Our Impact

Share Our Strength has raised over $200 million and provided support for more than 1,000 nonprofits working to end hunger

Since 2004 when we launched our strategy to end childhood hunger in America, we have achieved these significant milestones:

• Published our national strategy and supporting plan to end childhood hunger in America.
• Established childhood-hunger partnerships in Washington, Florida and the District of Columbia, complete with start-up funding.
• Laid the groundwork for at least four more such partnerships by 2009.
• Established the Partnership to End Childhood Hunger and Obesity with the Centers for Disease Control.
• Helped 17,000 low-income families learn how to eat better for less through Share Our Strength Operation Frontline courses.
• Introduced Share Our Strength’s Great American Dine Out to involve a broader cross-section of America in ending childhood hunger.

In addition, our grants have helped hundreds of organizations reach millions in meaningful ways:

• Served 40.2 million meals to kids
• Established 926 new afterschool and summer feeding sites
• Taught 200,000 kids about healthy foods and food choices
• Grew 2.5 million pounds of produce in community gardens.
• Referred nearly 2 million people to food and nutrition assistance programs