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 of 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 seen 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 shares what we witness in those communities. Our goal is to deepened 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. The most effective wakeup call we know is to allow people to see and learn things they would not see in any other way.
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
- 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 - Re-Energizing
- I am always amazed by both the depth and breadth of my coworkers here at Share Our Strength. Though I have only worked here for a little over a year...
Tags: hinges of hope - 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 - Hinges of Hope in Philly
- After a year and a half with Share Our Strength, I’ve attended Taste of the Nation parties, held Great American Bake Sales, sent out emails for A Tasteful Pursuit dinners,...
Tags: hinges of hope, naho, witnesses to 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: disaster relief, 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
