for over 577,000 residents in need each year.<\/p>\n<p>President and CEO Eric Cooper said the nonprofit provides aid to around 120,000 individuals per week.<\/p>\n<p>What residents should know<\/p>\n<p>The food bank helps to nourish the community in <a href=\"https:\/\/safoodbank.org\/our-programs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three different ways<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe frame our work in the three areas that we call food for today, food for tomorrow, and food for a lifetime,\u201d Cooper said.<\/p>\n<p>Food for today allows those in need to go straight to the food bank to get supplies, while food for tomorrow involves long-term food assistance programs.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, food for a lifetime involves indefinite services that assist residents with employment and career development.<\/p>\n<p>Managing the impact<\/p>\n<p>As the United States federal government continues its shutdown, Cooper said that the San Antonio Food Bank may see direct impacts on the <a href=\"https:\/\/safoodbank.org\/our-programs\/benefits-assistance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program<\/a>, or SNAP, program which bank recipients can enroll in.<\/p>\n<p>Although more people in the region may need to receive direct help, Cooper added that furloughed federal workers who make up a portion of San Antonio&#8217;s population may also be in line for assistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s about 189,000 federal workers and government contractors that call San Antonio home,\u201d Cooper said. \u201cThat\u2019s a demographic that if they miss their paychecks [due to the shutdown], they will need food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aside from those workers, around 279,000 Bexar County residents alone rely on SNAP benefits to get regular food, Cooper said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey, too, will need to come and get food from us,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Cooper said the food bank may see an increase in need over the next few months and into the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President and CEO of the San Antonio Food Bank began his tenure with the organization 25 years ago. (Andrew Creelman\/Community Impact)\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/uploads\/images\/2025\/11\/03\/392958.jpg\" class=\"include_body\" onerror=\"this.src=\" width=\"1200\"\/>President and CEO of the San Antonio Food Bank began his tenure with the organization 25 years ago. (Andrew Creelman\/Community Impact)What\u2019s being done<\/p>\n<p>To address this anticipated increase, Cooper said the food bank is ramping up activity to meet the demands of the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just working to try and make sure no one else goes hungry,\u201d Cooper said.<\/p>\n<p>Even when the government reopens, Cooper still anticipates an increase in regional demands due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fns.usda.gov\/snap\/obbb-implementation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new federal provisions<\/a> to the SNAP program.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the San Antonio Food Bank and ways to help, visit their website below.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serving 29 counties across Southwest Texas, the San Antonio Food Bank provides for over 577,000 residents in need&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21428,21424,21422,1857,21423,82,84,83,21425,21426,21427,16834],"class_list":["post-33686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-bexar-county-volunteering-near-me","tag-food-bank-bexar-county","tag-food-bank-san-antonio","tag-government-shutdown","tag-nonprofits-bexar-county","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-snap-program-central-texas","tag-texas-food-bank","tag-texas-nonprofit","tag-volunteering-san-antonio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}