Hinges Of Hope
Share Our Strength’s Hinges of Hope Programs connects leaders from the public and private sectors to local community organizations working to solve hunger and poverty challenges in their neighborhoods. Hinges of Hope accomplishes this through experiential learning trips that explore hunger in rural and urban areas and also by sharing stories and content collected during the trips.
“I found the trip to be one of the most effecting experiences of my life. The images we saw, the stories we heard, and the emotions we witnessed will stay with me forever. Thank you for opening my eyes and mind to the situation on the ground.”
—John Galloway, President, Atlantic Media
There are communities in America that we see as hinges of hope, because they simultaneously encompass both despair and promise, places where challenging conditions attracted amazing people who committed their lives to improving them. Such places can swing in a direction that allows hope to flow freely, or in a way that locks it out. These communities exist in every corner of the country — New Orleans, Roxbury, Anacostia, and the Rio Grande Valley.
Every year, Share Our Strength brings leaders into Hinges of Hope communities and then works to share what we witness in those communities. Our goal is to deepenen the understanding of childhood hunger in America and show the innovative solutions that will end it.
We want to attract new people to the cause of ending childhood hunger. Instead of preaching to the choir, we've tried to recruit for it. We believe the most effective means to do that is to allow people to see and learn things firsthand.
We hope that the dialogue created through Hinges of Hope will inspire and challenge more people to help end childhood hunger.
If you have any questions about Hinges of Hope, please contact Katherine Campbell.
Blog Posts About Hinges of Hope
- New Conversations
- Author Ellen Miller reflects on her experience at the recent Hinges of Hope tour in Dallas, where she witnessed the work Share Our Strength is funding to make No Kid Hungry.
Tags: hinges of hope, no kid hungry, texas - Tackling a Texas-Sized Problem: Visiting Our Partners in Dallas
- According to the USDA, Texas has the second highest food insecurity rate out of all the states. Last Wednesday, seven members of the Share Our Strength staff and twenty-eight leaders spent the day bearing witness to the realities of hunger in Texas and exploring together what it would take to end childhood in this state.
Tags: Hinges of Hope, hunger, state partnerships, statistics - Follow Us in Dallas Today
- Our staff and volunteers are visiting fundings sites in Dallas today. Learn about the trip and how you can follow along!
Tags: dine out for no kid hungry, Great American Dine Out, hinges of hope - Teenage Entrepreneurs That Any Smart Business Leader Would Hire
- Share Our Strength is a proud supporter of the Rise and Shine Co-Op program run out of the Florence de George Boys and Girls Club of Palm Beach. A group of extremely impressive teenage entrepreneurs have created a successful Food Co-Op business that helps provide fresh affordable food to families who struggle to have enough.
Tags: entrepreneurship, Hinges of Hope, teenagers - We're Visiting Partners in Florida Today
- Today, we're back in Palm Beach County, Florida where we’re joined by 38 community leaders and Share Our Strength supporters. Learn about the tour, which is part of Share Our Strength’s experiential learning Hinges of Hope events.
Tags: florida, hinges of hope, no kid hungry - Strengthening the Safety Net that Catches Kids Where They Live, Learn, and Play
- The last stop on the recent Share Our Strength Hinges of Hope® tour in Houston was a visit to the Holthouse Boys and Girls Club, an agency of the Houston...
Tags: childhood hunger, grantees, Hinges of Hope, poverty - Small Steps: Nurturing Houston's Children
- Small Steps Nurturing Center was a stop on Share Our Strength’s Hinges of Hope® tour in Houston last month for 22 of our top supporters and volunteers in the Houston...
Tags: childhood hunger, grantees, Hinges of Hope, poverty - A First Class Breakfast
- When I don’t eat breakfast, I am moody; I can’t focus, and I get very tired. We all have negative reactions to missing breakfast and so do kids who don’t...
Tags: childhood hunger, Hinges of Hope, school breakfast - The Lifelong Effects of Hunger
- Guest blogger Ruth Burrell, Executive Director of Kids’ Meals, Inc., recently posted about how Kids Meals, Inc. in Houston, Texas is bringing healthy lunches everyday to kids ages 0-5. Share...
Tags: childhood hunger, hinges of hope, infants and toddlers - Profile of a Houston Hero
- Share Our Strength is proud to fund the work of Ruth Burrell, Executive Director of Kids’ Meals, Inc. in Houston, Texas. Kids’ Meals, Inc. is the only “meals on wheels”...
Tags: childhood hunger, Hinges of Hope, houston - Seeing My Hometown Through a New Lens
- One of the children who is served by Kids Meals every day. Last week, I traveled with three other members of the Share Our Strength team to Houston, Texas,...
Tags: childhood hunger, education, school breakfast - Houston Schools Set A Standard For School Breakfast
- The Houston Independent School District is in the process of implementing the largest in-classroom breakfast program in the country. HISD’s new superintendent, Dr. Terry Grier, is leading the way to...
Tags: childhood hunger, houston, school breakfast - Mrs Kidd and the Collard Greens Thief
- On a recent Hinges of Hope tour, my colleagues and I met one of those women you could sit and listen to for hours. Mrs. Kidd, a 96-year old woman...
Tags: change, hinges of hope, hunger - Toledo's Almost Abandoned Beauty
- Last month, as we set out on a Hinges of Hope trip in Toledo, we couldn’t drive our rental car more than 100 yards without passing a boarded up abandoned...
Tags: hinges of hope, recession, Toledo Grows - A Real Holiday Feast
- Michael Szuberla, the brains and heart behind Toledo GROWS, once asked a bunch of the kids he works with in the edible community gardens what they typically eat for Thanksgiving...
Tags: hinges of hope, hunger, Toledo Grows - Letter from the site of a rescue operation
- Reporters cover rescue operations when they're splashy, but when it comes to malnutrition, they always seem to have something else to write about.
Tags: Cooking Matters, disaster relief, event, health care, hinges of hope, Operation Frontline - Letter from Dooky Chase's Restaurant in New Orleans
- Tuesday, April 22 was a long day for legendary New Orleans restaurateur Leah Chase. The 85 year old chef rose at 4:00 a.m. to prepare two meals. The first was...
Tags: disaster relief, dooky chase, education, hinges of hope, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans - Letter of Invitation to Bear Witness
- I wish you could have been with us toward the end of an extraordinary day last month, when Rick Russo, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Empire Falls, Nobody's Fool,...
Tags: bearing witness, disaster relief, hinges of hope - Museum News Contribution: The Power to Bear Witness
- For those of us who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Pittsburgh, one-time home of philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, the city's most prominent museum was not just part of...
Tags: bearing witness, disaster relief, hinges of hope, maine - Letter for the New Year
- Welcome back and best wishes for the New Year. I hope your holiday was filled with many blessings. As we look ahead, one blessing for which we can all be...
Tags: Hinges of Hope, SEED school, United Nations - Letter From the Border
- Bumper stickers usually make you smile. Some can make you cry. That's what I discovered after driving hundreds of miles last week through the poorest parts of the Mississippi Delta...
Tags: education, hinges of hope, philanthropy, school
