Understanding Childhood Hunger
Solutions to Help Feed Hungry Kids
Share Our Strength works to help feed hungry kids through fundraising events like Taste of the Nation, Great American Bake Sales, and Dine Out for No Kid Hungry
Food events are the cornerstone of Share Our Strength's fundraising efforts. Each year, they engage millions of people across America in Share Our Strength's solution to childhood hunger.
All of them - Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation, Great American Bake Sale, Dine Out for No Kid Hungry (formerly Great American Dine Out), and a growing collection of localized dinners and festivals - raise funds to support Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry Campaign to end childhood hunger in America by 2015.
The campaign provides leadership, raises awareness and advocates for change that will help feed hungry kids in America.
Locally, these funds help Share Our Strength build partnerships that bring together public officials, nonprofits, community and faith-based groups, private funders and businesses to develop a measurable plan that will end childhood hunger in a particular state or city.
Through No Kid Hungry, Share Our Strength also funds the most effective anti-hunger organizations in their work to connect families with the nutritious food they need.
Together, these partnerships and local grants...
...give more kids a healthy start to the day by supporting effective school breakfast programs;
...ensure kids have food at home by helping more eligible families enroll in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps);
...keep hungry kids fed outside of school hours by improving access to afterschool programs that provide snacks or meals, and increasing participation in summer meals programs;...and teach low-income families how to cook healthy, affordable meals through Share Our Strength's Cooking Matters™ program and by funding other nutrition education programs.
Additionally, a portion of funds raised through Taste of the Nation events supports advocacy work and sustainable community development in Haiti, Mexico, El Salvador and Ethiopia.
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