The Hunger Blog

Updated 10/18/24What’s Happening?On Thursday, September 26, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region as a powerful Category 4 storm. With maximum sustained winds of 140 mph and storm...

What's Happening?Hurricane Milton makes landfall in the Tampa Bay, Florida area on Wednesday evening - which is home to 3.3 million people. The storm is expected to bring sustained winds...

Our environment informs the kind of person we become, whether consciously or subconsciously. For Beatriz Angeles, it was during a mental health training for Santa Barbara County Promotores Network that...

Nicholas "Thomas" Guerra, a member of the Latino community, spoke passionately about his journey and how it shaped his path towards a career in occupational therapy. "Being Latino, I grew...

There’s a song that Whitney Houston popularized called the “Greatest Love of All.” The lyrics: ‘I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the...

What’s Happening?On Monday, August 5, Hurricane Debby made landfall on the Gulf Coast of Florida as a Category 1 storm. It has since weakened to a Tropical Storm, but it...

There are so many people working towards ending hunger every day – volunteers, food bank staff, food pantries, donors, and more – they all play a crucial role in ensuring...

When kids are fed, they have the fuel to thrive. At school, free meals fuel kids to thrive while they learn, play and grow. In the summer, those meals aren’t...

Kaycee perches atop her grandmother’s kitchen counter; the smell of baking bread wafting from the oven. She’s just 3-years-old at the time, but years later Kaycee remembers the scene perfectly;...

Ashley Walker has always been interested in ways to ensure that communities have access to healthy, reliable food. Growing up in a rural South Carolina community, she remembers her family’s half-hour...