Austin Launches ATX Emergency Food Systems Exchange

NORTH AUSTIN, TX — The City of Austin continues to provide updated resources for the community to access amid the coronavirus, or COVID-19 public health crisis via its website, and includes a community forum dubbed the ATX Emergency Food Systems Exchange, connecting food assistance and volunteers with the people who need them. The forum seeks to support neighbors in accessing food while protecting the health and safety of the community.

This forum seeks to serve:

• Organizations or businesses serving anyone who relies on food pantries, soup kitchens, school lunch programs, or other direct assistance to feed themselves and their families.
• Organizations or businesses serving anyone who qualifies for WIC/SNAP or other food assistance and cannot shop at or find food they need at grocery stores.
• Organizations or businesses serving anyone who is a member of a vulnerable population during COVID-19 (people experiencing homelessness, elderly, disabled, immunocompromised, etc.)
• Organizations or businesses serving anyone who cannot afford to buy essential sustenance.

ATX Emergency Food Systems Exchange includes offers and requests from anyone in the community, individuals, food entrepreneurs, tech, and other sectors and industries. The goal of this tool is to provide easily accessible information for the community and connect them with food sources. To learn more click HERE.