The Healing Garden at Far Rock Farm, New York ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Closing the Hunger Gap Conference, Oregon

Partnering with WhyHunger was a pivotal moment for us as a small, often unconventional, hunger relief organization in the Midwest. WhyHunger connects us with like-minded, innovative organizations across the country, challenges us to be critical of our role in the emergency food system, and inspires us to continuously improve.”

– Amanda Nickey, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Dear Friends, With one year as the executive director under my belt, solve hunger over the long-term. Over the years, we’ve I feel honored and excited to be working with our staff, connected millions of hungry people to healthy food board, grassroots partners and you to lead such an and we have invested millions of dollars in grassroots incredible organization. Harry Chapin and Bill Ayres started organizations that are training, empowering and nourishing WhyHunger in 1975 to move beyond food charity and their communities. We won’t stop there. We are working to address the social justice issues at the core of hunger. We change the systems and structures that perpetuate hunger remain true to that mission today. We stand in solidarity and poverty. We are fueling innovation on the community, with our community-based partners all around the globe regional, national and global level at the intersections and listen to their wisdom to inform our work. Together of hunger and health, race, the economy and the we move our strategy forward to tackle the root causes of environment. Through WhyHunger’s work, the impact of hunger by building a strong movement rooted in grassroots your dollar and the contribution of your voice is amplified innovations, social justice and the right to nutritious food multiple times beyond a single meal. Your support helps us for all. What we know for certain is that charity alone will to not only increase access to nutritious food, but ultimately not end hunger; working for social justice will. create a more just world. Food pantries and soup kitchens across our country are As you will see in our 2015 accomplishments outlined dedicated to the necessary task of feeding hungry people, in this report, there is much to be proud of in both our but giving out food only solves hunger today. This model of charitable food distribution cannot address the problems domestic and global work. You’ve helped make this work that trap millions of people in a cycle of food insecurity possible and we are deeply grateful for your support. We and poverty. We need passion, strategic-thinking, will continue to invest in grassroots solutions and social We believe that community-led solutions, effective policies and unified movements that are changing the world, and know that nutritious food power emanating from the grassroots to tackle these with your help and partnership, the sky is the limit. issues. We need a movement. is a human right At WhyHunger we feel a fierce sense of urgency around the and hunger is a immediate needs of those who are experiencing hunger Noreen Springstead today, while staying focused on the strategies that will Executive Director solvable problem. AFEDES, Guatemala

I may not have any money but I am a wealthy woman because of my ties to AFEDES. I don’t have a lot of income, but I have a community and my children are going to school. My children are behind me and supporting me. My children know that I have skills, knowledge and value. Because my children know that I have value, they come to recognize their own value and their own power.”

– Doña Sofía, AFEDES Our MISSION WhyHunger is not just another organization with a mission statement tucked away on its website. We are on a mission. Together, we are building a world where everyone has the right to nutritious food. WhyHunger is a leader in building the movement to end hunger and poverty by connecting people to nutritious, affordable food and by supporting grassroots solutions that inspire self-reliance and community empowerment. It’s not about charity, it’s about justice. About WhyHunger Founded in 1975 by the late Harry Chapin system into one that is socially and community organizations implementing Solutions begin and Radio DJ Bill Ayres, WhyHunger works economically just, nourishes whole new ideas and developing groundbreaking to support, resource and build the capacity communities, cools the planet and ensures projects to transform their communities. with income of community organizations and social the rights of all people to food, land, water We build networks of grassroots equity, living movements that are changing the systems, and sustainable livelihoods. organizations that share a vision of healthy, wage jobs and policies and institutions that perpetuate WhyHunger provides capacity building sustainable and self-reliant communities hunger and poverty in our world. Together services, technical support and access to leading to greater mobilization and stronger the right to we are transforming our collective food information and financial resources to advocacy to end poverty and hunger. food for all.

