Nourishing Change is a space to share critical thoughts around the systemic change that needs to happen to end hunger and transform the emergency food system. 

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November 2018

• The Power of Narrative Change: From Charity to Social Justice
• Partner Talk: Dismantling Narratives Around Hunger
• Try Out these Questions for Discussion in Your Organization
• What We’re Reading
• Resources
• Take Action!

February 2018

• The Power of Narrative Change: From Charity to Social Justice
• WhyHunger Narrative Change Snapshot Results
• Try Out these Questions for Discussion in Your Organization
• Partner Talk: The Importance of Narrative Change
• What We’re Reading
• Resources

November 2017

• Intersectionality and the Right to Food
• Partner Talk: Let’s Talk about Intersectionality
• Organizations to learn from & connect with
• Resources

August 2017

• A Healthy Nation and the Right to Food
• Food Desert vs. Food Apartheid: Structural Racism and Defining the Real Problem of Food Access
• Housing Instability and Food Security: The Role of Advocacy
• Veggie Buses: Food Access on the Move
• Partner Talk on Hunger and Health
• Resources

May 2017

February 2017

• Announcing..The New and Re-Imagined Nourishing Change Newsletter!
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• Sustainability

December 2016

• 2016 Year In Review
• Fight for $15 has brought $62 billion in raises and counting to underpaid workers
• Obesity and Hunger Are Twin Crises
• Maryland Grown Series
• Help Update the Find Food Database

November 2016

• 31st Annual Hungerthon Campaign Kicks Off
• Stand with Standing Rock
• School Breakfast At Half Century.
• Connecting Hunger and Health in Brooklyn & Beyond
• Food Workers Scramble to Put Food on Their Tables
• Report: Hunger on Campus
• Help Update the Find Food Database

October 2016

• What’s wrong with the way we calculate poverty in the United States?
• Where do poverty myths come from?
• The States and Stakes of Poverty In The U.S.A
• Poverty Is a Product of the Institutions We Have in Society
• The Geography of U.S. Inequality
• Government Food Programs Can Actually Help Poor Families Eat Healthier
• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality
• Report: Income inequality in the U.S. by state, metropolitan area, and county
• The High Cost of Being Poor in the U.S.
• Report: Food Hardship in America: Households with Children Especially Hard Hit
• “Busted: America’s Poverty Myths”, a new series from On the Media

September 2016

• Importance of addressing the Food System in Politics
• Vote to End Hunger
• Plate of the Union
• “Where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Land on Food and Farming Issues”
• “Why Have the Presidential Candidates Ignored America’s Food Issues?”
• “The Presidential Candidates Still Aren’t Talking About Our Food Supply”
• “Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Food”
• Representative McGovern’s attention to hunger
• HeadCount partners with WhyHunger
• How to Vote in Every State
• Report: The Impact of a $15 Minimum Wage on Hunger in America
• Help Update the Find Food Database

August 2016

• Will online ordering benefit SNAP recipients?
• More access to food assistance for drug felons
• “Special Report: Hunger in Venezuela? A Look Beyond the Spin”
• “Urgent farming support needed amid rampant food insecurity in parts of north-east Nigeria”
• The Movement for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom & Justice, including the right to healthy food and water
• “Why This Food Bank is Turning Away Junk Food”
• “Twenty Years After Welfare Reform: Reflections and Recommendations from Those Who Were There”
• Report: Making Food Systems Part of Your Community Health Needs

July 2016

• Choosing healthy food over junk food?
• What does the United States GMO Bill mean?
• 2016 World Social Forum: Another World Is Needed, Together It’s Possible!
• “Food, Farming & the 2016 Election: A Conversation with Marion Nestle”
• “2015 Was a Deadly Year for Environmental Activists”
• Report: From Uniformity to Diversity: A paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological practices
• UCSC Farm & Garden Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture

