No Kid Hungry by Share Our Strength

No Kid Hungry is ending childhood hunger by making sure every kids gets three meals a day. Every kid. Healthy food. Every Day. Hunger and poverty are complex and daunting. But childhood hunger in the United States is a problem we know how to overcome and have the tools to solve. By harnessing our federal child nutrition programs effectively and with flexibilities that help families and communities, we can end childhood hunger in America.

School & Community Meals: We help schools and local nonprofits get the resources and guidance they need to feed kids three meals a day. We provide free webinars, best practices, and guides so frontline meal providers can share solutions and navigate changing regulations.

Grants: We distribute grants for equipment to launch and grow feeding programs, from meal carts to delivery trucks to safety equipment. We deploy our grants using an equity lens to ensure that communities of color and isolated rural communities that have been underserved are supported.

Advocacy & Awareness: We work with elected leaders to effect broad change and with chefs, celebrities, and influencers to raise awareness about ending childhood hunger. Through our meal finder services are kids and families can find free healthy meals right in their neighborhood with a quick online search or text.

Research: We leverage experts, data, and tools to uncover new ways to reach isolated and underserved communities with dependable nutrition. To harness innovation we conduct community-based pilots to test new feeding strategies.

Early Childhood: Having healthy nutrition is the best start in life. We help parents and caregivers of young children ensure their kids have the food they need before they’re old enough for school. We work with healthcare systems to reach parents with healthy food through medical providers.

Share Our Strength is an innovator, driving positive change and seeking meaningful reforms in programs that feed children. We’re the only national organization singularly focused on ending childhood hunger in America.

Founded in 1984, Share Our Strength works to ensure that all children have the food they need to grow, learn, and achieve meaningful, productive futures. In 2010, we launched No Kid Hungry® (NKH), a national campaign to end childhood hunger in America that works to ensure that kids have access to meals where they live, learn, and play. We engage in collaborative partnerships, provide targeted grantmaking and carry out national initiatives that raise awareness and mobilize action. In addition to investments in all 50 states, we currently lead 15 active campaigns to achieve No Kid Hungry through the execution of a robust three to five-year strategic plan in Arkansas, California, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, North Carolina, Nevada, New York, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.

With a presence in all 50 states, No Kid Hungry has connected kids with nearly 1 billion meals. Through our efforts, 2.9 million more kids are eating school breakfast and one-third few kids were struggling with the burden of hunger (prior to the pandemic).

Since the pandemic began, No Kid Hungry has provided over $100 million in grants to help schools and community groups feed children. These grants support home-delivered meals, pop-up meal programs, school and community pantries, backpack programs, and other programs that reach children and families who have lost access to school meals. The coronavirus hit communities of color especially hard, leading to higher rates of illness and unemployment. With that in mind, we prioritized grants to schools and organizations serving Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities.

73% percent of our support has gone to organizations working primarily in communities of color. More than one-third of our support reached rural areas. We will continue to make grants to support the sustainability and expansion of school meals programs, as well as support the expansion of summer meal programs, and our priorities regarding federal benefits enrollment for children and families.