EQUALITY SOCIAL CHANGE How We Work JUSTICE SOCIAL SOCIAL CHANGE JUSTICEENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Our theory of change lifts SOCIAL RACIAL JUSTICE JUSTICE ECONOMIC JUSTICE up the strategic importance SOCIAL JUSTICE TRAINING of broad-based social NETWORKS RESOURCES movements for achieving and ALLYSHIP sustaining our mission and vision. WhyHunger’s programs are in service to supporting and building grassroots-led movements that will end AGROECOLOGY hunger and poverty and build a new society that ensures the rights of all people to food, land, water and sustainable livelihoods. Core Programs

The Nourish The Grassroots The Global The WhyHunger Artists Against Network for the Action Network Movements Hotline and Find Hunger & Poverty Right to Food works in partnership with Program Food Database offers artists, the artist works with emergency community-based leaders, supports and partners refer people in need across community and the music food providers, food access organizations and networks with social movements the U.S. to food pantries, industry the opportunity to organizations, community to build a movement and networks to build soup kitchens, summer meals use their voices to support the health organizations and for a just and equitable international solidarity and sites, government nutrition movement to end hunger and other grassroots and food system in the US. By advance the goals of food programs and model poverty. Through members like national allies to transform supporting and promoting sovereignty and the basic grassroots organizations, with Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello, the charitable response to grassroots leadership, rights to food, land, water an emphasis on food access Michael McDonald, Chicago, hunger in the U.S. into a WhyHunger works to build and sustainable livelihoods sites that provide fresh food Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, more equitable and inclusive capacity for community for all people. and nutrition education. Call Brandi Carlile and more, over social justice movement that organizing and to accelerate 1-800-5HUNGRY, Text your $13 million has been raised to recognizes nutritious food as the collective impact of zip code to 1800-548-6479 support innovative and effective a human right. community-based strategies or visit whyhunger.org/ community-based organizations for food justice. FindFood to locate a local fighting hunger and ensuring the emergency food provider right to nutritious food for all. and other support services. Movement Building WhyHunger builds and strengthens Strategic grassroots-led movements for food Goals justice and food sovereignty worldwide. Social Justice WhyHunger fosters social justice by addressing the root causes of hunger and the deep inequities of poverty at the intersection of economic inequality, racism, health and the environment.

Human Rights WhyHunger works to protect and advance the right to nutritious food for all. Accomplishments:

WhyHunger is building Communities of Practice In 2015, a total of 104 grassroots In 2015, we made with grassroots leaders and organizations across the U.S. as partners benefited from WhyHunger tremendous strides in the first steps in developing and supporting the coalitions, directly sharing resources and granting developing a community alliances and networks that are needed to strengthen and funds for specific projects and travel of practice around build an intersectional movement for food justice. in the amount of $293,748. Black leadership in food justice. Emerging WhyHunger became the fiscal from this community Our 2015 Hunger and Health Gathering launched a and administrative steward of practice was The new community of practice among eight food access organizations for a national alliance National Black working along the intersections of hunger, food insecurity and of food access Food and Justice health in the NJ and NY region. Leaders met face-to-face to build organizations, titled Alliance, a growing relationships and learn together in a two day workshop, leading to Closing the Hunger Gap. As a independent coalition WhyHunger conference scholarships to engage on a national level. key part of the Leadership of Black leaders and Team, we helped to plan Black-led organizations working towards and facilitate a national WhyHunger is The 30th Hungerthon, our signature advancing Black conference with more than developing the most fundraising and awareness building public leadership, building 500 participating organizations comprehensive outreach campaign in partnership with representing 41 different database of food SiriusXM, CBS Radio New York, self-determination, institution building states and Canada. The access organizations and iheartmedia New York, raised and organizing for food conference and the organizing in the U.S., placing a gross total of $822K via a celebrity-driven sovereignty, land and efforts call for a strategic shift an emphasis on auction and support from thousands of justice. from charity to justice in our those that provide individual donors, while giving WhyHunger collective approach to ending nutritious food. Currently with 18,455 staff and 15 different community-based hunger. organizations and growing, we are utilizing partners the opportunity to participate in whyhunger.org/findfood, a new dozens of issue-focused interviews. texting service and our WhyHunger Hotline 1-800-5HUNGRY to assist over 220,400 individuals annually to access healthy food in their communities. Artists Against Hunger “Imagine There’s No Hunger” & Poverty Ambassador: In December of 2015, The Jerry Garcia Artists Emily Kinney Foundation and Hard Rock Cafe San Francisco Singer/songwriter and The Walking Dead actress teamed up to present a Holiday Benefit Concert Emily Kinney joined WhyHunger as an Ambassador for our annual “Imagine There’s No Hunger” during our 2015 Hungerthon campaign. In her official campaign. This amazing event featured guest role she visited our partner, Bed-Stuy Campaign appearances by The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, in Action Against Hunger (BSCAH) where she toured their numerous other talented musicians, renowned urban garden, met youth volunteers and visited artist Stanley Mouse who created an exclusive Tapping into the power of their choice pantry. While on the visit, Emily took poster for the event, and counterculture icon music to raise funds, increase over Nylon magazine’s SnapChat for the day posting Wavy Gravy who served as emcee for the night. awareness and create change, photos and videos of her experience. Emily also WhyHunger’s Artists Against shared her experiences on SiriusXM as part of Hungerthon and performed the title track from Hunger & Poverty program her debut album, “This Is War.” connects artists, fans and the music community to collectively fight for an end to hunger and poverty. Here are some highlights:

When human needs for sustenance and nourishment are met, we move toward a more peaceful planet. [We] support artistic, environmental, and humanitarian causes, and working with Hard Rock Cafe San Francisco on IMAGINE THERE’S NO HUNGER makes perfect sense for us.” Bed-Stuy, Campaign Against Hunger, NY Photo by: Diane Bondareff – Manasha Garcia, The Jerry Garcia Foundation 40th Anniversary WhyHunger Chapin DISPATCH: HUNGER Born To Run poster Awards Gala Honorees In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Bruce The 40th Anniversary WhyHunger Chapin Awards Over a 6-month period WhyHunger served Springsteen’s “Born to Run” album and the 40th Gala was a night of philanthropic success! Honorees as a lead partner in the DISPATCH: anniversary of WhyHunger, photographer Eric Meola included Co-founder and Ambassador Bill Ayres HUNGER campaign, providing content and messaging that was shared over multiple partnered with WhyHunger and Backstreets.com to receiving the WhyHunger Lifetime Achievement channels to raise awareness about hunger produce 1,975 limited edition posters of the iconic Award, legendary singer/songwriter Felix Cavaliere of in the U.S. and inspire fans to take action. 1975 album artwork to support WhyHunger. The The Rascals receiving the ASCAP Harry Chapin Legacy poster was sold online during Hungerthon and has Award, and multi-instrumentalist and songwriter The campaign culminated with the release raised $88,000 to date. Bruce also generously signed Grace Potter receiving the ASCAP Harry Chapin of a new Dispatch song, “Bound by Love,” a few copies. Vanguard Award. The gala closed with an electrifying and a sold-out concert at Madison Square rendition of Harry Chapin’s ‘All My Life’s a Circle’ Garden to benefit their charity partners. with honorees, guests and performers passionately As part of the campaign, WhyHunger proclaiming that hunger does not retire – and that helped secure a $5,000 donation to the story is not over. support the growth of a grassroots partner’s new urban farm.