June 2016

• Twitter Chat: Summer Meals Essential to Kids’ Well-Being
• Be a Rock Star- Support Summer Meals for Kids
• “Ending Childhood Hunger in the Summer Is A Snap”
• Voter Turnout Matters to our Nation’s Food Policy
• Hundreds of Thousands to Lose Their SNAP Benefits
• “Race and Corporate Power in the US Food System: Examining the Farm Bill”
• “Stop Trying To Solve Hunger with Corporate Food Waste”
• New Community Eligibility Database for the 2016-2017 school year
• “Boosting SNAP Benefits Would Improve Diets of Low-Income of Households”
• Report: Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation
• The SNAP-Ed Library

May 2016

• Improving Child Nutrition and Education?
• The Paris Agreement Does Not Go Far Enough
• Food Justice Voices: What Ferguson Means for the Food Justice Movement: Issue 5
• The Good Food Now Campaign
• “Why US-Cuba Relations Won’t End Cuba’s Alternative Agriculture Movement”
• Report: A Shared Sentence: The Devastating Toll of Parental Incarceration on Kids, Families and Communities
• Journal: Labor in the food system, from Farm to Table
• Report: Kids on the Frontline: How pesticides are undermining the health of rural children
• Real Food Films Winners

April 2016

• Are new laws that increase food insecurity being enacted?
• Ending Childhood Hunger In The Summer Is A SNAP
• “USDA rules would increase food stamp access to healthy foods”
• The Grim Reason Equal Pay Day Is Held On April 12″
• 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge
• Report: Community Eligibility Adoption Rises for the 2015-2016 School Year
• Racial Justice Trainings

March 2016

• Reflections on the 2016 National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference: Political Will Required to End Hunger
• A Health Diet to Fight Lead Exposure
• The Campaign for Fair Food announces National Boycott of Wendy’s
• “Huge Victory: Senate Rejects the DARK Act”
• “The Concentration of Poverty in American Schools”
• “The Black Panther: A Food Justice Story”
• Food First’s series on “Dismantling Racism in the Food System”
• Periodical: “Food Insecurity among Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylees”
• Report: “Beyond The Hashtags: #Ferguson, #BlackLivesMatter, and the online struggle for offline justice”

February 2016

• Introducing WhyHunger’s New Texting Service to Find Food
• What I Learned From My Mom about Stigma, The Food System and Hope
• Webinar: Tackling Hunger through Organizing & Advocacy
• What the Media is Getting Wrong about the SNAP 3-Month Time Limit
• Closing the Hunger Gap Request for Proposals for 2017
• Religion, the Environment and how it affects Indigenous Communities
• “The Hidden Hunger on College Campuses”
• “Our economy for the 1% is bad news for most Americans, but particularly Americans of color”
• Exploring Stories of Innovation series
• Report: Fixing Food: Fresh Solutions from Five U.S. Cities

January 2016

• Special Report: America’s Food Banks Say Charity Won’t End Hunger
• Pediatricians Are Screening for Hunger
• Food Justice Voices: What Ferguson Means for the Food Justice Movement: Issue 2
• Unclean water affecting those most food insecure in Flint, MI
• Oh SNAP!
• Black Farmers in the Organic Movement
• Agricultural Apartheid is Alive and Well in South Africa: 14 Million People are Hungry
• Webinar on FEAST (Food, Education, Agriculture Solutions Together)
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans for 2015-2020
• Report: Freedom from Hunger: An Achievable Goal for the United States of America
• Annual Adjustment to Summer Meals Reimbursement Rates

December 2015

• COP 21: Climate Justice is Social Justice
• A Path Forward: Innovations at the Intersection of Hunger & Health Guide
• “Counting on Agroecology: Why We Should Invest More in the Transition to Sustainable Agriculture”
• Report: The Nourishing Effect: Ending Hunger, Improving Health, Reducing Inequality
• Report: Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System Assessment
• Report: Long-Term Benefits of the Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
• Hunger Volunteer Connection
• 2016 John Kinsman Beginning Farmer Food Sovereignty Prize

