WhyHunger is a leading advocate for innovative, community-based solutions to hunger and poverty. WhyHunger challenges society to confront these problems by advancing models that create self-reliance, economic justice, and equal access to nutritious and affordable food. WhyHunger Programs:
The Global Movements program works through international and US civil society networks to link WhyHunger’s domestic work on hunger and poverty to global movements for food sovereignty and the basic rights to food, land, water, and sustainable livelihoods for all people. The Nourish Network for the Right to Food collects, develops and distributes information and resources to help build the capacity of EFPs to address the immediate needs of struggling families and individuals while promoting self-reliance and access to healthy food. The Nourish program includes the WhyHunger National Hunger Hotline (1-800-5HUNGRY) which refers people in need anywhere in the US to food pantries, soup kitchens, government programs and model grassroots organizations. The Grassroots Action Network provides capacity building services, mentoring, training opportunities, and technical assistance to organizations that are actively forging new ideas to transform communities and end hunger and poverty. Together with a network of over 8,000 grassroots organizations, we share their innovations, mobilize resources, and connect them to each other in order to support their work to build healthier, sustainable communities that develop local food systems and strengthen local economies. Artists Against Hunger & Poverty enlists performing artists to raise funds and awareness for the most innovative and effective community-based organizations fighting hunger and poverty on the frontlines in cities, towns and villages all across the world. whyHunger offers artists, the artists community, and the music industry an opportunity to take a stand by using their voices and resources effectively – doing what they already do so well. Through music we can all make a difference in the world.
