Get Involved
You can make a difference by getting involved in supporting policy or education efforts about hunger and how to prevent hunger through sustained food security.
What You Can Do as an Individual?
- Urge policy makers to create long-term solutions to hunger by improving and expanding the federal food and nutrition programs.
- Raise local awareness through connections with community organizations, churches and schools about the status of hunger in the community, and its impact on health and well-being on people of all ages.
- Help others understand that poverty and hunger are not a choice that many have to make and the solutions lie in raising wages, helping people living on fixed incomes and increasing participation in public food programs and increasing access to affordable locally grown food.
What Your Non-Profit Organization Can Do?
- Increase public awareness of the impact of hunger on health, family structure and the ability of children to achieve academic success.
- Increase public awareness about the complexities of problems, including hunger that result from poverty, low wages and rising costs.
- Advocate for policies that bring sustainable, long-term solutions to hunger.
- Work with state agencies to support and promote access to public programs at the local levels.
- Seek opportunities to educate low-income, hungry people about the benefits of public food programs for the children and adults in their families.
- Work with local government and other non-profit groups to start and expand community gardens, co-ops and the creation of CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture) that benefit hungry people through increased access to healthy, locally grown food.
- Strengthen charitable food distribution through local and faith based agencies