November 2015

• WhyHunger’s 30th Hungerthon Campaign Kicks Off
• A Path Forward: Innovations at the Intersection of Hunger & Health Guide
• What’s the Harm in Drug Testing Welfare Recipients?
• The Street Vendor Project & the Lift the Caps Campaign
• Transforming Food Access Summit: Accelerating Affordability with Nutrition Incentives
• Changing The Food Chain: An Action Map For Food Chain Workers & Organizations
• Food Banks as Partners in Health Promotion: Creating Connections for Client & Community Health Report
• The US Farm Bill: Corporate Power and Structural Racialization in the US Food System Report

October 2015

• Right to Food and Nutrition Watch: Peoples’ Nutrition Is Not a Business
• Food is a Right, Not an Act of Charity
• Building a National Agenda for Black Food and Land
• Rise Up! Organizing in Emergency Food Programs Guide
• Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD)
• Amp Your Good’s Real Food Drive Campaign
• Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (FINI) Grant Program
• Stephen J. Brady Stop Hunger Scholarships
• Help Update the Find Food Database
• Hungerthon 2015

September 2015

• Rise Up! Organizing in Emergency Food Programs Guide
• Food Justice Voices: What Ferguson Means for the Food Justice Movement: Issue 1
• Webinar: Leveraging Healthcare Funding to Build Healthier Communities
• Webinar: Basic Income-Giving Canadians a Solid Floor to Stand On
• Black U.S. Farmers, Honduran Afro-Indigenous Share Food Sovereignty Prize
• “Rebooting Food and Community in New Orleans After Katrina”
• “School Food: It’s a Challenge and an Opportunity”
• “Is Pope Francis a Radical?”
• Closing The Hunger Gap

August 2015

• Rooted in Community [RIC] Hosts its 17th Annual Youth Leadership Summit
• Fight For 15: Next Steps
• Report Back on the Spanish Democratic Revolution
• The Healthy Food Bank Hub
• Are Hospital Farms the Next Big Thing in Healthcare Reform?
• The Impact of Racism on the Health and Well-Being of the Nation: A Webinar Series by APHA
• “Temptation at Checkout: The Food Industry’s Sneaky Strategy for Selling More” Report

July 2015

• Youth Food Justice Zine
• The Right to Food: Power, Policy, and Politics in the 21st Century
• How to Reclaim The “Commons” at the US Social Forum
• Register for the Closing The Hunger Gap Conference
• Building a Community of Practice Around Hunger and Health
• Is Waste Really the Answer?
• Friends of the Earth Releases “Spinning Food” Report
• FRAC’s “Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation” Report
• Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and SNAP Employment and Training Webinar
• Whole Measures for Community Food Projects Webinar
• Help Update the Find Food Database

June 2015

• Social Movement Delegation to Spain
• Scholarships for Closing the Hunger Gap Conference
• Come to the Table Summit
• Testimony to the National Commission on Hunger in the US
• Summer Food Service Program 2015
• New Report Debunks Walmart’s Claims of Sustainability and Fairness in Its Food Supply Chain
• Logic Models as a Comprehensive Tool for Attaining Programmatic Success

May 2015

• Who Banks on Food Banks?
• New Series! WhyHunger Farmer Profiles
• Poverty, Trauma and Resilience
• Community Food Projects: Planning & Community Engagement Strategies
• How Hungry is America? Report
• WhyHunger Chapin Awards Gala
• Help Update the Find Food Database

April 2015

• WhyHunger Launches Agroecology Publication
• How Can the Right to Food Inform Emergency Food in the US? Webinar Posted
• Help Update the Find Food Database
• USDA Promotes Healthy Recipes
• Social Justice For Lunch
• Specialty Food Foundation Grant Application

March 2015

• Webinar: How Can the Right to Food Inform Emergency Food?
• Hunger and Health at the National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference
• Chant Down Babylon: Building Relationship, Leadership and Power in the Food Justice Movement
• Call for Submissions: Youth Food Justice Zine
• The Maya Wiley Fellowship Program