Bill Ayres & Noreen Springsteed

Bill Ayres, Grace Potter & Felix Cavaliere Photo by: Diane Bondareff SPOTLIGHT: World March of Women Imagine International – Mozambique WhyHunger helped support the World March There’s of Women, a global social movement of urban and rural women from 60 countries that No Hunger: represents an estimated 200 million women Solidarity Fund worldwide, in training new national leaders in Mozambique and across Africa as part of With the support of Yoko Through our International Solidarity Fund, WhyHunger invests in strengthening the 2014 leadership transition. 600 women Ono Lennon and Hard Rock existing and emergent social movements for food justice and food sovereignty. were able to participate in workshops related By directly supporting social movements in 20 countries in 2015, an estimated to food, agriculture and the technical support International, WhyHunger’s 20,229 people participated in activities like agroecological training, leadership needed to produce enough food to feed their global Imagine There’s No families and sell in the local markets. These development for women and youth and capacity building projects. critical trainings helped address the women’s Hunger campaign tapped immediate needs and allowed them to engage supporters around the an international process that will help bring about more sustainable solutions. world to raise funds to Maximizing Impact: support our international WhyHunger’s strategy is focused on fueling communities around the globe while We need more allies like WhyHunger solidarity work. Over the innovative, grassroots-led agroecological strengthening links to social movements to to help us to build strong social projects in communities that are directly help create the conditions to disseminate movements. Only through social last 8 years, Imagine has connected to national, regional and global successful agroecological practices to other movements and international helped fuel WhyHunger’s networks and social movements. This communities at national, regional and solidarity, will we be able to win.” approach directly benefits families and international levels. work with 48 grassroots – Graça Samo, International Coordinator of the World March of Women organizations helping communities grow enough food to provide over 9.8 million meals to children in 31 countries. 1.Argentina In 2015, with the support 2.Brazil 3.Colombia 4.Dominican Republic of the campaign, over 5.Guatemala 6.Haiti 37,460 children were fed, 7.Honduras 14.Panama 8.India 15.Paraguay educated and supported 9.Mali 16.Sri Lanka 10.Mexico 17.Thailand through grassroots efforts. 11.Mozambique 18.The Philippines 12.Nicaragua 19.USA 13.Niger 20.Zimbabwe SPOTLIGHT: SPOTLIGHT: SPOTLIGHT: What is Agroecology? The National Federation The Landless Workers Farmworker Association of Farmers and Cattle Movement (MST) of Florida (FWAF) Agroecology is a series of ecological (FENSUAGRO) – Brazil – United States principles and values, the revalorization – Colombia The Landless Workers Movement is the WhyHunger supported the first of local/traditional/indigenous WhyHunger provided initial funds to rehabilitate largest peasant movement in Latin America Campesino-a-Campesino Agroecology Encounter knowledge, bringing dignity and vibrant the Raul Valbuena Training Center to serve with 1.5 million members. Through a small representing a watershed in the organizing livelihoods back to rural life and food as a space for agroecology classes to peasant grant, WhyHunger supported a meeting work around agroecology in the U.S. Led by and systems labor, and a clear alternative families in Colombia. The center is located on 40 of MST members who are responsible for for farmworkers, the event brought together the technical support on food production farmworkers from four different US states – to the industrial model of agriculture. acres and has the capacity to accommodate 80 Agroecology is a political and social people. Members of FENSUAGRO, responsible in 22 Brazilian states. For years, MST tried Florida, New Jersey, Washington and Texas. for the maintenance of the center, grow coffee, to raise funds so state coordinators could This event offered trainings on agroecological methodology and process, as much vegetables and seedlings and raise small animals meet to share information and design a methods and time to reflect about the different as it is an ecological alternative to in designated areas of the Training Center. strategy to raise funds and disseminate aspects of food production and community Agribusiness.” FENSUAGRO’s long-term vision is to make agroecology across Brazilian. This timely building. There were 55 participants in total at the Training Center one of the Latin American grant to MST will produce a lasting impact the event and among them 14 representatives – Blain Snipstal, a returning generation in the work of 350,000 families who are of ally organizations from the US and abroad. farmer with the Black Dirt Farm Collective Institutes of Agroecology (IALAs), a network in Maryland of agroecology schools maintained by La Via directly responsible for the production of Campesina members in Latin America and the healthy foods to millions of other families Caribbean region. nationwide. It is fitting and necessary that here, in the home of the green revolution, the engine of the industrial model of agriculture, we have gathered agrarian social forces from the This meeting was important to advance our goals of a new model of food production United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Puerto Rico to share, debate and to articulate in the countryside, that is in harmony with the environment; one that respects men a different way forward that includes agroecology and food sovereignty at the center.” and women and keeps them on the land. [This model of production] will make the – Farmworker Association of Florida countryside a healthy place, full of life and full of people. Even though it is clear that we have made progress with our agroecological practices, we still have a lot to accomplish if we want to create structural changes in the way rural families are producing our food.” – Ana Paula Botelho, MST’s national coordinator for food production Changing the Narrative WhyHunger is Our Food Justice Voices A Path Forward: Innovations The Agroecology: Putting publication series broke new at the Intersection of Food Sovereignty into committed to ground in 2015 with our Youth Hunger & Health offered Action publication shared the Food Justice Zine, a platform inspiration and stories of three knowledge and perspectives of changing the for young food justice activists organizations working to address social movement leaders working dominant narrative to share their stories, publish hunger, poverty and illness to “scale out” agroecology around their creative work and express through nutrition, equity, dignity the world, was downloaded over that says feeding their views on the state of our and personal empowerment. Rise 10,870 times and translated into nation’s food system, and the Up! Organizing in Emergency Spanish, French, Portuguese is the solution to What Ferguson Means for Food Programs, profiled four and Thai in response to requests hunger, to one Food Justice Series, a powerful emergency food providers who are from farmers and organizers collection of articles featuring the organizing in their communities across the globe. This important that is rooted grassroots voices of Black leaders around the root causes of hunger publication has been so well working within movement building and poverty, as it connects to received by our community-based in social justice and food justice to create racial housing, wages, health, racism, and social movement partners and amplifies the justice and real social change. and other issues. that we are working on a second edition focused on the experience voices of grassroots of women. leaders and activists whose solutions are not heard enough. whYP (WhyHunger’s Young Professionals Group) La Finca Del Sur, New York Statement Finance of Activities WhyHunger, Inc. * Nine Months Ended December 31, 2015 Revenue: To add further clarity to our accounting and reporting systems, Individual contributions $ 290,543 we changed our fiscal year end from March 31 to December Foundation grants and corporate donations $ 569,993 31 to correspond with the calendar year. The results that are reflected here are for the *nine months beginning April 1, 2015 Artists Against Hunger & Poverty/Hungerthon $ 805,689 and ending December 31, 2015. Even though this is a short Special events, net of expenses $ 250,384 year, WhyHunger is proud that we continue to demonstrate responsible fiscal management, concomitant with the strong Other $ 213,016 impact of our programs and our dedication to our mission. Total Revenue $ 2,129,625 Our work is at the center of all we do, as reflected in another Expenses: strong fiscal year where we again ensured that over 87% of Program services $ 1,756,656 expenses were used for programmatic activities that directly fulfill our mission. Finally, during 2015, we received Supporting services $ 255,354 a permanently restricted endowment contribution, which Total Expenses $ 2,012,010 we hope will be the first of many that will build resiliency to sustain WhyHunger for the future. Change in Net Assets $ 117,615 For a complete copy of our audited Net Assets, Beginning of Year $ 1,599,118 financial statement, visit whyhunger.org. Net Assets, End of Year $ 1,716,733

