With a historic interruption of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program set to hit Saturday amid the nearly monthlong federal government shutdown, Crankstart Foundation CEO Missy Narula had the idea of sharing the cost with San Francisco of providing food benefits to around 112,000 city residents.

City officials seized on the notion, and together they forged a public-private partnership that is prepared to provide a combined $18.1 million of food money in November for 82,000 city households that normally receive benefits through CalFresh, the name of the state’s SNAP initiative. SNAP used to be called food stamps.

Of the total, $9.1 million will come from The City and $9 million from Crankstart, the family foundation of venture capitalist Michael Moritz and his wife, artist Harriet

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