February 2015

• Closing the Hunger Gap Conference Now Accepting Workshop Session Proposals
• Surplus and Suffering: Book Review of First World Hunger Revisited
• Incentivizing Food Waste
• Webinar: How Can the Right to Food Inform Emergency Food in the US?
• Race & Ethnicity Matter: Understanding Childhood Obesity through the Lens of Health Equity & Justice
• The Importance of Nonprofit Hospitals

January 2015

• WhyHunger Announces New Executive Director
• Closing the Hunger Gap Conference Now Accepting Workshop Session Proposals
• Hunger Is Provides $1.3 Million in National Grants
• A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System
• Race & Ethnicity Matter: Understanding Childhood Obesity through the Lens of Health Equity & Justice
• Right to Food and Nutrition Watch
• 4 Innovative Community Food Projects Empowering Low-Income Residents
• Is Faith Necessary for Social Justice?
• 2015 Summer Meals Webinar Series
• SNAP Resources
• Crowdfunding with Barnraiser

December 2014

• Name Change: Nourish Network for the Right to Food
• Stories from the WhyHunger Hotline: Searching for Healthier Food Options
• Hunger and Medication Underuse
• What We’re Reading Now: What Ferguson Can Teach the Food Movement
• Agroecological Approaches to Poverty, Migration and Landlessness
• 2014 U.S. Conference of Mayors Survey on Hunger and Homelessness

November 2014

• Stories from the Hotline: Starting Over
• Join Us for Hungerthon 2014!
• In New Jersey, Food Changes Lives
• Food as Medicine
• Technical assistance for Community Food Project applicants and grantees

October 2014

• Survey: Emergency Food Providers and Advocacy
• Closing the Hunger Gap: Cultivating Food Justice
• Why Wages Matter in the Fight Against Hunger
• Nutrition Assistance In Farmers Markets: Understanding the Shopping Patterns of SNAP Participants
• Healthy Incentives Pilot: Final Evalution Report
• WhyHunger’s Community Learning Project
• Letters From Our Readers

September 2014

• Survey– Moving Beyond Charity: Who’s at the Table and What’s on the Table
• WhyHunger’s Community Learning Project
• What We’re Reading Now: Racial Justice
• Help for Seniors and People with Disabilities through SNAP’s Excess Medical Expense Deduction
• National Hunger Data Released: WhyHunger Calls for Long-Term Change
• SNAP Employment and Training Program

August 2014

• What We’re Reading Now: Three Steps to Solve Poverty
• WhyHunger Launches Storytelling Site
• Race and the Food System Reports

July 2014

• WhyHunger’s Community Learning Project
• Community Voices
• Under the Mango Tree: New Documentary
• Why Movement Building is Necessary in the Fight Against Hunger

June 2014

• Bruce Springsteen Kicks Off Summer Meals Rock For Kids Campaign with WhyHunger
• Beyond Bread: Healthy Food Sourcing in Emergency Food Programs
• Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/day
• Senior Hunger on the Rise in America: Annual Report

May 2014

• WhyHunger Launches Beyond Bread
• WhyHunger Launches New Online Resource
• Where Do SNAP Dollars Go?
• Map the Meal Gap Report

April 2014

• Summer Meals App: Range
• Closing the Hunger Gap Report
• Hunger and Health: Access to Good Food as Preventive Medicine
• College and University Food Bank Alliance
• School Grants for Healthy Kids

March 2014

• New Study Reveals Hunger Makes Seniors Sick 
• LGBT People are Disproportionately Food Insecure
• Peer-to-Peer Learning: Nourishing Connections
• Getting to Grocery: Tools for Attracting Healthy Food Retail to Underserved Neighborhoods
• Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life and Times of Katrina Gilbert
• Hunger Seder
• Lenten Resource: 40 Days for Food Justice

