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The Coalition receives phone calls and emails each day from people who want to get involved in the fight against hunger. Most often, people look to volunteer at a local food pantry or soup kitchen. For these requests, we direct volunteers to our Food Pantry Map, which was recently updated and now includes more than 400 food pantries and soup kitchens, many of which could use volunteers to work a shift or serve a meal. 

You have often heard us talk of our immediate, short-term and long-term relief efforts. At the moment, we can think of nowhere that needs more immediate relief than Southeastern Texas. 

If you are reading this blog post, you most likely live in our region- Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware - and care about hunger. If, like us, you are looking for a way to help,  consider making a donation to the Houston Food Bank.

No child should go hungry just because school is out.

Even as students prepare to go back to class, the Summer Meals program continues to operate through the end of this week.

Hundreds of sites are still open to provide free Summer Meals to kids and teenagers in our area. Sites can provide breakfast, lunch and snack.

No one should go hungry in America. Since the 1960s, there has been broad bipartisan agreement on this principal, as well as an understanding that the government has a role to play in making sure that everyone in the U.S. has enough to eat. President Nixon, in 1969, said “that hunger and malnutrition should persist in a land such as ours is embarrassing and intolerable. Has something changed?