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🍲 Fighting Poverty, Homelessness, and Food Insecurity

1 in 6 American children do not know where their next meal is coming from. Moreover, 11% of America's population is living below the poverty line. These nonprofits are providing solutions to fight poverty, homelessness, and food insecurity. Join in their efforts to end poverty and hunger worldwide.

Kitchens For Good

Kitchens For Good

San Diego, CA

Kitchens for good works to develop sustainable community kitchens that provide culinary job training for unemployed populations while simultaneously transforming local excess produce into nutritious meals for the community.

Hearth, Inc.

Hearth, Inc.

Boston, MA

Hearth is a non-profit organization dedicated to the elimination of homelessness among the elderly. This mission is accomplished through a unique blend of prevention, placement, and housing programs all designed to help elders find and succeed in homes of their own. To this end, all housing operated by Hearth provides a creative array of supportive services that assist residents to age with dignity, regardless of their special medical, mental health, or social needs. Hearth believes these goals are best accomplished through respect for elders and staff, with the desire to see both achieve their highest degree of potential.

Feeding America

Feeding America

Chicago, IL

Feeding America is the largest hunger-relief organization in the United States. Through a network of more than 200 food banks, 21 statewide food bank associations, and over 60,000 partner agencies, food pantries and meal programs, we helped provide 6.6 billion meals to tens of millions of people in need last year. Feeding America also supports programs that prevent food waste and improve food security among the people we serve; brings attention to the social and systemic barriers that contribute to food insecurity in our nation; and advocates for legislation that protects people from going hungry.

Chef Ann Foundation

Chef Ann Foundation

BOULDER, CO

We provide school communities with the tools, training, resources, and funding that enables them to create healthier food and redefine lunchroom environments.

JOIN

JOIN

Portland, OR

JOIN exists to support the efforts of individuals and families experiencing homelessness to transition into permanent housing. Our efforts are directed at individuals sleeping outside or in their car in the Portland Metro area. Our service provision is not dependent on age, gender, race, ethnicity, faith, culture, language, sexual identity, specific diagnosis, or identifiable issue.

The Capital Good Fund

The Capital Good Fund

Providence, RI

Capital Good Fund is a nonprofit, U.S. Treasury-certified Community Development Financial Institution headquartered in Providence, RI. Our mission is to create pathways out of poverty and advance a green economy through inclusive financial services. Since 2009, we have financed over 5,000 small-dollar personal loans totaling $10.6 million (with a 95% repayment rate) and graduated more than 1,660 families through our Financial & Health Coaching program. As a social justice organization, we believe in the vision of Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner: to "put poverty into museums" through microfinance.

Filling In The Blanks Inc

Filling In The Blanks Inc

Norwalk, CT

The organization's mission is to fight childhood hunger by providing children in need with meals on the weekends.

City Harvest

City Harvest

Brooklyn, NY

City Harvest is New York City’s largest food rescue organization, helping to feed the nearly 1.2 million New Yorkers struggling to put meals on the table.

Urban Pathways

Urban Pathways

New York, NY

Urban Pathways ensures that homeless and at-risk New Yorkers have the housing, services and support they need to be self-sufficient.

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