February 2014

• Community Building in Austin (site visits to The Sustainable Food Center, Mobile Loaves and Fishes, and the One World Everybody Eats Summit)
• Gearing up for Summer Meals
• Oregon Food Bank’s Community Food Systems Presentation
• Let’s Cook Healthy School Meals Cookbook from Peoject Bread
• The National Diaper Bank Network
• Summer Meals Grants

January 2014

• Shriver Report on Financial Insecurity Among American Women and Children
• Vermont FEED New School Cookbook
• Doctors Say Cutting Food Stamps Could Backfire
• US Conference of Mayors Hunger & Homelessness Report

December 2013

• Ten Ways to Help End Hunger
• Millions Struggle to Eat While Congress Considers More SNAP Cuts
• The Ingredients for Change: Elijah’s Promise
• Healthy Food Donation Initiative Resources
• The Healthy Food Financing Handbook
• Study Shows Strong Nutrition Education Can Lead to Healthier Food Choices by SNAP Recipients

November 2013

• “The Fundraising Letter I’d Like to Receive” by Mark Winne 
• Beyond Emergency Food: Thoughts from Both Sides of the Border
• EatFresh: Healthy Living on a Budget
• Community Impact Analysis: SNAP Cuts by County and State
• Healthy Food Bank Hub
• Edible Education Resources from the Edible Schoolyard Project

October 2013

• Building Resilience After a Hurricane: The Shore Soup Project and Rockaway Rescue Alliance
• What We’re Reading Now: The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement by Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis 
• Closing the Hunger Gap Conference Materials: Information and Presentations
• Amplifying Social Media: Thunderclap
• FoodBank Manager Database Software
• SuperFood Drive: PDF Resources for Hosting a Healthy Food Drive

September 2013

• Roots and Remedies Gathering
• What We’re Reading Now: Eat, Drink, Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics by Marion Nestle
• Share Our Strength – Put School Breakfast on the Map
• New Organizing Institute Tip of the Day
• USDA Report Shows No Change in Levels of Food Insecurity
• Grassroots Fundraising Tips and Other Resources

August 2013

• SNAP Advocacy Resource Roundup, including SNAP Myths and 1 in 24 Bags of Food Infographic
• The Pod Knowledge Exchange, Community Food Centres Canada’s Online Learning Network
• Food and Nutrition Coalition Launches New Website: MyFNC.org
• Wage and Income Inequality Interactive Website from the Economic Policy Institute
• Ten Tips Nutrition Education Materials
• USDA FNCS Recipe Box – Hundreds of Low-Cost Recipes in One Location

July 2013

• High in the Sky: Rooftop Farming in Hell’s Kitchen
• A History of the Emergency Food in the US Prezi
• Sesame Workshop Educational Toolkits: Food for Thought: Healthy Eating on a Budget and Healthy Habits for Life

June 2013

• A History of the Emergency Food in the US Prezi
• 2013 Harry Chapin Self-Reliance Award Winners Video
• World Hunger Fact Sheet
• Nourishing Change: Fulfilling the Right to Food in the United States, a report from the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at the NYU School of Law
• Materials from the California Association of Food Banks Conference

May 2013

• Video of Food Pantry Volunteers Union Singing “50 Ways to Close the Food Bank”
• Filemaker Bento Client Data Management Software
• Bridges Out of Poverty Training to Address and Reduce Poverty in a Comprehensive Way

April 2013

• National Helping Individuals with Criminal Records Re-Enter Through Employment (H.I.R.E.) Network
• Share Our Strength Summer Meals Survey Findings
• Facilitating Change in the Food Justice Movement – Recommendations for Grassroots Solutions
• Evaluation of “Healthy Options, Healthy Meals Initiative,” a collaboration among MAZON, Kaiser Permanente, the Atkins Center, and 12 Food Banks
• What We’re Reading Now: Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss

March 2013

• Food Sovereignty for All: Overhauling the Food System with Faith-Based Initiatives
• Come to the Table: How People of Faith Can Relieve Hunger and Sustain Local Farms in North Carolina
• Race and the Food System Food Security Learning Center Topic
• The Directors of A Place at the Table on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart
• Fighting Hunger in the Capital: DC Central Kitchen and Capital Area Food Bank

