We're so excited for our WhyHunger Chapin Awards dinner tonight, where we'll be honoring our five amazing 2012 Harry Chapin Self-Reliance Award winners: Food for Maine's Future, "Food, What?!", HOPE Collaborative, Neighbors Together, and Tierra y Libertad Organization. Meet these inspiring organizations in a short film that will premiere tonight! Join us at next year's dinner as an award winner
13-06-2012
"Food, What?!" makes me smile. The name, the place, the people in it...it takes just a millisecond of thinking about any combination of those things to break a big grin across my face! I got to spend a day with the FoodWhat?! crew in Santa Cruz a few weeks ago- turning soil for the potato rows on their farm, chopping
08-06-2012
WhyHunger congratulates our partner, the Food Chain Workers Alliance, on its groundbreaking new report, The Hands That Feed Us: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers Along the Food Chain. It’s the first-ever comprehensive report looking at wages and working conditions of workers across the entire food chain – a sector that employs 20 million people in the U.S., comprising one-sixth of
07-06-2012
Summer brings the highest rates of childhood hunger in the U.S. With children out of school, those that receive free school breakfast and lunch are going without, and many of them are skipping meals and eating less than during the school year. The Summer Food Service Program provides funding to serve meals and snacks to children and teens to fill
04-06-2012
Photos and story by Lorrie Clevenger, Capacity Building Coordinator Community School PS 211 in the Bronx, NYC, is preparing to receive a flock of chickens for its school garden. Over two days in May, students, teachers, staff, parents and even a few grandparents pitched in to build a chicken coop to house twelve new hens. Jason Godlewicz, the computer teacher
01-06-2012
Do you know an organization that is leading the fight to take back the food system? Call for nominations for the 2012 Food Sovereignty Prize! The Food Sovereignty Prize highlights and celebrates the work of grassroots groups fighting for their land and waterways, reclaiming vacant lots, teaching others how to grow food, and developing distribution systems- while simultaneously creating jobs,
30-05-2012
We're so excited for our WhyHunger Chapin Awards dinner tonight, where we'll be honoring our five amazing 2012 Harry Chapin Self-Reliance Award winners: Food for Maine's Future, "Food, What?!", HOPE Collaborative, Neighbors Together, and Tierra y Libertad Organization. Meet these inspiring organizations in a short film that will premiere tonight! Join us at next year's dinner as an award winner
13-06-2012
"Food, What?!" makes me smile. The name, the place, the people in it...it takes just a millisecond of thinking about any combination of those things to break a big grin across my face! I got to spend a day with the FoodWhat?! crew in Santa Cruz a few weeks ago- turning soil for the potato rows on their farm, chopping
08-06-2012
WhyHunger congratulates our partner, the Food Chain Workers Alliance, on its groundbreaking new report, The Hands That Feed Us: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers Along the Food Chain. It’s the first-ever comprehensive report looking at wages and working conditions of workers across the entire food chain – a sector that employs 20 million people in the U.S., comprising one-sixth of
07-06-2012
Summer brings the highest rates of childhood hunger in the U.S. With children out of school, those that receive free school breakfast and lunch are going without, and many of them are skipping meals and eating less than during the school year. The Summer Food Service Program provides funding to serve meals and snacks to children and teens to fill
04-06-2012
Photos and story by Lorrie Clevenger, Capacity Building Coordinator Community School PS 211 in the Bronx, NYC, is preparing to receive a flock of chickens for its school garden. Over two days in May, students, teachers, staff, parents and even a few grandparents pitched in to build a chicken coop to house twelve new hens. Jason Godlewicz, the computer teacher
01-06-2012
Do you know an organization that is leading the fight to take back the food system? Call for nominations for the 2012 Food Sovereignty Prize! The Food Sovereignty Prize highlights and celebrates the work of grassroots groups fighting for their land and waterways, reclaiming vacant lots, teaching others how to grow food, and developing distribution systems- while simultaneously creating jobs,
30-05-2012