Link and Learn

We've gathered links to anti-hunger organizations near and far. Here you can get a brief description of their work and move directly to their Web sites. Please visit us again but remember, wherever you end up, bring the food and work for justice.

Local Organizations

Aid for Friends: www.aidforfriends.org
Aid for Friends provides weekly home-cooked dinners, friendly visiting, and supplemental outreach services to isolated, primarily elderly shut-ins.

Campaign for Working Families: www.gpuac.org
The Campaign for Working Families promotes free filing of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and connects low-income Philadelphia residents to other tax credits, public benefits and asset-building resources. This year, the Campaign filed tax returns for more than 10,000 individuals, resulting in EITC, other credits, and refunds in the amount of $15 million. The Coalition Against Hunger is pleased to be a partner in this effort, providing easier access to food stamp benefits.

The Food Trust: www.thefoodtrust.org
The Food Trust works to improve access to affordable, nutritious food, enhance the health of children and adults through better nutrition, support local farms, and encourage environmental sustainability.

The Grow Clinic: www.publichealth.drexel.edu/GROW/Grow_Clinic/16/
The GROW Clinic is a multidisciplinary team-based clinic at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children that focuses on young children with 'failure to thrive' and their families. Families whose children are identified as underweight are referred to The GROW Clinic, where a multidisciplinary team provides a comprehensive plan to improve nutrition and promote growth for the child and family.

Jewish Relief Agency: www.jewishrelief.org
The Jewish Relief Agency is an organization whose aim is to identify and feed needy Jewish families in the Greater Philadelphia region.

MANNA: www.mannapa.org
Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance (MANNA) provides home-delivered and congregate meals, along with nutritional counseling and education, to people at acute nutritional risk with a life threatening illness (such as cancer and HIV) in the Delaware Valley.

The Mitzvah Food Project: www.jewishphilly.org
Sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, the Mitzvah Food Project coordinates the distribution and collection of non-perishable food and personal care items. Under its auspices, five pantries operate in the area offering assistance regardless of income or religion.

NORTH, Inc. (WIC Program): http://www.northwic.org/WIC/index.html
NORTH is a nonprofit health promotion organization that manages the Supplemental Food and Nutrition Education Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), a in Philadelphia County. The WIC Program serves to safeguard the health of low-income women, infants, & children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk by providing nutritious foods to supplement diets, information on healthy eating, and referrals to health care.

Nutritional Developmental Services: www.ndsarch.org
As an agency of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Nutritional Development Services(NDS) runs many food drives during the year benefiting local soup kitchens and food cupboards. NDS also serves as the administrator of several federally funded Child Nutrition Programs at local schools and community centers.

Philabundance: www.philabundance.org
Philabundance works to end hunger and malnutrition in the Greater Philadelphia region by rescuing surplus food and distributing it to local organizations serving people in need. Twenty-seven percent of the food produced in the U.S. goes to waste while millions go hungry, a contradiction this organization is fighting to change.

Philadelphia Corporation on Aging: www.pcaphl.org
The Philadelphia Corporation for Aging (PCA) connects older people to such important food and nutrition services as meals on wheels, group dining at senior centers, and other benefits programs and entitlements.

SHARE: www.sharefoodprogram.org
SHARE (Self Help & Resource Exchange) is a community-based nonprofit community-building network that provides wholesome and nutritious food to families and individuals. SHARE and its regional affiliates purchase food together, thereby enjoying bulk purchasing discounts. The savings are passed on to consumers who contribute two hours of community service. SHARE, based in Philadelphia, also distributes food packages to emergency feeding programs as a part of Pennsylvania's publicly supported State Food Purchase Program and the federally funded TEFAP.

Pennsylvania Organizations

Just Harvest: trfn.clpgh.org/harvest/
Just Harvest is a membership organization promoting economic justice, influencing public policy, and mobilizing the citizens of Allegheny County to combat hunger issues.

Pennsylvania Hunger Action Center: www.pahunger.org
The Pennsylvania Hunger Action Center is a statewide anti-hunger group working to prevent hunger through public policy advocacy, publications, technical assistance, and networking. Visit its site to get the latest information on hunger in Pennsylvania, nutrition resources, pending legislation, and issues on which to advocate to your state and national elected representatives.

National Organizations

America's Second Harvest: www.secondharvest.org
A network of food banks and food rescue programs providing emergency food assistance.

Brandeis University Center on Hunger: www.centeronhunger.org
A resource and research center for hunger and poverty issues.

Bread for the World: www.bread.org
A Christian lobbying organization focusing on national and world hunger issues.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: http://www.cbpp.org/
One of the nation's premier policy organizations working at the federal and state levels on fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals.

Congressional Hunger Center: www.hungercenter.org
Fights hunger through leadership development programs. Visit its site for additional hunger links.

Food Research and Action Center: www.frac.org
FRAC is a nonprofit and nonpartisan research and public policy center that serves as the hub of an anti-hunger network for individuals and agencies across the country. Visit its site for links to other national, state, and local anti-hunger organizations.

MAZON: www.mazon.org
Allocates monetary contributions from the Jewish community to emergency feeding programs and advocacy programs nationwide.

National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness: www.nscahh.org
Resource and action center for students interested in hunger issues.

Presbyterian Hunger Program: www.pcusa.org/hunger
Fights huger nationally and worldwide through direct food assistance, education, and advocacy.

Share Our Strength (SOS): www.strength.org
Mobilizes the culinary industry as anti-hunger advocates.