February 2013

• SNAP and Public Health: The Role of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Improving the Health and Well-Being of Americans, FRAC
• Best Practices in Gardening and Mental Health Module from Community Food Centres Canada
• National Resource Center on Nutrition and Aging Online Resource Library
• Supporting Restaurant Workers
• Reducing Wait Times in NYC

January 2013

• Fighting Hunger or Causing Hunger: A Mid-term Look at Wal-Mart’s $2 Billion Commitment by Andy Fisher
• Nutrition & Wellness Tips for Young Children: Provider Handbook for the Child and Adult Care Food Program
• Fighting Hunger Through Health Care: a Seamless Solution from Share Our Strength
• Nutrition Education for Improved Health – Case Study from Share Our Strength

December 2012

• What We’re Reading Now: Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It) by Robert Lupton
• Rotary First Harvest Produce Recovery Resource Guide
• Georgia Avenue Food Cooperative Video
• The Road to Shared Prosperity, data and stories about human needs programs from Half in Ten

November 2012

• Good Samaritan Food Donations Act Fact Sheet
• Understanding D-SNAP
• Food Safety in Case of Emergency Guide
• On the Front Lines – Every Day (East Coast EFPs Respond to Hurricane Sandy)
  

October 2012

• Shelf Life Guide
• Beyond the Food Drive: Ending Hunger Through Citizen Service from NYCCAH
• Smarter Lunchrooms Movement
• Fitter Body, Fitter Brains Let’s Move! Infographic

September 2012

• Community FEAST (Food, Education, Agriculture Solutions Together) Program Evaluation and Planning Manual
• Vermont Fresh: A Fruit and Vegetable Handbook
• How to Get Food Help Pamphlet
• Sesame Workshop Tool Kits for Parents

August 2012

• Reflections on the Closing of the Community Food Security Coalition by WhyHunger’s Alison Cohen
• Homegrown Solutions to Hunger – Fresh Produce Programs at Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
• ACF Guide to Resources and Funding for Community and Faith-based Organizations

July 2012

• Cooking Up Community: Nutrition Education in Emergency Food Programs
• Good Food and Good Jobs for All: Challenges and Opportunities to Advance Racial and Economic Equity in the Food System from Colorlines
• The Stop Community Food Centre’s Learning Network

June 2012

• Food Stamps, Follow the Money: Are Corporations Profiting from Hungry Americans? by Michelle Simon
• The Hands That Feed Us: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers Along the Food Chain from Food Chain Workers Alliance
• Food Policy Councils: An Effective Way to Change the Food System

May 2012

• Meals On Wheels Senior Hunger Report Card
• From Hunger to Health, a Blog from Erik Talkin, CEO of the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County
• Five Themes from the Feeding America Unity 2012 Conference

April 2012

• Your Federal Taxpayer Receipt
• How to get Your Local Radio Station to Play a Summer Meals PSA

March 2012

• Let’s Move! Faith and Communities Toolkit
• Contradictions in the Anti-Hunger Movement by Andy Fisher
• The Impact of WIC Food Package Changes on Access to Healthful Food
• National Council on Aging Center for Benefits Access
• The Foundation Center

February 2012

• WhyHunger’s Letter to the Editor in Response to the Wall Street Journal Article “Food Stamp Nation”
• “It’s Dinnertime” – A Report on Low-Income Families’ Efforts to Plan, Shop for, and Cook Healthy Meals
• Letters of Interest for Everybody at the Table for Health (EAT4Health)
• USDA Latino Outreach

January 2012

• Education, Accessibility and Healthy Foods: Keys to Giving Infants a Good Nutritious Start
• SNAP Outreach and Nutrition Education Materials

October 2011

• Librarians: The New Caseworker

September 2011

• A Mixed Bag: Considerations on Backpack Programs and Family Dynamics
• Online WIC Prescreening Tool