Chef Aarón Sánchez cooks with youth from EcoStation:NY Bushwick, Brooklyn Photo by: Diane Bondareff ANNUAL REPORT 2013-2014 We’ve learned from working with WhyHunger that there is a wider movement. There are barriers we all face and we are not alone in overcoming them. It’s been great to have a connection to a world that realizes that trying to get more food is not the answer and to admit that we can’t solve the problem through emergency food is ok.
— Amanda Nickerson Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard, Bloomington, IN Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard Photo by: Josh Franer MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Dear Friends, As this report looks back at our many accomplishments, it also There is a new way forward that invests in sustainable food marks a moment of reflection and change at WhyHunger. production, the dignity of farmworkers, the power of youth and After decades of steadfast leadership, our co-founder Bill Ayres work that pays a living wage. We see it in the success of our transitioned from his role as Executive Director to Ambassador partners organizing in the fields of Florida for better working while embarking on a legacy campaign to ensure a sustained future conditions; in the stories of innovation, resilience and justice for our work. Bill thoughtfully carried the work forward that he woven together in our new digital storytelling site; in the case studies and best practices for sourcing healthy food embedded in and Harry Chapin started so many years ago – from helping to our capacity building guides for emergency food providers; and start the very first National Hunger Hotline and the Presidential in the community transformations in Haiti, Sri Lanka, Mali, and Commission on Hunger; to connecting millions of children and Brazil fueled by investments in local agroecological practices. We families to nutritious, affordable food and government programs; see the persistent power of music to catalyze change though the to providing millions of dollars in direct support and partnership work of our incredible artist ambassadors and new initiatives like to build the capacity of grassroots organizations across the US. And the Homemade Jams campaign and Summer Meals Rock for Kids. now it’s time for me to lead the organization in a way that seizes on WhyHunger is actively engaged in building powerful and unified the opportunities the years ahead will provide us. Hunger is at an networks and alliances that are working at the intersection of the all-time high in the United States and millions of people around the root causes of hunger and poverty to transform the food system world struggle to meet their basic needs, yet we must look beyond while ensuring access to nutritious food for people in need. We must look simply feeding to creating a food system that nourishes our bodies As we look forward to celebrating our 40th anniversary, we are and our communities. Your ongoing support at this critical juncture beyond feeding to eager to share with you our new way forward and invite you to keep in our history is more important than ever. learning about the power of community organizations building food create a food system WhyHunger remains steadfast in our work to solve hunger justice, the burgeoning agroecological approaches that produce by digging deep to tackle the root causes, support grassroots healthy food and conserve soil and water, and our new initiative to that nourishes form the Nourish Network for the Right to Food. We’re honored to movements and promote food justice for all. The time has come have you as supporters and look forward to a deeper engagement for us to take bold steps to transform the predominant model of our bodies, with each of you as we build the movement to end hunger. charitable food distribution as the solution to hunger into a more our communities equitable and inclusive social justice movement that unites us all Peace, around the belief that everyone has the right to nutritious food. and our planet. This framework is creating broad alliances that prioritize people and planet over the profits championed by big agribusiness at the Noreen Springstead expense of our personal health and our earth’s ecology. Executive Director — Noreen Springstead I support WhyHunger because they not only help meet daily food needs, but seek to change our attitudes, systems and politics that perpetuate those needs. With the food crisis we need to move beyond sympathy and recognize it as a justice issue.
