Nourishing Connections is a new project from the National Hunger Clearinghouse that connects emergency food providers to resources and helps bring together like-minded organizations to foster shared learning. One of our goals is to support building connections between emergency food providers that will share resources, best practices, and ideas leading to greater unity between food banking and community food security.
17-03-2014
This weekend, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is ending their ten-day "Now Is the Time" tour with rallies in Lakeland, Florida, headquarters of Publix supermarkets, asking the grocery giant to come to the table and join the Fair Food Program. In southwestern Wisconsin, the Family Farm Defenders (FFD) are gathering to honor the next generation of activist farmers with the John
14-03-2014
John Kinsman Beginning Farmer Food Sovereignty Prize winner Blain Snipstal (center) with Joel Greeno (left), now President of Family Farm Defenders, and FFD board member Bob St. Peter at the 2013 US Food Sovereignty Alliance Assembly. WhyHunger congratulates the winners of the John Kinsman Beginning Farmer Food Sovereignty Prize: Blain Snipstal of Five Seeds Farm near Sparks, MD and Jed
10-03-2014
By WhyHunger Executive Director Bill Ayres Having worked to end hunger and poverty for the last 40 years, I know that the passage of a new farm bill is a time of great change -- sometimes for the better; usually, in the recent era, for the worse. In talking to colleagues across the anti-hunger and food justice communities in the
07-03-2014
The USDA has issued a request for applications for the 2014 Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program. Grants go to projects that work toward developing community food sovereignty, responding to the nutritional and educational needs of low-income individuals, and planning and innovating food systems solutions. Grants are awarded up to $250,000, and this year, you don’t have to be a 501(c)(3)
07-03-2014
Nourishing Connections is a new project from the National Hunger Clearinghouse that connects emergency food providers to resources and helps bring together like-minded organizations to foster shared learning. One of our goals is to support building connections between emergency food providers that will share resources, best practices, and ideas leading to greater unity between food banking and community food security.
17-03-2014
This weekend, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is ending their ten-day "Now Is the Time" tour with rallies in Lakeland, Florida, headquarters of Publix supermarkets, asking the grocery giant to come to the table and join the Fair Food Program. In southwestern Wisconsin, the Family Farm Defenders (FFD) are gathering to honor the next generation of activist farmers with the John
14-03-2014
John Kinsman Beginning Farmer Food Sovereignty Prize winner Blain Snipstal (center) with Joel Greeno (left), now President of Family Farm Defenders, and FFD board member Bob St. Peter at the 2013 US Food Sovereignty Alliance Assembly. WhyHunger congratulates the winners of the John Kinsman Beginning Farmer Food Sovereignty Prize: Blain Snipstal of Five Seeds Farm near Sparks, MD and Jed
10-03-2014
By WhyHunger Executive Director Bill Ayres Having worked to end hunger and poverty for the last 40 years, I know that the passage of a new farm bill is a time of great change -- sometimes for the better; usually, in the recent era, for the worse. In talking to colleagues across the anti-hunger and food justice communities in the
07-03-2014
The USDA has issued a request for applications for the 2014 Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program. Grants go to projects that work toward developing community food sovereignty, responding to the nutritional and educational needs of low-income individuals, and planning and innovating food systems solutions. Grants are awarded up to $250,000, and this year, you don’t have to be a 501(c)(3)
07-03-2014