About Childhood Hunger

How Bake Sales Fight Childhood Hunger

Share Our Strength Helps Ensure No Child Goes Hungry

How can you help end childhood hunger?

  • Host a bake sale! Your bake sale will create awareness and help educate the community about an issue that is often ignored: childhood hunger in America.
  • Funds raised support No Kid Hungry, Share Our Strength’s campaign to end childhood hunger in America by 2015.
  • You can host a bake sale based on your schedule and in your community. It’s an easy and fun way to help kids. Roll up your sleeves, pre-heat your ovens, and bake a difference!

Why support Share Our Strength?

Share Our Strength is a national organization working hard to make sure no kid in America grows up hungry. We weave together a net of community groups, activists and food programs to catch children who are struggling with hunger and surround them with nutritious food where they live, learn and play.

Our national strategy and its supporting 10-point plan are the result of many discussions and much collaboration among public officials and leading national, state and local hunger-relief organizations, among them the Food Research and Action Center and other members of the National Anti-Hunger Organizations.

We know we cannot end childhood hunger alone. This is why our approach is to build partnerships with organizations across the country whose dedication to ending childhood hunger is as strong as our own.

How We Will End Childhood Hunger

We believe we can end childhood hunger by creating state-based childhood hunger partnerships, granting funds to effective organizations whose work supports our national strategy, expanding Operation Frontline, and increasing our advocacy efforts.

We will have ended childhood hunger when all children in America have reliable daily access to the nutritious food they need to thrive.

Since its founding, Share Our Strength has raised $265 million to support our mission. Our grant program has provided support for more than 1,000 organizations working to end hunger. In 2009, we funded more than 300 organizations across the country.

Share Our Strength’s work is not limited its grant program. Recently, we launched a state by state initiative to work with governors and elected officials to establish a plan to end childhood hunger in their state. Current state partnerships include: Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Washington, and the District of Columbia.