2017 Annual Report

2017 ANNUAL REPORT Index 2 Officer Letter 3 Providing Nutritious Meals 4 The Journey of a Rise Against Hunger Meal 5 2017 Impact Results 6 Pathways to End Hunger 11 2017 Partners 12 Program Types 14 Distributing Life-Changing Aid 15 This is possible. 17 2017 Financials 18 Global Reach 19 Thanking Our Champions Photo Credit: Robert Seligson Our Mission Rise Against Hunger® is driven by the vision of a world without hunger. Our mission is to end hunger in our lifetime by providing food and life-changing aid to the world’s most vulnerable and creating a global commitment to mobilize the necessary resources. 1 Officer Letter Dear Friends, BOARD OF DIRECTORS In 2017, the United Nations Food & Agricultural Organization (FAO) reported that the number of hungry people increased to 815 million worldwide — 38 OFFICERS million more than the previous year. However, despite this setback, we are Chair: on a trajectory to end hunger. Over the last two decades, the number of Kate Day people experiencing hunger and malnutrition decreased from 24 percent to 11 percent of the world’s population. Based on this progress, the United Vice Chair: Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goal #2: Zero Hunger by 2030. Anne Bander Rise Against Hunger is aligned with global initiatives to end hunger and recognizes that we must step up our efforts in order to reach this ambitious goal. Secretary: Walter Gaskin Following the adoption of Sustainable Development Goal #2, we sought to broaden our impact and created our Pathways to End Hunger: Nourishing Treasurer: Lives, Growing the Movement, Empowering Communities and Responding David Hood to Emergencies. Since then, we’ve made significant progress, especially in our Empowering Communities and Responding to Emergencies programs. The year was marked by a historic hurricane season, and we were able to provide emergency assistance to nearly 114,500 people in the coastal U.S. BOARD MEMBERS and Caribbean nations reeling from back-to-back hurricanes: Harvey, Irma Leon Abbas and Maria. Lucy Dinner Jessica Graham We achieved some major milestones in 2017, and it proved to be our biggest Geoff Griffin year yet! We provided more than 72.1 million meals, served beneficiaries in 36 countries and ultimately impacted over 1.4 million lives. We engaged a Greg Guidotti record number of nearly 400,000 volunteers across the world and expanded Robin Hager our reach in the U.S., opening a dedicated location in the Chicago area. Gina Loften Anne Matthews Looking forward, we are committed to showing the world that it IS possible Bill Musgrave to end hunger in our lifetime. 2018 marks our 20th year as an organization, Bart Norman and we see a bright path to 2030 ahead. Our big plans include: Mack Parker • Promoting our Public Policy Agenda by engaging volunteers in Richard Skinner advocacy. Beth Watkins • Releasing our first-ever awareness campaign, This is possible., which Don Wight aims to educate and call the world to support and act on Sustainable Development Goal #2. Rod Brooks, • Engaging volunteers in eight new communities in Florida and California Ex-Officio by implementing a new supply chain model of meal distribution. Ray Buchanan, We know that ending hunger by 2030 IS possible, but we cannot achieve Ex-Officio it alone. The strides we have made in the past 19 years have been made possible by you, our dedicated volunteers, advocates, partners and supporters. Rise Against Hunger is in the fight against hunger for the long haul — all the way to 2030 and beyond! Sincerely, Rod Brooks President & CEO 2 Providing Nutritious Meals Across the world, approximately one in three people are malnourished. Rise Against Hunger meals are fortified with essential vitamins and nutrients, enriched rice, soy protein and dehydrated vegetables to combat malnutrition. Once cooked, Rise Against Hunger meals contain a total of 23 vitamins and minerals. One Rise Against Hunger meal bag contains enough nutritional value for six servings. Providing healthy meals to beneficiaries in need takes us one step closer to eliminating malnutrition and ending hunger. RICE We use white rice because it is more cost efficient and takes less time to cook. Partners season our meals with tastes to each region's liking. VEGETABLES Dehydrated vegetables are added for nutritional value and flavor. SOY Rise Against Hunger uses soy protein because it is vegetarian and is a significant source of protein for our meals. MICRONUTRIENTS Provided by Kraft Heinz, our micronutrient sachets contain 18 essential vitamins and minerals. The contents of the sachet are added in after the meal is cooked through. Since 2013, the Kraft Heinz Company Foundation has contributed funding and technical expertise to help Rise Against Hunger improve the composition of the micronutrient sachets in our meals. In 2017, the foundation provided more than 12 million sachets that added micronutrients to 72.1 million Rise Against Hunger meals. 