United Food Bank is launching a new campaign next month that will help people stay fit while they save their less fortunate neighbors from hunger. Because September is Hunger Action Month, UFB is urging people to join the Fit to Feed Fitness Challenge, which enables participants to meet new health goals while raising funds for 100,000 meals.

Double Up AZ will match every dollar of SNAP benefits spent at an eligible farmers market, up to $20 a day, for an unlimited number of days. The Double Up Food Bucks can then be spent on AZ-grown fruits, herbs and veggies.

The Tier 1 shortage will hit hardest in Arizona, which agreed decades ago to “junior rights” to the river in exchange for federal funding for an aqueduct that delivers water to Phoenix, Tucson and other central parts of the state.

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Metro Phoenix had an eviction problem before the COVID-19 pandemic. Residents in Maricopa County were more than twice as likely to lose a home to eviction than the typical U.S. resident from 2014-2018. On July 31, the final eviction moratorium will expire, and evictions are expected to return to their pre-pandemic pace — if not exceed it.

Fifty-three faith leaders from a diversity of faith traditions in Arizona sent a letter to their Senators urging them to include a path to citizenship through budget reconciliation.

Cindy McCain, who has long used her voice for humanitarian causes worldwide, is President Joe Biden’s pick as the U.S. representative to the United Nations Rome-based Agencies for Food and Agriculture, where she would help combat global hunger.

Governor Doug Ducey has proclaimed June 9, 2021 as Be Connected: Faith Network Day to recognize over 500,000 Arizona service members and veterans, and highlight the role that faith-based communities can play in engaging and promoting opportunities and services to support these highly regarded members in communities statewide.

Arizona will offer a $2,000 Back To Work bonus for eligible workers — with a goal of getting as many Arizonans as possible to rejoin the workforce by Labor Day, September 6, 2021.

Arizonans will soon vote on whether undocumented students living in Arizona can be eligible for in-state tuition after the Arizona House approved Senate Concurrent Resolution 1044 on Monday.

According to a Feeding America pre-pandemic study, 5.3 million older adults are food insecure and often the biggest hurdle towards food security is the lack of information on available help. An interview with Interview with Angie Rodger of Arizona Food Bank Network on SNAP.

Summer 2020 marked the hottest summer on record for Arizona. Maricopa County experienced 53 days of temperatures above 110 degrees or higher and 145 days of 100 degrees or higher. The month of August 2020 marked the hottest month ever recorded in Maricopa County.

In Arizona, lawmakers are … launching what is the most extensive endeavor around the country to look backward and scrutinize the official November results, in which Biden won the state by 10,457 votes.

SCR1011, the Arizona Senate Concurrent Resolution sponsored by Sen. Griffin (R - Dist 14) being heard today in Natural Resources, Energy & Water urges Congress and the President to act on the crisis at the border.

Last year’s CARES Act contained $2 billion for tribal governments, this legislation represents a 900 percent increase and that amount does not include the money for Indian health programs

HB2142 will be heard in the Arizona House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday, January 27, 2021. Your help is needed to urge committee members to vote YES on this important issue.