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The founders of World Hunger Year sought to end hunger and poverty by supporting grass-roots movements and community solutions. Today, WhyHunger is known for its annual Hungerthon campaign, running this year…
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The annual health care costs associated with hunger are estimated to be $130.5 billion in the U.S. alone, showing that addressing food insecurity and poor nutrition is a necessary step…
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For a tenth consecutive year, SiriusXM will participate in WhyHunger's annual Hungerthon campaign, it was announced Wednesday (Nov. 14). The annual Thanksgiving radio tradition began in 1975, according to Hungerthon's…
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Hard Rock International is partnering with WhyHunger to release the brand's latest limited-edition merchandise line on Oct. 2. The Bruce Springsteen Signature Series: Edition 36 collection supports WhyHunger's work to…
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The social contract between our government and its people is hanging on by a thread. If the 2018 Farm Bill is any indication of the strength of that last thread,…
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WhyHunger is in Billboard Magazine's 2016 Music + Philanthropy issue along with our partners at Food Chain Workers Alliance and longtime supporter Tom Morello.
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Interview with New York City Food Policy Center and WhyHunger Executive Director, Noreen Springstead.
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Alison Cohen, Senior Director of Programs, sits down with WNBC4 New York to share five fresh tips on how to fight hunger for the holidays.
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Alison Cohen speaks to ABC 7 Chicago about the different ways you can help end hunger.
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After a cancelled GovBall performances, Prophets of Rage dedicate proceeds from make-up show in Brooklyn, to WhyHunger.
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Q&A with recent WhyHunger Chapin Awards honoree Kenny Loggins
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Bill Ayres and Jen Chapin discuss hunger, poverty and the role we can play in finding solutions.
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Music festival hosts 15 charitable organizations on-site, including WhyHunger.  
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Socially-conscious musical shows benefit organizations like WhyHunger.
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WhyHunger's approach in working to end hunger, goes beyond charity.
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Writer Ilene Angel discusses the memorable full circle moments she had at the WhyHunger Chapin Awards.
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Emily Kinney Interview
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Talking About Food with WhyHunger Activists, Tess and Beatriz
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Southside Johnny Plays 30th Annual Hungerthon
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Emily Kinney’s Taking Over Our SnapChat for a Solid Cause  
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Emily Kinney on why watching The Walking Dead now is like going back to high school
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For Love and for the Love of Lennon in New York City: 35th Annual Tribute Concert Preview
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Deb Gordon with Suzanne Babb and Denny Marsh
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Make it Plain with Mark Thompson Broadcast Live from Bed-Stuy Campaign  Against Hunger with Alison Cohen
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Stories From Main Street: In 30th Year, Hungerthon Needed More Than Ever, Organizers Say
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It’s Hungerthon Day! Join the Fight to End Hunger in America Now
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WhyHunger featured in Family Circle's "Best Of" List for November, 2015
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Grassroots Struggle for Food Sovereignty and Liberation of Black Cultures
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Steve Adubato’s Lessons in Leadership
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Creating Harmony with WhyHunger
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Millennial Startup Founders Are the Must-Have Item This Fundraising Season
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Black and Afro-Indigenous Farmers Share 2015 Food Sovereignty Prize
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As WhyHunger celebrates our 40th anniversary, we are excited to bring a new generation of artists on board to help the 795 million people worldwide who live with food insecurity. Here’s your chance to join artists like Bruce Springsteen, Yoko Ono Lennon, Aarón Sánchez, Carlos Santana, Brandi Carlile, Michael McDonald, Trampled By Turtles, Jackson Browne and so many others as
To support our partner, the US Food Sovereignty Alliance's Month of Community Power, WhyHunger will act in solidarity and invite you all to do the same as organizations across the US mobilize against privatizing land and water, work for democratic control of our food system. Learn more about this important initiative and how you can join below.   The United States
A Movement begins to assume momentum when people begin exploring visionary answers to the questions being asked at the grassroots and engage in practical activities which can be replicated without huge bureaucracies. In the early stages of a Movement, the visionary answers being explored usually strike most people as too radical or too impractical. If they don’t, they are probably
Summer Meals Rocks for Kids! Help spread the word about Summer Meals Rock for Kids to connect kids in need with free, healthy meals all summer long! Available via call, text or online search the WhyHunger Hotline 1-800-5 HUNGRY (1-800-548-6479) and comprehensive database refers people to summer meals sites closest to them across the U.S. Monday through Friday from 9am-6pm
{loadposition donate-2} Join the Giving Circle Folk musician Harry Chapin and his friend Bill Ayres founded WhyHunger to find long-term solutions to hunger and poverty and build a grassroots movement that could enact them. We invite you to invest in Harry’s vision—in WhyHunger’s vision—by joining this group of dedicated monthly donors who sustain our work to make healthy food accessible
{loadposition donate-2} {loadposition donate-1} WhyHunger is a registered 501(c)(3) private, nonprofit organization. All donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Read our privacy policy.
