Since 1984, Share Our Strength® has led the fight against ending hunger in America by inspiring and organizing individuals and businesses to share their strengths. We have raised more than $200 million to fight hunger around the globe. We have invested critical funds in more than 1,000 hunger-related organizations to help the most effective organizations sustain their efforts and maximize their capacity to deliver results.
How We Will End Hunger: Share Our Strength believes that years of public and private progress have put the goal of ending hunger within our grasp. Our strategy is to surround every person with nutritious food in the places they live, learn, and thrive. To do so, we work with local organizations to help families and individuals help themselves through three important areas: increasing access to the public and private programs that can provide food to those who need it, strengthening the community infrastructure for getting healthy food to children and teaching families and individuals how to get the most nutrition out of a limited budget.
Leadership: With innovation and creativity, Share Our Strength has earned a reputation as one of America's most effective non-profits. The key to this success has been a philosophy of identifying and empowering leaders -- bringing new people into the cause of ending hunger and helping them find their unique way to share their strengths to make an impact. Over the years, we have helped expand the scope of our work by engaging some of America's most talented and successful chefs to take a leadership role in this effort, providing a way for thousands of community activists to expand their resources and the impact of their activities, and forging partnerships that have put leading corporations on the front lines battling to end hunger.
Share Our Strength's Impact Since 1984: Over the past 23 years, Share Our Strength and our thousands of volunteers, chefs, and corporate partners have had a significant impact on the state of hunger in the United States and abroad, such as:
- Share Our Strength has helped guarantee that anyone hungry in America today has a place to go and get something to eat. We helped build the emergency food assistance network in the U.S. by financing everything from construction and transportation to staffing and evaluation at a level and with a consistency unsurpassed by any other funder.
- Share Our Strength has helped save tens of thousands of lives worldwide. Our grants have made the difference between life and death for people living in famine-struck nations and developing nations worldwide as well as for our low-income neighbors right here at home.
- Share Our Strength has dramatically increased the ranks and diversity of anti-hunger activists. We have recruited and motivated thousands of new leaders -- from restaurateurs to schoolchildren to Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists -- into the fight to end hunger.
- Share Our Strength founded Operation Frontline®. We have been on the frontline of hunger by teaching adults and adolescents how to get the most nutrition out of a limited budget.
.