Our Work is 87% of all expenditures go to programmatic activities that at the Center directly fulfill our mission Blain Snipstal, La Via Campesina Shalmali Guttal, Focus on the Global South Graça Samo, World March of Women Danny Peralta, The Point Statement International Day of Peasant Struggle Celebration, NY of Financial Position

December 31, 2015 Assets: Cash $ 260,066 Investments $ 427,557 Receivables $ 922,050 Prepaid and other assets $ 42,326 Fixed assets, net $ 365,148 $ 2,017,147

Liabilities and Net Assets Liabilities: Grants payable $ 138,549 Accounts payable and other liabilities $ 161,865 My commitment to WhyHunger has been both personal and professional. As a longtime fan of Harry Chapin, Total Liabilities $ 300,414 I was already familiar with his charity and with Hungerthon. I have had the privilege of getting to know and work closely Net Assets: with the WhyHunger Staff since 1994. Many of us in the Unrestricted $ 1,183,435 CBS Radio New York family go back a long way with this special group and we feel very strongly about the amazing Temporarily restricted $ 433,298 partnership our two families have enjoyed. I am extremely Permanently restricted $ 100,000 proud of our commitment and what we all continue to Total Liabilities $ 1,716,733 achieve in the fight to end hunger and poverty.”

– Scott Herman, Chief Operating Officer CBS Radio Executive Management Board of Directors Advisory Board Team

Seth Saltzman – Chair Scott Haugenes Robin Batteau Brian McMorrow Noreen Springstead Senior Vice President, ASCAP Head of Sales, estrellaTV Musician/Lyricist/Performer Senior Project Manager, Abonmarche Executive Director

