Accomplishments
Selected Accomplishments in Field Work
1994 - 2002

In the last eight years, National Hunger Fellows have:

• Researched and wrote a Community Food Security Needs Assessment for Hawaii, established a coalition made up of various anti-hunger and poverty organizations throughout the state, and coordinated the Hunger Summit Conference for Hawaii's first-ever hunger summit.
  
  
• Conducted extensive interviews with low-income Idahoans utilizing emergency food program, and completed a video documenting their stories as well as general poverty and hunger in Idaho.
  
  
• Developed and implemented a Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Farmer's Market Nutrition Program for the State of Arizona, whereby WIC recipients gained access to the fresh produce of Arizona's farms.
  
  
• Developed a presentation titled "Hunger: A Picture of Washington." The presentation is a statewide educational tool kit that gives an understandable, digestible overview of the state of hunger in Washington. It is an all-inclusive presentation kit, containing a power point presentation, presenter's guide, handouts, and technical guide. The kit is designed as a tool for Washington anti-hunger advocates to use in raising awareness about hunger and the availability of resources, and is available online at: http://www.fremontpublic.org/hungerwa.html
  
  
• Co-authored a report on Food Stamp Program participation in New York State, including a compilation of data about responses to the emergency food system in New York City following the September 11th disaster.
  
  
• Developed a hands-on "Gleaning Notebook" to help Idaho food programs build more gleaning sources and contacts and produced an educational twelve-part television series on food recovery and gleaning in Florida City, Florida.
  
  
• Planned and facilitated the South Carolina Anti-Hunger Network's statewide conference, "Hungry Children Can"t Learn: Hunger Issues in Education," and developed a local resource guide for Spanish-speaking clients using Emergency Food Pantry clients in South Carolina.
  
  
• Published: One Day, One Pantry, One Life; Hunger in Ohio: People, Issues & Solutions.
  
  
• Developed informational videos to serve as educational and marketing tool for the Food Depot in Santa Fe, the Idaho Community Action Network in Boise, and the Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee.
  
  
• Developed hunger curriculum lesson plans for grades 3-6 in Western Massachusetts.
  
  
• Established one of the country's first food banks on a Native American Reservation in Lame Deer, Montana, and organized the first conference addressing hunger on Reservations.
  
  
• Organized a basket-weaving cooperative on the Tohono O"odham Nation in Sells, Arizona.
  
  
• Initiated a Self-Help and Resource Exchange (SHARE) network in rural southern and central Kentucky to enhance the availability of low-cost food.
  
  
• Expanded a feeding program to include health services for homeless men in Detroit, Michigan.
  
  
• Coordinated Operation Frontline classes in partnership with Share Our Strength to educate young mothers about nutritious cooking in Wilmington, Delaware and Seattle, Washington.
  
  
• Assisted with the release of the 2001 America's Second Harvest Hunger Study. Fellows were involved with: compiling data from the national, state, and local reports, writing area companions to the national study, serving as organizers and Advisory Committee members for local release conferences, and participating in the release of this information to local agencies and the press.
  
  
• Conducted a food stamp participation survey and a Food Stamp Toolkit distributed to service providers throughout Ohio to assist them in simplifying the application process for Food Stamps.
  
  
• Conducted a 71-county survey of Wisconsin's emergency food pantries and meal programs to help the State of Wisconsin increase participation in federal nutrition programs.
  
  
• Conducted a study of senior food and nutrition programs in western Massachusetts. The host Food Bank and other service providers will use this report to improve services to the elderly.
  
  
• Designed and conducted the first statewide assessment of children's breakfast consumption in Wisconsin. The report, The State of Breakfast in Wisconsin, will be used to initiate a campaign to increase Wisconsin's participation in the federal school breakfast program.
  
  
• Researched and helped to implement a more efficient pre-order food delivery and distribution system for the host Food Bank in Massachusetts.
  
  
• Developed resources of New York State's Farmer's Markets so that they can utilize Electronic Bank Transfer (EBT) food stamps.
  
  
• Designed and coordinated the Homeless Garden Project's First Annual "Harvest Festival" in Santa Cruz, California.
  
  
• Completed, distributed, and promoted The Ohio Food Program and Ohio Agricultural Surplus Productions Alliance Manual. This detailed manual explains the best practices of the successful Ohio Agricultural Surplus program so that it can be duplicated in other states.
  
  
• Worked to establish "Kitchens In National Cooperation," a web site dedicated to the free, open, and deliberate exchange of information for community based training kitchens, their clients, and their partners.
  
  
• Developed a central kitchen that supplies sixteen feeding agencies with prepared meals in Santa Barbara, California.
  
  
• Organized a Hunger Advisory Council in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and 4 county-wide Agency Advisory Council in Massachusetts, all of which were comprised of community leaders that monitors food security issues.
  
  
• Established or enhanced Kid's Cafћ programs in Lubbock, Texas; St. Paul, Minnesota; Hatfield, Massachusetts; Missoula, Montana; and New Orleans, Louisiana.
  
  
• Created community garden networks in Seattle, Washington, Portland, Maine, and Santa Cruz, California.
  
  
• Researched and wrote a best practices report on Food Policy Councils in Eugene, Oregon.
  
  
• Designed and executed a survey to be used by the New York State Department of Health to expand outreach for the Child and Adult Care Food Program.
  
  
• Developed outreach and implementation of Summer Food Service Program sites in Washington State.
  
  
• Connected after-school programs in the Greater Pittsburgh area with the Child and Adult Care Food Program and coordinated local efforts to implement the Commodity Supplemental Food Program.
  
  
• Conducted a survey of Seattle-area Toddler Feeding Programs and created a network between Seattle-area universities and the Food Resources Department of Fremont Public Association (FPA).
  
  
• Created and implemented a Senior Commodities Home Delivery Program in Missoula, Montana.
  
  
• Created a 30-minute video outlining the realities of hunger in Vermont and coordinated a statewide Hunger Conference in Vermont.
  
  
• Established a satellite food distribution site at the Missoula Indian Center in Montana.
  
  
• Prepared USDA Food Stamp Access grant for a community agency in Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Established two new Food Drive coalitions within the Health Care and Legal communities in Hawaii.
  
  
• Implemented food salvage programs in Binghamton, New York; Grand Forks, North Dakota; Wilmington, Delaware; Incline Village, Nevada; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and at Williams College, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
  
  
• Established a community kitchen in St. Paul, Minnesota, a food pantry in Truckee, California and a mobile food pantry in Raleigh, North Carolina.
  
  
• Created a cash donation coupon system at supermarkets to benefit local area anti-hunger agencies in Chicago, Illinois.