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Home / Society / Issues / Poverty / Hunger / Regional / United States
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- Almanac of Policy Issues: Food and Nutrition - Background information and links on U.S. domestic hunger policy, including programs like WIC, food stamps, school lunch, and school breakfast programs.
www.policyalmanac.org/social_welfare/food.shtml
- America's Second Harvest - America's Second Harvest is the nation's largest hunger relief organization, distributing food to 26 million hungry Americans each year.
www.secondharvest.org
- Center on Hunger and Poverty - Conducts research and policy analysis on hunger and poverty in the US; promotes asset development; analyzes household food security.
www.centeronhunger.org
- Coalition on Human Needs: Food and Nutrition Issues - Background information, legislative analyses, status reports on pending bills, and links on the food and nutrition issues from the Coalition on Human Needs, a coalition of major U.S. anti-poverty organizations.
www.chn.org/food
- Country Bo's Meals On Grills - Country Bo's Meals on Grills, Inc. is a non-profit charitable tax-exempt organization, provides meals to the homeless and underprivileged families in North Central rural Kentucky.
www.mealsongrills.org
- Crossroads Christian Ministries - Crossroads collects surplus food from supermarkets, distributors, bakeries and other sources and distributes it to other organizations who feed the poor and hungry in San Diego, Tijuana.
www.mindspring.com/~bobdi
- Domestic Food Security and Hunger Briefing Room - Reports and measurement tools on the topic of food security and hunger in the United States, from USDA.
www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/foodsecurity
- Feinstein Center for a Hunger Free America - The Hunger Center is a partnership between the University of Rhode Island and the Feinstein Foundation dedicated to bringing the issue of hunger to the forefront of America's conciousness.
www.uri.edu/endhunger
- Food Bank of Northern Nevada - Organization devoted to feeding the hungry and eliminating hunger in Nevada.
www.fbnn.org
- Food Bank of South Central Michigan - A non-profit hunger-relief network, providing food, advocacy and education on hunger issues, linking 225 non-profit agencies in southcentral Michigan.
www.foodbankofscm.org
- Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) - National anti-hunger organization that lobbies on behalf of Food Stamps, the Women Infants and Children (WIC) program, and other federal food and nutrition programs.
www.frac.org
- FRAC - Public Attitudes Toward Hunger - The public is very concerned about what is seen as a growing hunger problem.
www.frac.org/html/hunger_in_the_us/public.html
- Harvest for Hunger - It's a regional food and fund drive which helps to feed the hungry in Northeast Ohio coordinated by the Greater Cleveland Committee on Hunger.
www.harvestforhunger.org
- Hosea Feed The Hungry and Homeless - Hosea Williams Feed the Hungry and Homeless is a nonprofit oprogram operates under the umbrella of the Martin Luther King Jr. People's Church of Love. The church is a 501(c)3 corporation incorporated in the State of Georgia as a domestic, nonprofit corporation.
www.hoseafeedthehungry.com
- National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) - Uses demographic research and program and policy analyses to identify and promote strategies that reduce young child poverty and that improve the lives of poor young children. "There are over 14 million children living in poverty in the United States. More than 5 million of them are under age six. The young child poverty rate is significantly higher in the United States than in other Western industrialized nations."
cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/nccp
- Northwest Harvest - Supports food for people by various fund raisings including sale of cards.
www.northwestharvest.org
- Second Harvest - Hunger: The Faces & Facts - An unprecedented study of who's hungry in America, where they go for food, and the health and social consequences of widespread hunger.
www.secondharvest.org/whoshungry/hunger_study_intro.html
- Share With The Other L..A. - Hunger emergency is a consortium of poverty relief groups and public officials whose goal is to mobilize the public to end the poverty crisis in L.A. County.
lapoverty.org
- World Hunger, Ltd. - Atlanta, Georgia based charity with a mission to fight local and global hunger, involves the distribution of food to local food agencies (such as food shelters, soup kitchens, missions, churches and food pantries) in communities where funds are being raised through their Vendor Outreach Program.
www.worldhungerltd.org
- FRAC - Hunger in the U.S. - Approximately four million American children under age 12 go hungry and about 9.6 million more are at risk of hunger according to estimates based on the results of the most comprehensive study ever done on childhood hunger in the United States - the Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project (CCHIP)
www.frac.org/html/hunger_in_the_us/hunger_index.html
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