— Phil Kaufmann CIW’s Concert and March for Fair Food, FL Artists Against Hunger & Poverty Ambassador Photo by: Jake Ratner OUR MISSION 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. WhyHunger ABOUT WhyHunger Envisions: Founded in 1975 by the late musician Harry Chapin and radio DJ Bill Ayres, resilient, powerful WhyHunger is a grassroots support organization working with thousands of and unified networks and alliances of community-based groups and social movements across the country and around the grassroots leaders world to fight hunger and poverty. An award-winning global non-profit, WhyHunger and community-based is helping to build the movement to end hunger and poverty and create a just and organizations working sustainable food system that recognizes everyone’s right to nutritious food. at the intersection of the root causes of WhyHunger brings its unique assets and history to building a broad-based social hunger and poverty to movement to end hunger. Our set of core values rests on the understanding that build and strengthen solutions and innovation are often found in the grassroots. WhyHunger’s programs movements to work to support these community-based organizations as they grow and develop, transform our current and bring new ideas and practices to creating a just food system that provides food system into universal access to nutritious and affordable food. one that nourishes whole communities WhyHunger provides capacity building services, technical support and access and ensures the to information and financial resources to community organizations and social rights of all people movements implementing new ideas and developing groundbreaking projects to to food, land, water and sustainable transform their communities. We build networks of grassroots organizations that livelihoods. share a vision of healthy, sustainable and self-reliant communities leading to greater mobilization and stronger advocacy to end poverty and hunger. The Nourish The Grassroots The Global The WhyHunger Artists Against Network for the Action Network Movements Hotline refers people Hunger & Poverty Right to Food works in partnership with Program supports in need across the U.S. offers artists, the artist is working with emergency community-based leaders, and partners with social to food pantries, soup community and the music food providers, community organizations and networks to movements and networks to kitchens, summer meals industry the opportunity to health organizations and build a movement for a just build international solidarity sites, government nutrition use their voices to support the other grassroots and and equitable food system and advance the goals of programs and grassroots movement to end hunger and national allies to transform in the US. By supporting food sovereignty and the organizations, especially poverty. Through members the charitable response to and promoting grassroots basic rights to food, land, those that provide access like Bruce Springsteen, Jackson hunger in the U.S. into a leadership, WhyHunger water and sustainable to nutritious foods and Browne, Chicago, Darryl “DMC” more equitable and inclusive works to build capacity for livelihoods for all people. nutritional support services. McDaniels, Brandi Carlile and social justice movement that community organizing and Call 1(800) 5-HUNGRY or visit more, over $13 million has been recognizes nutritious food as to accelerate the collective whyhunger.org/FindFood raised to support innovative a human right. impact of community-based to locate a local emergency and effective community-based strategies for food justice. food provider and other organizations fighting hunger support services. and ensuring the right to CORE nutritious food for all. PROGRAMS
La Finca Del Sur Community Garden, Bronx, NY Photo by: WhyHunger ACCOMPLISHMENTS WhyHunger HOTLINE 1-800-5HUNGRY
Hungerthon: Storytelling: Sharing Resources: Connections to Combating The Power of Hungerthon, WhyHunger’s WhyHunger believes that WhyHunger released Beyond Nutritious Food: Childhood Hunger: Music: signature public outreach storytelling is a powerful tool Bread, a capacity building WhyHunger helps more During the summer months, Continuing to grow the and fundraising campaign, that can educate, inspire, guide for emergency food than 351,387 hungry when childhood hunger in the Artists Against Hunger & raised more than $821,000 engage and shape our providers on innovative Americans each year to U.S. peaks, WhyHunger and Poverty program, WhyHunger and engaged millions through collective understanding of ways to source healthy food, find emergency food in their our partners helped the USDA partnered with top-level radio broadcasts, live events, the food justice movement. which highlights the best neighborhoods and connect connect 2.4 million children to artists, like The Eagles, Paul media coverage and social We launched Community practices, case studies, to federal nutrition programs free, nutritious meals in their McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, media in 2014. More than a Voices, a new digital how-to’s and stories from like SNAP through our online communities through more the Dirty Heads and Chef dozen radio stations including storytelling website that dozens of emergency food database and national than 128,000 text messages, Aarón Sánchez, our first ever SiriusXM Satellite Radio, profiles over fifty community providers across the country. WhyHunger Hotline. web searches and hotline Chef Ambassador, to raise CBS Radio Group and the leaders and organizations that With a robust online library Together with our grassroots calls. By building the country’s funds and awareness for iHeartRadio stations in New are working to regain control of resources, our expanded partners in communities all only comprehensive database childhood hunger through our York City partnered for this of their communities’ food, Get Info web portal provides across the country we are of over 43,600 summer meals new Summer Meals Rock Thanksgiving Day tradition, and Food Justice Voices, in-depth information, stories, helping seniors, veterans, sites, we were able to help for Kids campaign. which included an online a new series of publications actions and multimedia working families, children and communities in all 50 states auction with over 200 unique that feature leaders on the detailing how we grow, individuals in need access access nutritious meals for experiences and memorabilia front lines of the food justice process and eat our food, why nutritious food all year round. their children. from top musicians, athletes movement telling their own people are hungry and what and personalities. stories. communities are doing to reshape their food systems.
