Alex Boyd

Originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Alex graduated from Beloit College with a degree in sociology and literary studies in 2015. While at Beloit, Alex interned with a local food and clothing pantry where he coordinated a food donation partnership with his campus meal service provider. He also spent a summer managing a community garden in a predominantly low-income neighborhood through a sustainability fellowship program. For the past two years, Alex has served as a member of Feeding America’s Child Hunger Corps program at the Food Bank of Central New York in Syracuse, NY. With the food bank, Alex conducted a community needs assessment to identify gaps in child hunger services across the food bank’s service area and worked with school districts and a school based pantry program to expand federal child meal programs to address these gaps.

Field placement: Philabundance

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Policy placement: Food Research & Action Center

Washington, D.C.

Hunger Free Community Report

Philabundance Agency Advocacy Toolkit is a resource intended to enable food pantry, soup kitchen, and other direct service providers to effectively advocate on behalf of state and federal anti-hunger programs. The toolkit includes information about how to develop a strong advocacy case and how to create an organizational advocacy plan.