Thanks to our donors, we’ve been able to get nearly a million pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables out to food shelves across the state. Through our HelpLine, we’ve helped thousands of families and seniors find emergency food and enroll in public nutrition programs. We’ve distributed more than one million dollars in grants to food shelves so far this year, and we’re working every day to advocate for better, smarter solutions to hunger and poverty in our state.
In a sign that mayors are going to get involved in the setting of nutrition policy in the farm bill, the U.S.
The USDA’s Economic Research Service’s technical definition of hunger or not having access to enough food for active, healthy lives for all household members; hunger or risk of hunger.