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Right to Food Resources


Connect with one of the many organizations seeking to fulfill the right to food in the United States.

The Advocates for Human Rights
A leader in bringing international human rights to the classroom and the community. Provides educational resources and trainings to support the human rights movement in the United States.

Bread for the World
A collective Christian organization that urges U.S. decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad. By changing policies, programs and conditions that allow hunger and poverty to persist, they provide help and opportunity for many communities.

Community Food Security Coalition
A diverse U.S. coalition dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food to all people at all times. They seek to develop self-reliance among all communities in obtaining their food and create a system of growing, manufacturing, processing, and selling food that is regionally based.

Congressional Hunger Center
Trains leaders about the causes of and solutions to hunger and homelessness, and the appropriate humanitarian responses; facilitates collaborative efforts among organizations critical to the design of policies aimed at ending hunger in the U.S. and abroad; and increases public awareness about the nature, root causes, and solutions to hunger.

Feeding America
The nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity. Their mission is to feed America’s hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.

Feed the Children International
The heart of Feed The Children’s U.S. program is distributing food to families in need. To do this, they work closely with caring corporate partners that donate surplus food and other supplies, as well as with individual donors who help defray the cost of transporting product donations.

Freedom from Hunger
Brings innovative and sustainable self-help solutions to the fight against chronic hunger and poverty. Together with local partners, they equip families with resources they need to build futures of health, hope and dignity.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Committed to helping build a world without hunger, focusing especially on rural areas.

Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)
The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is the leading national non-profit organization working to improve public policies and build public-private partnerships to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the U.S.

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy.

Mazon
A Jewish citizens’ movement that works in the U.S and around the globe to bring critical relief to millions of hungry families.

Meals on Wheels
Works toward the social, physical, nutritional, and economic betterment of vulnerable Americans. Their programs provide nutritious meals and other services to the elderly, homebound, disabled, frail, or at risk to improve their quality of life and postpone early institutionalization.

National Family Farm Coalition
Provides a voice for grassroots groups on farm, food, trade and rural economic issues to ensure fair prices for family farmers, safe and healthy food, and vibrant, environmentally sound rural communities in the U.S. and around the world.

OXFAM America
An affiliate of Oxfam International, Oxfam America is an international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice. Oxfam saves lives, helps people overcome poverty, and fights for social justice.

The United Way
The United Way works to create lasting positive changes in communities and people’s lives through helping communities identify the underlying causes of their most significant issues, develop strategies and pull together financial and human resources to address them. Alleviating hunger in the U.S. is one of the main issues addressed by the United Way.

World Hunger Year
A leading advocate for innovative, community based solutions to hunger and poverty. Their work challenges society to confront these problems by advancing models that create self-reliance, economic justice, and equal access to nutritious and affordable food.