For years, WhyHunger has partnered with emergency food providers working towards healthy food sourcing. After extensive research, one-on-one interviews and participating in the national conversation on the future of emergency food, we are excited to release Beyond Bread: Healthy Food Sourcing in Emergency Food Programs, a comprehensive new publication that provides examples and inspiration from emergency food providers across the
19-06-2014
Bruce Springsteen, Chicago, Chef Aarón Sánchez, Crosby, Stills & Nash, the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Jackson Browne, Paul McCartney, Zac Brown Band and other activists are teaming up with WhyHunger to kick off the Summer Meals Rock for Kids campaign to raise funds and awareness to fight childhood hunger in the U.S. this summer. The campaign runs all summer long and
16-06-2014
This spotlight is a feature in a series of the USDA Community Food Project Competitive Grant Program (CFP). Grantees are doing some of the most innovative and collaborative projects to change local and regional food systems. WhyHunger’s www. — also funded by a CFP grant — is profiling these organizations through dynamic stories and pictures, to give a real flavor of what the projects
11-06-2014
Earlier this week, the 15th annual WhyHunger Chapin Awards, “Hope to End Hunger,” took place at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square, New York. The event was a celebration of those making a difference in the fight against hunger and poverty and honored Jeffrey Gural, chairman of the real estate firm Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, who has provided a home
05-06-2014
Chef Aaron Sanchez and WhyHunger visit EcoStation:NY and Bushwick Campus Farm (Photo by Diane Bondareff for WhyHunger) The 2014 WhyHunger Chapin Awards, “Hope to End Hunger,” is coming up on June 3! This year, youth from EcoStation:NY will be building an onsite farm installation inside the Hard Rock Cafe at Times Square. EcoStation:NY’s Bushwick Campus Farm is a living classroom
28-05-2014
Our long-time partners and friends at East New York Farms! recently published an interactive case study that details the organization’s history from 1995 to 2011. ENYFarms, located in East New York, Brooklyn, engages youth and adults in food justice by promoting local urban agriculture and community-led economic development. The case study reveals the challenges and learning that ENYFarms has gathered
23-05-2014
For years, WhyHunger has partnered with emergency food providers working towards healthy food sourcing. After extensive research, one-on-one interviews and participating in the national conversation on the future of emergency food, we are excited to release Beyond Bread: Healthy Food Sourcing in Emergency Food Programs, a comprehensive new publication that provides examples and inspiration from emergency food providers across the
19-06-2014
Bruce Springsteen, Chicago, Chef Aarón Sánchez, Crosby, Stills & Nash, the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Jackson Browne, Paul McCartney, Zac Brown Band and other activists are teaming up with WhyHunger to kick off the Summer Meals Rock for Kids campaign to raise funds and awareness to fight childhood hunger in the U.S. this summer. The campaign runs all summer long and
16-06-2014
This spotlight is a feature in a series of the USDA Community Food Project Competitive Grant Program (CFP). Grantees are doing some of the most innovative and collaborative projects to change local and regional food systems. WhyHunger’s www. — also funded by a CFP grant — is profiling these organizations through dynamic stories and pictures, to give a real flavor of what the projects
11-06-2014
Earlier this week, the 15th annual WhyHunger Chapin Awards, “Hope to End Hunger,” took place at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square, New York. The event was a celebration of those making a difference in the fight against hunger and poverty and honored Jeffrey Gural, chairman of the real estate firm Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, who has provided a home
05-06-2014
Chef Aaron Sanchez and WhyHunger visit EcoStation:NY and Bushwick Campus Farm (Photo by Diane Bondareff for WhyHunger) The 2014 WhyHunger Chapin Awards, “Hope to End Hunger,” is coming up on June 3! This year, youth from EcoStation:NY will be building an onsite farm installation inside the Hard Rock Cafe at Times Square. EcoStation:NY’s Bushwick Campus Farm is a living classroom
28-05-2014
Our long-time partners and friends at East New York Farms! recently published an interactive case study that details the organization’s history from 1995 to 2011. ENYFarms, located in East New York, Brooklyn, engages youth and adults in food justice by promoting local urban agriculture and community-led economic development. The case study reveals the challenges and learning that ENYFarms has gathered
23-05-2014