This is the 3rd and final profile in a 3-part series. Story and photos by Siena Chrisman. Roger Allison raises beef calves with his wife, Rhonda Perry, on rolling pastures in the hills of central Missouri. Their cattle graze on lush grass and cool themselves in a valley pond in the heat of the summer. Industrially-focused farm professionals suggest that beef cows should be
What does Ferguson mean for the food justice movement? Find out in our new thought-provoking series with a special introduction and Issue 1 out now! To lift up critical voices of the movement, WhyHunger’s Beatriz Beckford facilitated a national call with dynamic organizers and activists across the country to discuss the connection between the oppression that black communities face at
Does ‘organizing’ sound like an overwhelming undertaking? It shouldn’t, because it isn’t – and WhyHunger’s new publication Rise Up! Organizing in Emergency Food Programs can show you how it can be done through building collective people power to transform the charity model of emergency feeding. Rise Up, produced by WhyHunger’s Nourish Network for the Right to Food program, asked the question,
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As WhyHunger celebrates our 40th anniversary, we are excited to bring a new generation of artists on board to help the 795 million people worldwide who live with food insecurity. Here’s your chance to join artists like Bruce Springsteen, Yoko Ono Lennon, Aarón Sánchez, Carlos Santana, Brandi Carlile, Michael McDonald, Trampled By Turtles, Jackson Browne and so many others as
To support our partner, the US Food Sovereignty Alliance's Month of Community Power, WhyHunger will act in solidarity and invite you all to do the same as organizations across the US mobilize against privatizing land and water, work for democratic control of our food system. Learn more about this important initiative and how you can join below.   The United States
A Movement begins to assume momentum when people begin exploring visionary answers to the questions being asked at the grassroots and engage in practical activities which can be replicated without huge bureaucracies. In the early stages of a Movement, the visionary answers being explored usually strike most people as too radical or too impractical. If they don’t, they are probably
Summer Meals Rocks for Kids! Help spread the word about Summer Meals Rock for Kids to connect kids in need with free, healthy meals all summer long! Available via call, text or online search the WhyHunger Hotline 1-800-5 HUNGRY (1-800-548-6479) and comprehensive database refers people to summer meals sites closest to them across the U.S. Monday through Friday from 9am-6pm
{loadposition donate-2} Join the Giving Circle Folk musician Harry Chapin and his friend Bill Ayres founded WhyHunger to find long-term solutions to hunger and poverty and build a grassroots movement that could enact them. We invite you to invest in Harry’s vision—in WhyHunger’s vision—by joining this group of dedicated monthly donors who sustain our work to make healthy food accessible
{loadposition donate-2} {loadposition donate-1} WhyHunger is a registered 501(c)(3) private, nonprofit organization. All donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Read our privacy policy.
This is the 3rd and final profile in a 3-part series. Story and photos by Siena Chrisman. Roger Allison raises beef calves with his wife, Rhonda Perry, on rolling pastures in the hills of central Missouri. Their cattle graze on lush grass and cool themselves in a valley pond in the heat of the summer. Industrially-focused farm professionals suggest that beef cows should be
What does Ferguson mean for the food justice movement? Find out in our new thought-provoking series with a special introduction and Issue 1 out now! To lift up critical voices of the movement, WhyHunger’s Beatriz Beckford facilitated a national call with dynamic organizers and activists across the country to discuss the connection between the oppression that black communities face at
Does ‘organizing’ sound like an overwhelming undertaking? It shouldn’t, because it isn’t – and WhyHunger’s new publication Rise Up! Organizing in Emergency Food Programs can show you how it can be done through building collective people power to transform the charity model of emergency feeding. Rise Up, produced by WhyHunger’s Nourish Network for the Right to Food program, asked the question,

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