David Miller – Vice Chair Paul C. Kurland Diane Blagman Hon. Jerrold Nadler Bill Ayres Partner, Cohen, Rabin, Stine, Senior Director of Government Affairs, Congressman of the Tenth Congressional Ambassador & Co-Founder Regional Vice President Joe’s Crab Shack, Schumann, LLP Greenberg Traurig, LLP District of New York/Member, U.S. House Ignite Restaurant Group of Representatives (D NY) Alison Meares Cohen Ken Lesnik Frank Brunckhorst Senior Director of Programs Stephen J. Beninati – Treasurer Managing Director, Performing Arts - Chair, Boar’s Head Provisions Company, John Poelker First Vice President, Senior Portfolio Spectra Ticketing & Fan Engagement Frank Brunckhorst Co., LLC Owner, Apple Transportation, Inc. Joy Curtin Manager, Financial Advisor, Senior Director of Finance & RBC Wealth Management Loretta Muñoz David Buskin Patrick Sullivan Administration Assistant Vice President of Pop/Rock Musician/Lyricist/Performer/Playwright CEO, Source3 Creative and Special Projects, ASCAP Debbie Grunbaum Alan C. Handell – Secretary Hon. Shirley R. Watkins Senior Director of Communications President, NY Prints LLC Hon. Walter Carrington Bich Ha Pham Retired U.S. Foreign Ambassador Deputy under Secretary of Agriculture Senior Vice President, Anat Gerstein Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to (1993-1995); Author Caren Berlin Senegal and Nigeria CEO and Co-founder, Janet Poppendieck Gold N Fish Marketing Group Author/Professor Emerita, Hunter College Stephen Chapin Musician/Lyricist/Performer Jen Chapin Scott Ryan Musician/Songwriter/Performer Director, Lord Abbett Hon. Thomas Downey Chairman, Downey McGrath Group; Tom Chapin Charles J. Sanders former member US House of Attorney/Special Counsel, Songwriters’ Representatives (D NY) Musician/Songwriter/Performer/ Guild of America, Inc., StarClub, Inc. President, Sundance Music, Inc Michael Francesa Judy Tint Radio Talk Show Host/Television Cliff Chenfeld Attorney in Private Practice Commentator, WFAN/Fox Sports 1 Co-founder and CEO, Razor & Tie Direct, LLC Karen Washington Hon. Patrick Leahy Farmer/Community Organizer/Activist/ Member, U.S. Senate (D VT) Joe D’Urso Co-Owner of Rise&Root Farm Musician/Songwriter/Performer Jane Finn Levine Bob Wolk Co-Founder and Co-Director, Owner, Rockland-Bergen Music Festival Director, Sage Educational Enterprises Kids Can Make a Difference (KIDS)

David Edelstein Michael Wildes Laurence Levine Managing Director, Managing Partner, Co-Founder and Co-Director, eyeball a creative design agency Wildes & Weinberg, P.C. Kids Can Make a Difference (KIDS) List current as of publication WhyHunger is building Every a movement from the 1,950 We saw a 35% jump gift matters! grassroots to create a of you gave to this year’s in recurring donors and our Your average gift in 2015 was world that is healthier, Hungerthon, monthly giving circle is now $132.50 and 46% of your more sustainable, more helping us raise a fueled by 136 sustained donations were less than $50 equitable, and – above record-breaking givers, bringing in $28,000 – and we are grateful for all, free from hunger. The $850,000! in new annual income! every single cent! most essential ingredient of any movement is people. Whether you’ve You Asked, We Answered planted, partnered, If you had five minutes with our Executive Director, marched, volunteered, Noreen Springstead, what would you ask her or say to her?” advocated, or given, you How can I help on a local basis? But giving to single organizations often matter to us and to this Our Find Food database is the most only strengthens single communities. Thank comprehensive of its kind with over Giving to WhyHunger means that movement. We simply 20,000 food access organizations all some of your money will go directly cannot thank you enough over the country and growing. Over the to community organizations on the years, millions of hungry people have frontlines in the fight against hunger, for your vital role in this used this database through call, text, but some of your money will also work. Here’s a snapshot or online search to find food in their support the bigger picture – building of what you brought to neighborhoods. But you can use it to alliances between grassroots find organizations in your community organizations, shifting the national WhyHunger in 2015. where you can volunteer! Just visit: narrative about hunger and how You! whyhunger.org/findfood, text your to end it, training and developing zip code to 1-800-548-6479, or call grassroots leaders, advocating for 1-800-5HUNGRY to find somewhere to policy changes. The struggle to end You Inspired Us with your Passion and Commitment get involved! hunger has many facets and it requires Why should I donate to WhyHunger many different organizations working We conducted our first donor survey, and we loved reading your responses and pondering your questions. and not give directly to the worthy together and doing what they do best. When we asked “What inspires you to give to WhyHunger?” Here are some of the things you said: organizations that WhyHunger supports? If you can support specific community If you are able, you should do both! efforts and the broader social change I started giving because of the radio I am appalled that people can [I’m inspired by] Harry Chapin’s Giving to grassroots organizations is work, then we can all be more effective marathons during Thanksgiving but go hungry in this country. I will sincerity and recognition that just a critical part of ending hunger and in achieving our common goal of a building the movement for food justice. world free from hunger! keep giving because there are still continue to help in whatever handing out food to people will not hungry people.” way I can to change that reality.” resolve the nation’s hunger problems.” Have more to share or more questions to ask? Let us know! Email [email protected] We completely changed food in the soup kitchen – we got rid of all processed food, we started buying whole foods… We changed Find us online: everything.

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