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In April 2023, in alignment with National Volunteer Week (April 16-22) and Global Youth Service Day (April 28-30), the Congressional Hunger Center is launching a five-day online End Hunger Challenge to promote awareness of food insecurity and the steps that … Read more
Current and most recent classes of Emerson and Leland Fellows and Zero Hunger Interns. The Hunger Center is accepting applications for the next classes of Mickey Leland International and Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowships and the Zero Hunger Internship. Whether … Read more
In January 2023, the Congressional Hunger Center will offer a concentrated version of the End Hunger in 30 Challenge, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Day of Service. The MLK Day of Service End Hunger Challenge will last five … Read more
Above: 5th Class Zero Hunger Interns at the 2022 Hunger Leadership Awards in Washington, D.C. On July 29, the 5th Class of Zero Hunger Interns presented proposed solutions to food insecurity across the country. The interns were grouped by region … Read more
Join us virtually July 29 at 1 p.m. EDT as the 2022 Zero Hunger Summer Seminars conclude with final presentations from the 2022 Zero Hunger Interns. The interns will share research and recommendations on ending hunger across the U.S., focusing on a … Read more
If you’ve been following along with the Zero Hunger Summer Seminars, you naturally have some interest in ending hunger—and hopefully some ideas on what will be needed to accomplish it. But hunger is a symptom of underlying problems, and any … Read more
We live in the statistical age. Advances in statistical methods and data processing have provided us with a stupefying amount of information. It has never been easier to find trustworthy numbers to illustrate the scale and scope of food insecurity, … Read more
For many people living in the U.S., global food security is a topic only encountered through news reports of disasters happening elsewhere in the world. Presented with media images of suffering, supposedly powerless people, most react with a sense of … Read more
As we’ve seen in the last two sessions of the 2022 Zero Hunger Summer Seminars, strong public policy is essential for addressing food insecurity in the U.S. But how is public policy created? And how can people who care about … Read more
We are delighted to announce the members of the 5th Class of Zero Hunger Interns. These developing leaders will spend 10 weeks over the summer expanding the impact of anti-hunger organizations in Washington, D.C. Even as parts of the world … Read more
Attendees at last week’s session of the 2022 Zero Hunger Summer Seminars were introduced to policies that promote food security here in the U.S. But a discussion of how to end hunger once and for all is incomplete if it … Read more
Updated 06/09/2022 at 9:03 am In recent years, the United States has made great strides in reducing hunger for its residents. By 2019 national averages of food insecurity were finally approaching lows last seen before the financial crisis of 2008. … Read more
