. @DrSamPage now announcing $2.6M going to 5 organizations for food security.
$1.3M Operation Food Search
$755K St. Louis Area Food Bank for 45,000 meals through 80 partner agencies
$500K Urban League
$25K Potbangerz - meals for homeless
And funding for Link Markets, fresh food

Operation Food Search: Before the pandemic, 14% county residents experience food insecurity. Now it's 41 percent. "There are many people going to bed hungry or not knowing where they will find their next meals." Provides food to 200 agencies, feeding 200K people every month.

Food Bank currently has 58 drive-thru events scheduled in May alone. Grant will afford 10 more mobile sites, for 40K more meals each week. Also can provide food to 80 community agencies, totaling 85,000 more meals weekly.

Urban League's Michael McMillan they have already given 13K individuals $600K worth of food. Grant will allow to continue and deliver directly to households. "75 percent of people going through our large distribution say they have never been a food line in their entire lives."

FB Live press briefing is over. You can watch agency leaders speak about food insecurity here: https://www.facebook.com/CountyExecutiveSamPage/videos/245720209869881/

. @kenyavaughn wrote a great piece about the Urban League's drive-thru food and toiletries distribution events. http://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/urban-league-serves-region-during-covid-19-crisis-with-series-of-drive-thru-food-toiletries/article_e9530140-8e61-11ea-bc1b-fb69410bf1e1.html

Just got the details for the $2.6M in funding for food security efforts, coming out of STL County's CARES Act $$