As 2020 creeps to a close, reflections on one of the most brutal years in living memory are rolling in.  The "2020 Year in Review" headlines paint an unmitigatedly grim picture: "With 300,000 COVID-19 deaths and counting, U.S. faces unfathomable loss" "George Floyd, From ‘I Want to Touch the World’ to ‘I Can’t Breathe’" "The record-shattering 2020 hurricane season, explained" >> Read More

Fair Food Nation, you have smashed records: 1,245 donors have come together to raise $112,168 to date, demonstrating the power of grassroots fundraising – but we can't stop there. With only days to go of the CIW's end-of-year fundraising drive, help us get to $120,000 by Dec. 31st! This past spring, the COVID-19 pandemic swept through Immokalee like a tidal >> Read More

[caption id="attachment_33413" align="aligncenter" width="798"] Fair Food Standards Council staff responding to the FFP's 24/7 trilingual complaint line.[/caption] As the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic became clear back in March, the Fair Food Standards Council (FFSC), the independent monitoring body that has meticulously overseen the implementation of the Fair Food Program for more than a decade, braced for impact. The pandemic >> Read More

From the earliest days of the pandemic, the CIW was among the first voices to sound the alarm about the overcrowded housing and dangerous working conditions that the vast majority of the country's 2.5 million farmworkers have faced for generations, and that represented the perfect “superconductor” for the deadly COVID-19 virus.  Their circumstances presented a chilling paradox: Though their labor >> Read More

YOU can help fund and expand the Fair Food Program's unprecedented COVID-19 protections for the women and men putting food on America's tables by donating on Giving Tuesday!  Click here to contribute. By almost any measure, 2020 has been a year without equal in modern history.  The COVID-19 pandemic has taken nearly 1,400,000 souls across the globe, with still several >> Read More