New USDA benefit to help provide food to families with children that have temporarily lost access to free or reduced-price school meals

Haga clic aquí para ver español USDA recently approved a $1 Billion state plan to help some Texas families buy groceries during the COVID-19 health crisis. Households containing children up to 21 years old who received free or low-cost lunch at school this year will be eligible for the new Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) program. Here […]

Increase in need continues for April as ETFB responds to COVID-19 affected families

In April, we continued our emergency response to COVID-19. We provided over 2.4 million meals (which is 42% increase from April 2019!) to East Texas children, families and seniors in need. With support from the Texas Army National Guard, we continued our emergency drive-thru distributions, Senior Box Home Delivery program and provided even more support […]