*Please note that WhyHunger’s fiscal year runs from April 1st through March 31st and that some of the financial results listed above will be reflected in the forthcoming FY15 financial audit. Homemade Investing in Strengthening Linking Supporting Cohorts Amplifying Impact: Support: Communities: Social Movements: Communities of Grassroots WhyHunger joined the The Homemade Jams: Mobilizing the resources of WhyHunger provided over Globally: Leaders: national Hunger Is 100 House Concerts to companies, funders and others $227,000 in the form of WhyHunger coordinated site WhyHunger pioneered advisory committee to work End Hunger campaign, in direct support of and in 24 grants in 20 countries visits and facilitated learning partnerships with a national collaboratively with the which helps fans and solidarity with our partners, through the International exchanges and partnerships alliance of youth-based Safeway Foundation and musicians raise funds and WhyHunger provided Solidarity Fund to between two major social food justice organizations, the Entertainment Industry awareness by hosting over $132,000 in direct strengthen the capacity of movements in Brazil with facilitated strategic linkages Foundation to raise awareness house concerts, has taken grants and stipends and social movements in the communities in the U.S. between small farmers and about childhood hunger WhyHunger to the living in-kind donations of Global South to support struggling to protect their farmworkers building towards in America while investing rooms, backyards, wineries 65,137 nutritious meals communities in developing land and water rights for cooperative economic models, in grassroots solutions and concert halls of to 31 community-based collective agroecological food production. WhyHunger and continued to develop a helping kids. Through this supporters across the country. organizations on the front practices and advocating for also facilitated an exchange New Mexico/Texas collective partnership, we are having True to WhyHunger’s musical lines of the fight against hunger themselves. Through building between two African leaders leadership training anchored a direct impact on hunger roots, this campaign has in the US in 2014. By coupling strong relationships and with who traveled to the U.S. to by Latino communities along through grants to support the engaged hundreds of fans, this critical financial support active participation, support participate in a forum to the border. work of our partners and are artists and donors in the fight with resource sharing, and facilitation in numerous deepen alliances between U.S. able to share voices, stories to ensure that everyone has training, technical learning exchanges, networks and African movements for and perspectives from the access to nutritious food. assistance, on-going and alliances – like the US food sovereignty. grassroots to help inform the partnerships and allyship, Food Sovereignty Alliance national agenda of this new WhyHunger is investing in both – WhyHunger is working to initiative. increased access to healthy advance the growing food and the long-term goal global movement for of building a sustainable, just food sovereignty and food systems in the US. justice.
Our evolution is unique in that we had WhyHunger as a partner and funder that didn’t throw funds at us and tell us what to do, but rather provided technical assistance and allowed us to create a model that worked for us. — Deborah Moore, Board Chair, Delta Fresh Foods Initiative, MS Yoko Ono Photo by: Hard Rock International/ Tsutomu Fujita Artists in ACTION AP Images for Invision Tapping into the power of music to raise funds, increase awareness and catalyze change, WhyHunger’s Artists Against Hunger & Poverty connects artists, fans and the music community to the movement to end hunger and poverty.
Lissie Photo by: Scott Gries/Invision for Hard Rock International/AP Images Fab Faux Photo by: Diane Bondareff
Chef Aaron Sanchez Photo by: Diane Bondareff Summer Meals Rock for Kids
Blurred Vision Photo by: WhyHunger As a band we make music to inspire & bring positivity into people’s
Jen Chapin Photo by: SiriusXM lives. We have a strong
Toby Lightman message that we write & Homemade Jams sing about. We felt it was time to take action on that message & actually do Martha Redbone Photo by: Diane Bondareff something about it. That’s why we chose to partner up with WhyHunger, an organization that’s
Davy Knowles Homemade Jams changing lives on a daily basis. We’re excited and honored to work with
The Dirty Heads such a great cause. Photo by: Lori Berkowitz for Hard Rock
— The Dirty Heads Artists Against Hunger & Poverty Ambassador IMAGINE a WORLD WITHOUT HUNGER WhyHunger’s global Imagine There’s No Hunger campaign, with the support of Hard Rock International and Yoko Ono Lennon, challenges the charitable approach to ending hunger by supporting local grassroots partners in building their own capacity to develop sustainable agroecological solutions to nourish, empower and advance their own communities. Inspired by John Lennon’s vision of a world at peace and free from hunger, the campaign calls for the rights to land, water, seeds and training to ensure all children, and their families, have access to nutritious food and a dignified life without hunger.
