Annual impact report
fiscal year 2024 - 2025
Executive Summary
This past year tested our resilience as an organization and as a city—but it also marked a powerful new chapter focused on action, collaboration, and growth. As an immigrant who has experienced fear, uncertainty, and food insecurity firsthand, I carry a deep understanding of what’s at stake. That urgency has guided every step of our work this year. The 2024 presidential elections brought new challenges and uncertainty about how federal shifts would impact our communities and food system initiatives. Those impacts were felt immediately. In early 2025, Los Angeles faced devastating wildfires that displaced families, disrupted livelihoods, and strained local food networks. In response, our team mobilized quickly—activating more than 30 partners through the LA Food Recovery Alliance to move rescued food into the hands of chefs, food pantries, and community organizations feeding those in need.
Amid these crises, we also recognized the importance of deepening our long-term strategies and turning moments of response into opportunities for systemic change. This year, we refined our focus and strengthened collaboration across sectors to ensure our work not only meets immediate needs but builds lasting resilience in every neighborhood.
At the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, we focused our work around three core strategies: catalyzing investment, coordinating rapid response, and connecting across sectors. Together, these efforts are advancing a more resilient and equitable food system.
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Get Involved
We invite individuals, organizations, and advocates to participate in this process. Whether you are a community member, a food worker, a policymaker, or someone passionate about food justice, your voice is essential in shaping policies that impact our local food system. By filling out this intake form, you can express your interest in getting involved, share your expertise, and help us build a more inclusive and representative agenda.
We reside, work, and cultivate food
on unceded Indigenous homelands.
We acknowledge and honor the descendants of the Tongva, Kizh, and Gabrieleño peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands). We pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors), ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.
As part of a greater foodshed, we would also like to pay respect to and honor the Chumash, Tataviam, Serrano, Kitanemuk, ʔíviĨuqaletem, Acjachemen, Payómkawichum, and any other tribal group possibly not mentioned. As a Food Policy Council for Los Angeles we recognize this land acknowledgment is limited and engagement is an ongoing process of learning and accountability. To learn more about these First Nations, visit here.