3 The Journey of a Rise Against Hunger Meal Transported Harvested Packaged & Boxed Nourished Shipped Cooked & Distributed Served & Stored HARVESTED: Rice is the most vegetarian meal. Meals are COOKED & SERVED: Our meals commonly consumed grain with packed into boxes that are include instructions on hygiene regard to human nutrition and stored in warehouses until they and safe cooking practices. Most caloric intake. Along with soy or are ready to ship internationally. locations customize the meals lentil proteins, vegetables and into local dishes and add either vitamins, rice is the fourth and SHIPPED: Boxes of meal bags vegetables or protein. Meals final ingredient in our meals. are packed inside a shipping are served in schools, vocational container, leave a warehouse training programs, medical TRANSPORTED: The rice we and make their way to one of clinics, maternal health facilities, use is sourced locally whenever the countries where our Impact child and youth development possible, and transported to Partners operate their programs. centers and elder care facilities. one of our locations around the world. From there, staff inventory DISTRIBUTED & STORED: NOURISHED: Meals attract and store the rice along with the Our Impact Partners transport people to education and other meal ingredients. the meals safely from the ports wellness programs and prevent to their program sites. The meals dropouts — especially among PACKAGED & BOXED: can travel thousands of miles girls — while simultaneously Volunteers across the globe before they reach their final alleviating short-term hunger and come together to package meals destination for distribution at enabling communities to rise and for those in need. Rice and other schools, orphanages, clinics or break the cycle of poverty. dry ingredients are combined vocational centers. into a meal bag that, with water, becomes a highly nutritious 4 36 2017 Impact Results COUNTRIES SERVED KEY Impact Areas International Locations U.S. Locations 1,404,110 LIVES IMPACTED 56.2% 35% SCHOOL, 11.6% YOUTH CHILD & YOUTH CHILDREN DEVELOPMENT UNDER 5 72.1 MILLION 398,264 $26.1 MILLION $6 MILLION Meals packaged Volunteers engaged In-kind Total value of crisis worldwide worldwide donations assistance provided MEAL PACKAGING Lynchburg, VA INTERNATIONAL COAST-TO-COAST Nashville, TN Washington, DC Metro Area LOCATIONS 21 U.S. LOCATIONS New England India Atlanta, GA New York, NY Italy Charlotte, NC Northern California Malaysia Chicago, IL* Orlando, FL Philippines Dallas/Fort Worth, TX Philadelphia, PA South Africa Eastern North Carolina Pittsburgh, PA Houston, TX Raleigh, NC Indianapolis, IN *IN 2017, RISE AGAINST HUNGER Richmond, VA Jackson, MS SELECTED A DEDICATED COMMUNITY Southern California ENGAGEMENT MANGER TO DEEPEN Kansas City, KS OUR ENGAGEMENT IN CHICAGO, IL 5 36 COUNTRIES SERVED To end hunger by 2030, aligned with the U.N. Sustainable Development Goal #2 of Zero Hunger, KEY Rise Against Hunger works in four focus areas known as our Pathways to End Hunger: Nourishing Lives, Impact Areas Empowering Communities, Responding to Emergencies International Locations and Growing the Movement. Through these Pathways, we seek to provide immediate nourishment for those in U.S. Locations need today, while implementing sustainable solutions to hunger for tomorrow — solutions that will lift entire communities for years to come. 1,404,110 LIVES IMPACTED 56.2% 35% SCHOOL, 11.6% YOUTH CHILD & YOUTH CHILDREN DEVELOPMENT UNDER 5 72.1 MILLION 398,264 $26.1 MILLION $6 MILLION Meals packaged Volunteers engaged In-kind Total value of crisis worldwide worldwide donations assistance provided Rise Against Hunger supports the Sustainable Development Goals. 6 Pathways to End Hunger In a Coastal Philippines Village, Children are Recovering from Malnutrition Imagine life in a rural coastal village in the Philippines, in a home above a makeshift chicken coop. Think of the smells, the sounds and the feeling of worry of where your next NOURISHING LIVES meal will come from. With little income, you are concerned about your own health and the We nourish lives by meeting the most basic and wellbeing of your child. This was the reality for immediate needs of vulnerable people around Ramely, a mother living in Iloilo City. Things the globe and supporting safety net programs started to change for Ramely’s family when that provide nourishment and skills training to they began receiving nutritious Rise Against aid the difficult journey out of poverty. Hunger meals through partner International Our meals are distributed in partnership with Care Ministries. local organizations like schools, encouraging Ramely says the meals are a great help to increased enrollment and attendance for young her family, particularly her son, Alter. Alter students — especially girls. Partnerships with has gained weight — he was previously hospitals and clinics provide increased nutrition underweight — and recovered from for patients to complete their treatments. In malnutrition. In addition to providing regular 2017, we distributed more than 72.1 million nutrients, the meals also help Ramely to save meals, with nearly 38.1 million meals going money as she no longer has to spend her directly to Nourishing Lives initiatives.

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