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
28-09-2015
{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
26-09-2015
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
23-09-2015
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
16-09-2015
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,
15-09-2015
Pope Frances. Image credit: Catholic Church England and Wales Flickr Written by Bill Ayres, WhyHunger Co-Founder and Ambassador. This post first appeared in The Huffington Post. As we prepare for Pope Francis to visit our country what should we expect? Is he just another pope who speaks good words or is he really a radical out to save the environment and bring
14-09-2015
This spotlight is a feature on WhyHunger’s digital storytelling website, Community Voices, that showcases grassroots organizations and community leaders through dynamic stories and pictures, to give a real view of projects that are working to alleviate food insecurity and increase communities’ access to nutritious food. We believe that telling one’s story is not only an act of reclaiming in the face of the dominant food narrative
11-09-2015
CookiesA Cookie file is – according to Wikipedia - a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while a user is browsing a website. When the user browses the same website in the future, the data stored in the cookie can be retrieved by the website to notify the website of the
10-09-2015
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
28-09-2015
{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
26-09-2015
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
23-09-2015
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
16-09-2015
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,
15-09-2015
Pope Frances. Image credit: Catholic Church England and Wales Flickr Written by Bill Ayres, WhyHunger Co-Founder and Ambassador. This post first appeared in The Huffington Post. As we prepare for Pope Francis to visit our country what should we expect? Is he just another pope who speaks good words or is he really a radical out to save the environment and bring
14-09-2015
This spotlight is a feature on WhyHunger’s digital storytelling website, Community Voices, that showcases grassroots organizations and community leaders through dynamic stories and pictures, to give a real view of projects that are working to alleviate food insecurity and increase communities’ access to nutritious food. We believe that telling one’s story is not only an act of reclaiming in the face of the dominant food narrative
11-09-2015
CookiesA Cookie file is – according to Wikipedia - a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while a user is browsing a website. When the user browses the same website in the future, the data stored in the cookie can be retrieved by the website to notify the website of the
10-09-2015