AlamedaCountyCommunityFoodBank

Save the date for Friday, June 5, 2026 for this year's Night On The Town. We're thrilled to be in community with Oakland Museum of California during Friday Nights with OMCA and Off the Grid. Join us to learn and engage with different parts of the Food Bank in a night of community, connection, and fun! Learn more at the link in bio.

HAPPY 510 DAY! Today we’re celebrating with our friends at @accfb by asking our staff and volunteers what they like best about the 510. We also want to hear from you! What do you like best about the 510? Let us know in the comments! P.S. Gold star for whoever knows what song this is! And double gold star if you know where they are from!!! #AlamedaCounty #Oakland #510

We're excited to share with you ACCFB’s first-ever Local Advocacy Priorities agenda! This agenda is a tool for community members and ACCFB in our local advocacy efforts, alongside our state and federal advocacy. By identifying clearly what the community needs and simultaneously strengthening relationships across the different levels of government, we can create and implement legislation that partners with our community to end hunger and its root causes. Check out the agenda at the link in our bio.

It’s almost #CalFreshAwarenessMonth. This May, we’ll be sharing more about the importance of CalFresh and how #CalFreshWorks to help ensure that all of us in Alameda County have the food we need to be nourished and thriving. Applying for CalFresh is easier than you think. Alameda County Social Services Agency and the Food Bank are here to help answer your questions and guide you through the application process. Find out if you and your family qualify for CalFresh. Apply today! Call: 1-877-847-3663 Visit: FoodNow.net. Help us spread awareness about how CalFresh is a vital resource by sharing this information with your community, and using our toolkit at foodnow.net/cfam (Link in bio).

Just a friendly reminder that in these hectic times, you can always volunteer at a food bank. Food banks around the country can always use your help, and if they’re anything like @accfb in Oakland, then they are fun, inspiring, and uplifting places to be. Go to @accfb to learn how to volunteer at the Alameda County Food Bank in Oakland. If you don’t live in Oakland, go to @feedingamerica to learn how to volunteer at your local food bank. ✊🏿❤️

The need for healthy and nourishing food is year round! Join us at Berkeley Public Library, North Branch for a community food drive during the month of May in partnership with the Alameda County Community Food Bank. Drop off your food donation anytime during open hours in the main lobby. Most loved foods: - Ready to eat meals in easy-open cans or pouches - Snacks for kids - Non-perishable fruits (cups, bowls, or cans) - Peanut butter - Cereal - Nutrition/protein bars Please no glass containers, medications, supplements, pharmaceuticals, or soda.

This #VolunteerAppreciationWeek, Annie McShane, ACCFB's Volunteer Engagement Manager reflected on the impact and importance of every single volunteer that's come through our doors: "Volunteer Appreciation Week always gives me a chance to pause and take in the sheer scale (and heart) of what this community makes possible. Over the past year, from last April to now, more than 18,000 volunteers have walked through our warehouse doors. Together, we’ve sorted nearly 7 million pounds of produce and packed 23,583 totes of bagged fresh fruits and vegetables. Whether you gave us one hour or nearly 500, your time mattered. It added up to something extraordinary. I say it all the time, not because it’s catchy but because it’s true: Volunteers make our mission possible. Thank you for everything you do. This week, and every week to come, please know you are appreciated."

This #EarthDay, we're reflecting on how protecting the environment goes hand in hand with spreading joy and nourishing our community. 🌷 🌞 🫛 Our Food Recovery Program helps reduce food waste, lessening the environmental impact of the greenhouse gases released when organics are added to landfills. The program brings added variety and quality in the products distributed to community members, including produce, milk, dairy, meat, shelf-stable foods, and even fresh flowers. “A special touch which I always talk about is the flowers and the plants that come from Trader Joe’s. Our clients don’t expect a dozen roses from a food pantry. People get to pick which one they want — it’s definitely a nice touch," -Candice Elder, Founder and Executive Director of East Oakland Collective, an ACCFB Food Recovery Program partner Pictured: volunteers sort through recovered and donated food at TCV Food Bank + Mobile Pantry in Fremont

Today at #HungerActionDay, ACCFB joined hundreds of anti-hunger advocates in Sacramento to demand that state lawmakers fund food first! 📢Make your voice heard: Send a message to the Governor and your State Legislators today, urging them to respond to the federal cuts by strengthening California’s anti-hunger programs. Link in bio.

In honor of National Volunteer Week, we’re revisiting a memorable moment from this past December. More than 100 @eatlearnplay partners, friends, and co-founders Stephen and Ayesha Curry showed up at the Alameda County Community Food Bank ready to work. In just one hour, volunteers sorted 17,762 pounds of food — nearly 15,000 meals for families across our community. @accfb ’s volunteer manager called it the most productive one-hour shift they’d ever had. Thank you to everyone who rolled up their sleeves that day — and to all who continue to give their time alongside Eat. Learn. Play. to make a difference in Oakland. #NationalVolunteerWeek #EatLearnPlay #AlamedaCountyCommunityFoodBank #Oakland #RealizeTheDream 📹 @charlikayyy

At Justice on the Table, we asked a harder question than usual: not just how to feed people today, but how to reduce the need tomorrow. Across the Tri-Valley and East Bay, food banks and nonprofit partners are doing incredible, necessary work to meet immediate needs. But as Friday’s conversation made clear, food insecurity does not exist in isolation. It is deeply connected to housing affordability, wages, healthcare access, and long-standing systemic barriers—including policies like redlining that continue to shape who has access to resources and opportunity. We are grateful to our keynote speakers sheila Burks and Jared Call, and to our panelists John Bost, Christine Dillman, and Janette Kennedy—along with Regi Young for moderating a thoughtful and candid conversation grounded in both urgency and possibility. Moving forward means holding both truths at once: responding to immediate need while working toward long-term, structural change. Because if we are serious about reducing hunger, we have to be just as serious about addressing its root causes.

Saturday, May 2nd, is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! There will be TONS of free comics, a prize wheel, double Cowl Credits, and of course, our giant FOOD DRIVE benefitting the Alameda County Community Food Bank @accfb ! 🥫❤️🧡💛 So to help you get ready, here are details on how to participate in the Food Drive, and how to get the most free comics and deals! No food donation = 5 free comics Food donations under $50 = 10 free comics Food donations $50 and over = 20 free comics PLUS a voucher for a FREE FLASH TATTOO at @sacredtattoooakland , a BOGO skate rental coupon at @oic_sharksice *, and a coupon for 50% off any combo meal at @worldfamoushotboys !* *while supplies last, so get here early! Door opens at 11am. Please bring non-perishable foods ONLY and NO glass containers! Last year we raised nearly 2,000 POUNDS of food, and we want to see if we can top that number this year! THANK YOU to our neighboring businesses for hooking YOU up with all these sweet deals to help us raise more food donations! Okay, that’s it for now! We’re so excited to spend the day with you!