Thank You for Your Generosity!
In 2024, generous supporters helped put meals on the table for millions of kids. Thanks to those donations, No Kid Hungry and our partners helped children in communities just like yours gain access to the essential meals they need to grow and thrive.
Fueling Kids' Futures
No Kid Hungry’s success wouldn’t be possible without the tireless heroes on the ground who are delivering healthy meals to children every day. And our work wouldn’t be possible without the support of generous donors who ensure kids in your community and across the country get three meals a day, 365 days a year.
With the help of our partners – including schools, community organizations like food banks, and state agencies, we are there to help make sure every child has a full belly and a bright future. We do this work through grants, partnerships, and sharing resources like best practices to further school breakfast programs, ensure summer meals reach kids in rural communities, and to help families to sign up and use benefit programs.
And we do more than meals.
Advocating for Kids
We’re not just in the classroom or school cafeteria. We are active in Washington, DC and in state capitals across the country working to change the foundational issues that cause childhood hunger. And we’ve had some big wins this year.
- Our No Kid Hungry lobbying teams helped more students in Texas and Louisiana fuel their day with school meals. In June 2023, Governor Abbott’s approved state budget included $6.6 million over the next two years to provide free breakfast to all Texas children currently receiving reduced price school meals. Additionally, Louisiana Governor Bel Edwards signed a bill into law that helped 7,000 children who had previously paid a reduced fee for school breakfast and lunch to receive those meals at no cost.
- From July 2022-June 2023, we helped secure several state policies that provided over $940 million in state investments in school meals, and we secured $484 million in expanded Child Tax benefits to families with children. This increased state funding provides over $1.4 billion in meals, services, and benefits that directly help children and their families.
1 in 5 Kids Still Faces Hunger
Even with great progress, 1 in 5 children still faces hunger in America today. We are prioritizing these four key initiatives to help reduce childhood hunger:
- School Breakfast. We’re continuing to partner with schools and community organizations to increase student participation in school breakfast, so kids can start each day with a nutritious meal, ready to learn.
- Summer Meals. We know that ending summer hunger has enormous health, education, and economic benefits for kids and families, which is why closing the summer hunger gap is one of our top priorities. We’re making sure families can maximize their grocery buying power by providing grant funding to support the implementation of Summer EBT. We’re also reaching families in hard-to-reach rural areas through a new flexible summer meals program that helps them access multiple days’ worth of meals through pick-up and delivery services.
- Nutrition Benefits Access. Millions of families in the United States rely on assistance programs that help parents feed their children. We’ve invested over $8.4 million to connect families to nutrition benefits like SNAP and WIC with our partner the American Public Human Services Association. Our goal is to improve the systems that children rely on – and help more families enroll for benefits.
- Family Economic Mobility. We’re looking at how we can address the root causes of hunger and investing in family economic mobility for single moms. This includes continuing to support state-level policies, such as increasing and expanding the Child Tax Credit – a proven strategy for boosting the financial stability of hundreds of thousands of single mothers.
We continue to move the needle on these top priorities, but we need your continued help. Every $1 can help provide 10 meals for kids in your community and across the country. Will you help feed kids today with a donation to support our work?
