The Center is a community-engaged research, service, advocacy, and policy center of Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health in Philadelphia with the goal of developing innovative, empirically-tested solutions to hunger and economic insecurity The Center for Hunger-Free Communities knows that those with first-hand experience of poverty and hunger are essential to finding effective solu
tions for economic insecurity. We partner with these community members, using our expertise in multi-faceted, rigorous academic research, to test and fine tune innovative solutions to systemic problems in hopes that together we can change our world. The Center for Hunger-Free Communities addresses hunger in all its forms by engaging in partnership with families, researchers, policymakers, and community leaders to:
* Find solutions to hunger and poverty based on science and the human experience
* Report on the health consequences of hunger and poverty to ensure accountability and enable action
* Engage those who have experience with poverty as full partners in developing research, policies and programs that promote health
* Establish and support opportunities to build peace, nourishment and a sense of shared community through our research, testimony and action
We are committed to freedom and justice through fighting against all forms of oppression, exclusion, and discrimination - including but not limited to racism, classism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, and ableism - in the world, in our communities, and in ourselves.
