A public health department must reduce coverage gaps where eligible families fall through both federal and community safety nets. Which combined policy package best synthesizes feasible measures to reduce these gaps?

• A. Require that every household visit a single central distribution site monthly to receive all benefits rather than using EBT or local pantries, assuming travel and time burdens are negligible for all families.
• B. Improve outreach and harmonize eligibility enrollment between SNAP and WIC, provide federal grants that stabilize community pantry operations (including funding for delivery services), and create interoperable data-sharing to identify underserved neighborhoods—this combines federal standardization with targeted community capacity-building.
• C. Rely solely on ad-hoc volunteer drives and discontinue federal benefit programs because community goodwill will naturally allocate resources to every needy household efficiently without administrative costs.
• D. Eliminate all nonprofit food banks and centralize distribution exclusively through federal warehouses to ensure every household receives identical canned goods without local input, thereby solving all coverage and cultural-appropriateness problems overnight.

Answer: (B)