The Imagine There’s No Hunger campaign has:
PANAMA Kuna Yala: HELPED communities grow Kuna Youth Movement enough food to provide an estimated 9.7 million meals to families in need.
PARTNERED with 33 grassroots organizations and social movements in 20 countries around the globe to increase sustainable food production practices for a future free of hunger.
ACTIVATED and educated tens of Charity will not end chronic thousands of supporters across the globe through #ImagineNoHunger. food insecurity; addressing the broader social problems RAISED more than $6.4 million to help nourish, educate and and policies perpetuating support 83,000 children worldwide. hunger and poverty will. PANAMA Kuna Yala: Kuna Youth Movement Located in the Kuna Yala territory off the coast of Panama, the Movimiento de La Juventud Kuna, or MJK, is working with indigenous women and children to provide healthy foods for themselves and their families using traditional methods of farming and oral tradition. With Imagine support: ∆ 300 children and 150 families were provided with healthy, traditionally harvested meals through school gardens ∆ A women-led agroecological farming project growing pineapples, rice and plantains for the women, their families and their community was piloted SRI LANKA National Fisheries Solidarity Movement (NAFSO) KENYA Common Ground for Africa (CGA) Through an agroecological model they call “Grow Biointensive,” CGA focuses on sustainable agriculture and healthy eating, while also providing 25 primary school-aged orphan girls with the opportunity to attend secondary school. With Imagine support: KENYA Common Ground for Africa ∆ Enough healthy food was produced to provide more (CGA) than 300,000 meals to 530 students and 95 adults ∆ Agricultural trainings were provided to communities, impacting the lives of 2,250 people
SRI LANKA National Fisheries Solidarity Movement (NAFSO) NAFSO is a national movement of fishers, farmers, and families in Sri Lanka that works with women- ASIA: AFRICA: NORTH AMERICA/ CENTRAL SOUTH headed fishing families who lost the husband and China Ghana CARIBBEAN: AMERICA: AMERICA: father at sea and who are without a source of food India Kenya Dominican Republic Guatemala Colombia and income. With Imagine support: Indonesia Lesotho Haiti Nicaragua Venezuela ∆ Chickens, seeds and tools were provided for home gardens 20 Myanmar Liberia United States Panama ∆ Enough food was produced to ensure 300 children and COUNTRIES Sri Lanka South Africa their families were nourished Thailand Uganda The Power of STORYTELLING
WhyHunger believes that storytelling is a powerful tool that can educate, inspire, engage and shape our understanding of the food justice movement. Telling one’s story is not only an act of reclaiming in the face of dominant food narratives, but also an affirmation that the small acts of food sovereignty happening across the world add up to a powerful, vital collective.
In 2014, WhyHunger launched Community Voices, a new digital storytelling website that profiles dozens of community leaders and organizations that are working to regain control of their communities’ food.
Visit grassroots.whyhunger.org to read their stories.
