About Us
Since 1979, Florida Impact has been dedicated to reducing hunger and poverty in Florida. Our mission is to inspire and enlist the people of Florida to secure justice for and with those whose economic rights have not been realized.
We also work to increase access to food programs by conducting aggressive outreach strategies and public policy advocacy.
- Passage of the Willie Ann Glenn (Children's Summer Nutrition) Act, a law to ensure federal summer food sites near all elementary schools in low-income neighborhoods.
- State funding of food stamps for legal immigrants denied them via federal welfare reforms.
- A state mandate to require all of Florida's elementary schools to offer the federal School Breakfast Program. In its first year of implementation, over 50,000 children sat down for the first time to a school breakfast — the overwhelming majority from low-income families.
Now, over a quarter of a million Florida school children participate in this nutrition program each school day.
- A state-funded match for Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) to help public assistance participants with saving for college, purchasing a home, or starting a business.
- Regulation of interest rates charged by the title loan industry, which were previously as high as 264% APR.
- Regulation of the labor pool industry to prevent the exploitation of low-wage workers.
- A law to provide farm workers with the right to know about hazardous chemicals in the workplace.
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