We can, and should, end hunger in America.
Hunger is a foundational problem – without addressing it, many of the other challenges faced by our society, from education to employment to poverty, are simply insolvable. In any given year, almost 48 million people across the United States are faced with hunger or food insecurity, while at the same time we as a nation throw away enough food to meet the need for assistance 10-20 times over.
Whether you are engaged with hunger as a volunteer, an advocate, or a nonprofit professional, this site is designed to give you tools to help your community address its hunger problem efficiently, with respect for the dignity and worth of all people.
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Tools & Resources
FLIP – Food Bank Logistics Information Planner
The Food Bank Logistics Information Planner is a software tool that helps regional food banks manage the logistics and program work that their ERP and CRM systems don’t.
Charity Food Programs That Can End Hunger in America
John Arnold’s classic text that kicked off the choice pantry movement in the United States. If you only read one thing about how to end hunger, read this.
Words of Faith
For those working with religious communities and organizations, collected quotes on hunger, helping and charity from the sacred texts of many of the world’s major religions.
Intaker / Intaker Mobile (Coming soon!)
Web-based intake tool for fixed and mobile food pantries, designed to drive good practices and optimized for ease of use.
How to Run a Food Pantry
A short food pantry-focused distillation of vital good practices for running an efficient, effective, and compassionate program.
Food Pantry Self-Assessment
Score your food pantry on the best practices we’ve identified as vital to making ending hunger in your community possible.
“If a community addresses the key issues our research has identified, it likely can adequately address its hunger problem. (…) If a community does not address the key issues our research has identified, no conceivable configuration of compensatory measures will bring adequately addressing its hunger problem to within reach.”
– Waste Not Want Not Project, 1996