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The mission of the Franklin Food Bank is to enhance the quality of life for Franklin Township residents in need by providing food assistance in an atmosphere of dignity and respect

Mission: San Diego Hunger Coalition leads coordinated action to end hunger in San Diego County. We do this through research, education and advocacy. Vision: Our vision is that everyone in San Diego County has enough food for an active, healthy life. Goals The San Diego Hunger Coalition leads coordinated action to: 1. Build a more effective and interconnected system of food assistance resources. 2. Enable low-income individuals and families to purchase more healthy food by increasing participation in CalFresh, a monthly supplement to a household’s food budget. 3. Ensure all children have year-round access to healthy food by expanding school meals and other federal child nutrition programs. 4. Advocate for legislative and administrative policies that reduce hunger and increase access to healthy food.

Founded in 2016, the mission of Barriguitas is to provide food (dinners) to poor children in Venezuela.

The mission of the Association for the Children of Regnier Haiti, Inc. (ACR) is to provide comprehensive services designed to meet the emotional, physical, educational and social needs of the children of Regnier in Cayes, Haiti, hence, promoting self-sufficiency.

Athletes C.A.R.E. is a growing organization of like-minded athletes, who provide unique, athletics-related service opportunities that support residents of communities in need. The mission of Athletes C.A.R.E. is to use athletics to make a lasting impact on the lives of others. We provide assistance and support to the needy, hungry, and homeless. Athletes C.A.R.E., a 501c3 nonprofit organization, is a network of young people at colleges across the country who turn their passion and energy as student-athletes into positive change in the communities in which they live, bettering the lives of others. We are young people “Creating Abundant Relief Effort.” We are Athletes C.A.R.E.

Founded in 2016, Cul2vate grows and delivers nutritional community-grown produce to feed the local hungry. We work to fight the incidence of food deserts in Middle Tennessee by donating high quality, fresh vegetables to those in need. Additionally, Cul2vate offers those in need of a second chance in the form of discipleship, life skills and job readiness training. We call these individuals "Cul2vators" as they are cultivating new life in the crops they nurture and within their own lives. While feeding the hungry in body and spirit is our focus, we also redeem underutilized land while fostering volunteerism and increasing agricultural awareness.

The Building Blocks of NJ is a tax exempt non- profit organization that provides support and relief in a distinguished manner regardless of gender, race, or religion. We work to empower individuals and families through a broad continuum in their community to overcome challenges and meet the communities values and needs.

Amigos de Jesús is a home and bilingual school for children in Honduras that has cared for hundreds of children who have suffered the indignities of abuse, neglect, homelessness and hunger in one of the hemisphere’s poorest countries. Amigos de Jesús is a permanent safe haven with shelter, food and education for over 120 children. Amigos de Jesús aims to walk alongside our children from the time they arrive, afraid and traumatized, until the time that they are ready to move out into the world as adults prepared for responsibility and citizenship within their country of origin.

We partner with you to make lives better serving the whole person providing free medical, dental, food, and behavioral health care; in Jesus' name.

In 2014, the Mid-North Food Pantry was awarded a grant from the Indy Hunger Network for modifications to the building to allow full pallets of food (called “totes”) to be taken directly from the elevator to the pantry store room using a pallet jack. Previously, a full pallet of food would have to be handled several times by volunteers to move through doorways too small for a pallet to go through. MNFP is now able to purchase full totes from Gleaners Food Bank at a cost of 6 cents per pound. A tote can hold several hundred pounds of food and includes everything from cereal to meat.  A full tote costs about $20.

Too often grocery stores and restaurants find themselves throwing out food, when there is great need in nearby communities. MEANS Database modernizes food recovery in 48 states and the District of Columbia by connecting excess food to organizations and individuals who need it. Hunger lingers in the lives of the people it affects. In infants and toddlers, food insecurity is associated with failure to thrive, a devastating condition with consequences into adulthood (1). In early childhood, hunger is associated with diminished academic progress, more behavioral problems and unhealthy weight (2). By high school, it's linked with dropping out, and by early adulthood, with having children who also face hunger, the cycle starts over again (3). Food insecurity exists in every American demographic and geography, affecting every population tracked by the US Census. However, as it seems for every other social ill, the most rural, the most urban, and minorities in any location bear a disproportionate burden of the weight of hunger. While 12.7% of American families are food insecure, the rate for Black and Latino families are each about 20% (4). Jefferson County, Mississippi, is a study in these disparities: it has the highest percentage of black residents of any American county, and also holds the dubious distinction of having the highest rate of food insecurity in the United States, with nearly 38% of residents facing hunger (5). Meanwhile, while more than 42 million Americans rely on food pantries, soup kitchens and other emergency food providers to feed their families, the United States grapples with an massive food waste problem. Forty percent of the American food supply ends up in landfills, with perfectly edible meals being thrown away at all stages of production (7). Food is the single largest contributor to landfill and incinerator mass in the United States, choking the nation's air while 1 in 8 Americans face food insecurity (8). Further complicating this feast and famine dynamic is the uncomfortable truth that even programs meant to address hunger frequently end up wasting food. The issue we are tackling with MEANS is huge: we're trying to prevent food waste and adequately address the problem of hunger. The USDA reports that 48.1 million Americans live in food-insecure households, while Feeding America says that 70 billion pounds of food are wasted in the US each year (8). This task may seem daunting, but we know that through the use of innovative technology like ours, we can help to change the future of food recovery. MEANS (Matching Excess And Need for Stability) is an online communications platform for emergency food providers and their donors. On a desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone, agencies create an account with MEANS, registering their contact information, location, the kind(s) of foods they are searching for, and the distance they are willing or able to travel to pick up those goods. Donors post their excess goods on MEANS, and the system emails and/or texts organizations nearby that need those goods. Our tool substantially reduces the communications gap between emergency food providers and their donors, preventing "donation dumping" on both sides. MEANS was designed to handle both traditional food donations, from grocery stores or caterers, and donations between emergency food providers. There is no charge for any of our organization's services, for nonprofit agencies or retailers. Citations: 1) Kersten, Hans B. and Bennett, David (2012) "A Multidisciplinary Team Experience with Food Insecurity & Failure to Thrive," Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 6. 2) Jyoti, Diana F.; Frongillo, Edward A.; and Jones, Sonya J. (2005) "Food Insecurity Affects School Children's Academic Performance, Weight Gain, and Social Skills" The Journal of Nutrition vol. 135 no. 12 2831-2839. 3)"Changing the Picture of Education in America: Communities in Schools Spring 2014 Impact Report" (2014) 4) USDA (2015). "Food Security Status of U.S. Households in 2015" 5) Feeding America (2016). "Map the Meal Gap 2016" 7) Gunders, Dana (2012). "Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill" 8) Feeding America (ND), "Food Waste In America"

The mission of Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina is to feed hungry people by soliciting and distributing food and household items through partner agencies. Second Harvest works to educate people in the community about the nature of and solutions to the problem of hunger. Second Harvest supplies food throughout a 19 county region of North and South Carolina through a network of over 700 emergency pantries, soup kitchens, homeless shelters and programs for low-income children and seniors.