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Hunger in America 2006
The America's Second Harvest Network produced "Hunger in America 2006," a comprehensive profile of the incidence and nature of hunger and food insecurity in the U.S.

America's Second Harvest
A network of 185 affiliated food banks in the United States which provide food to the hungry through nearly 50,000 social service and non-profit community-based orgainzations.

Center of Budget and Policy Priorities
An advocacy group that addresses public policy issues surrounding aid to low-income Americans.

Children's Defense Fund
National advocacy group focuses on issues concerning the security of children.

Congressional Hunger Center
An outgrowth of the Congressional Select Committee on Hunger. The center publishes a newsletter, encourages local advocacy and provides educational resources for teachers and students.

Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)
An advocacy and research organization focusing on domestic hunger.

National Center for Children in Poverty
Part of Columbia University's School of Public Health, the Center provides academic research and discussion concerning issues of poverty and hunger.

Share Our Strength
A network of professionals working to alleviate hunger in North America and the rest of the world.

United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service - Federal program that manages food stamps, school meals and the Emergency Food Assistance Program. The site features interactive games and activities aimed at children.

World Hunger Year
WHY is a leading advocate for innovative, community-based solutions to hunger and poverty. WHY challenges society to confront these problems by advancing models that create self-reliance, economic justice, and equal access to nutritious and affordable food.

Bread for the World
Bread for the World is a nationwide Christian movement that seeks justice for the world's hungry people by lobbying our nation's decision makers.

Mazon
MAZON allocates donations from the Jewish community to prevent and alleviate hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds.

Meals on Wheels
Locations in U.S. and Canada

Meals on Wheels Association of America
The Meals On Wheels Association of America (MOWAA) is the oldest and largest organization in the United States representing those who provide meal services to people in need.

Action Against Hunger
The mission of Action Against Hunger is to save lives by eliminating hunger through the prevention, detection, and treatment of malnutrition, especially during and after emergency situations of conflict, war and natural disaster.

Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization
Our mission . . . is "to network with community leaders in developing countries to seek hunger solutions for families growing food under difficult conditions."

Feed the Children
Feed The Children is a Christian, international, nonprofit relief organization with headquarters in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, that delivers food, medicine, clothing and other necessities to individuals, children and families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty, or natural disaster.

Food for the Hungry International
Food for the Hungry (FHI) is a growing, international organization that answers God's call to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the poor. Founded in 1971, FHI is incorporated in Geneva, Switzerland and has its international service center in Bangkok, Thailand.

Food for the Poor
We provide food, housing, health care, education, water projects, micro-enterprise development assistance and emergency relief to the poorest of the poor.

Food Not Bombs
Food Not Bombs is one of the fastest growing revolutionary movements and is gaining momentum throughout the world. There are hundreds of autonomous chapters sharing free vegetarian food with hungry people and protesting war and poverty.

Read to Feed
Heifer International works to end world hunger and save the earth. For more than 60 years, Heifer has helped more than seven million impoverished families in 128 countries lift themselves out of poverty and achieve self-reliance.

Home Gardening Project
The Home Gardening Project Foundation practices community preventive medicine by giving complete raised-bed vegetable gardens to the aged, the disabled, single-parent mothers and large families.

     
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