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March 31, 2014 2013 FINANCE Revenue: Unrestricted In Fiscal Year 2014, WhyHunger again was one of the Individual contributions $145,851 $577,461 country’s leading high performing charities with over Foundation grants and corporate donations $574,540 $279,594 87% of expenses being used for programmatic activities Artists Against Hunger & Poverty/Hungerthon $780,706 $844,018 that directly fulfill our mission. Special events, net of expenses $164,747 $261,035 We are proud of our achievement of the respected Government grants and contracts $461,521 $450,000 Charity Navigator four-star rating for the fourth Other $482,088 $581,397 consecutive year. It reaffirms our strong commitment to Total Revenue $2,609,453 $2,993,505 sound fiscal management, good governance, and other Expenses: best practices that ensure WhyHunger is consistently executing its mission in a responsible way. Program services $2,743,178 $3,284,938 Supporting services $420,359 $334,565 For a complete copy of our audited financial Total Expenses $3,163,537 $3,619,503 statement, visit whyhunger.org. Change in Net Assets $(554,084) $(625,998) Net Assets, Beginning of Year $1,741,169 $2,367,167 Net Assets, End of Year $1,187,085 $1,741,169
Our Work is 87% of all expenditures go to programmatic activities that at the Center directly fulfill our mission The Entertainment Industry Foundation with Statement The Safeway Foundation, our partner in the Hunger Is initiative, is delighted to collaborate with WhyHunger as a of Financial Position member of our Hunger Is Advisory Committee. WhyHunger provides invaluable insights and assistance as we work March 31, 2014 2013 to distribute grants aimed at achieving a critical goal: Assets eradicating childhood hunger in the United States. Cash $202,746 $730,055 — Lisa Paulsen President and CEO, The Entertainment Industry Foundation Investments $394,127 $334,035 Accounts receivable $500,211 $315,012 Prepaid and other assets $77,141 $99,209 For the fourth year in a row, Fixed assets, net $643,513 $652,506 WhyHunger received the $1,817,738 $2,130,817 highest rating of four stars for excellence in fiscal Liabilities and Net Assets management, accountability Liabilities: and transparency from Grants payable $299,450 $240,000 America’s leading independent charity evaluator, Charity Accounts payable and other liabilities $331,203 $149,648 Navigator. Total Liabilities $630,653 $389,648 Eighty-seven cents of every Net Assets dollar raised goes directly to Unrestricted: programmatic work, so when Operating $781,897 $1,401,288 you donate to WhyHunger you can be sure the money is Board designated endowment fund $405,188 $339,881 spent responsibly. Total Net Assets $1,187,085 $1,741,169 $1,817,738 $2,130,817 Executive Management Board of Directors Advisory Board Team
Edward Barron David Miller Robin Batteau Hon. Patrick Leahy Noreen Springstead Director of Federal Relations, (Vice Chair) Musician/Lyricist/Performer Member, U.S. Senate (D VT) Executive Director Bayer Corporation Director of Operations – North America East, Hard Rock International Diane Blagman Jane Finn Levine Bill Ayres Stephen J. Beninati Senior Director of Government Affairs, Co-Founder and Co-Director, Ambassador & Co-Founder (Treasurer) Loretta Muñoz Greenberg Traurig, LLP Kids Can Make a Difference (KIDS) First Vice President, Senior Portfolio Assistant Vice President of Pop/Rock Alison Meares Cohen Manager, Financial Advisor, Creative and Special Projects, ASCAP Frank Brunckhorst Laurence Levine Senior Director of Programs RBC Wealth Management Chair, Boar’s Head Provisions Company, Co-Founder and Co-Director, Bich Ha Pham Frank Brunckhorst Co., LLC Kids Can Make a Difference (KIDS) Joy Curtin Jen Chapin Senior Vice President, Anat Gerstein Inc. 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Pledge Music Ellen Blum Run Against Hunger Dan Duggan Collection XIIX Shore Fire Media Charlotte Prince Steve Brick R Fata $50,000-$99,999 Cotton Patch Gospel Food Project Bill Harvey The Reba & Patric Sinisalchi Fund RBC Royal Bank Christian Brindel Heifer International Marian & Tom Filan Hard Rock International Thomas Covert Michael Sisk Kristine Reck Claudia Callaway Lynne Hippeau Susan Fitzsimons Newman’s Own Foundation Cultures of Resistance Network Galen Smith Ellen Rockmuller Caravan Management Alex Holz FJC Foundation Brian Smith & Kaliope Kostas Vashti Roebuck Angela Carbonaro Marcia Holz & Bruce Holz Gary & Carol Friedman $25,000-$49,999 Brian Doolan Diane & Don Sommerville Rosso Pizzeria Enoteca LLC Julie Carlson Kathy Horvath John Galloway Steve Buontempo Downey McGrath Group, Inc. Richard Steinbaum William Ryan & Jeanne Lightfoot Rob Carothers Scott House Ralph Gallucio Ford Foundation Stephen Eversull Steiner Sports Memorabilia, Inc. 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