By Hillary Zuckerberg, Director of WhyHunger's Artists Against Hunger & Poverty. Beatriz Beckford, Manager of WhyHunger's Grassroots Action Network (pictured in red, center), talks with concert attendees about WhyHunger programs. Last month, WhyHunger set up a table at the Made In America festival for a weekend of music and justice. Volunteers gave out WhyHunger temporary tattoos and business cards that grow into
22-09-2014
By Alison Cohen, WhyHunger's Senior Director of Programs. This post originally appeared on EcoWatch. A locally trained agronomist works with residents at Mouvman Peyizan Papay first Eco-Village, a sustainable community in Haiti’s Central Plateau. Climate change is arguably the most pressing and cross-cutting issue of our time. The policies we’ve created, endorsed and use to rely almost exclusively on fossil fuels to meet
19-09-2014
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
18-09-2014
Are you in New York City? Want to keep that glow of inspiration after the People’s Climate March this weekend? This Sunday at 6:00pm, Saulo Araujo, WhyHunger’s Global Movements Program Director, will take part in a panel discussion at Photoville about the power of storytelling to affect social change. Photo by Alfredo Bini, photojournalist and panel participant. The panel, Land
16-09-2014
By Judy Belue, Director of the Delta Fresh Foods Initiative (DFFI). DFFI is a coalition of community stakeholders committed to establishing sustainable, equitable food systems in the Mississippi Delta. Dr. H. Jack Geiger with Dr. John W. Hatch during construction on the Delta Health Center, 1968. Dr. H. Jack Geiger came to the Mississippi Delta fifty years ago during the
10-09-2014
By Hillary Zuckerberg, Director of WhyHunger's Artists Against Hunger & Poverty. Beatriz Beckford, Manager of WhyHunger's Grassroots Action Network (pictured in red, center), talks with concert attendees about WhyHunger programs. Last month, WhyHunger set up a table at the Made In America festival for a weekend of music and justice. Volunteers gave out WhyHunger temporary tattoos and business cards that grow into
22-09-2014
By Alison Cohen, WhyHunger's Senior Director of Programs. This post originally appeared on EcoWatch. A locally trained agronomist works with residents at Mouvman Peyizan Papay first Eco-Village, a sustainable community in Haiti’s Central Plateau. Climate change is arguably the most pressing and cross-cutting issue of our time. The policies we’ve created, endorsed and use to rely almost exclusively on fossil fuels to meet
19-09-2014
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
18-09-2014
Are you in New York City? Want to keep that glow of inspiration after the People’s Climate March this weekend? This Sunday at 6:00pm, Saulo Araujo, WhyHunger’s Global Movements Program Director, will take part in a panel discussion at Photoville about the power of storytelling to affect social change. Photo by Alfredo Bini, photojournalist and panel participant. The panel, Land
16-09-2014
By Judy Belue, Director of the Delta Fresh Foods Initiative (DFFI). DFFI is a coalition of community stakeholders committed to establishing sustainable, equitable food systems in the Mississippi Delta. Dr. H. Jack Geiger with Dr. John W. Hatch during construction on the Delta Health Center, 1968. Dr. H. Jack Geiger came to the Mississippi Delta fifty years ago during the
10-09-2014