Understanding Hunger

What is Share Our Strength?

What is Share Our Strength?

Check out everything that Share Our Strength does to help ensure that no child ever has to grow up hungry.

The Crisis: Childhood Hunger

The Crisis: Childhood Hunger

Childhood Hunger

17 million children in the US—that’s nearly one in four—struggle with hunger.

Undernourished children suffer from:

Impaired cognitive development
Long-term emotional & health problems
Decreased educational attainment
Decreased productivity

TEACHER SURVEY RESULTS (Share our Strength National Survey)
Too Many Kids are Coming To School Too Hungry to Learn
62% of teachers say they see children who regularly come to school hungry each [...]

Share our Strength's 10 point plan

Share our Strength’s 10 point plan

Share our Strength, our national partner in ending childhood hunger by 2015 has a 10 point plan in place to do just that. We would like to make you aware of this plan.
At Share Our Strength, we don’t just talk about ending childhood hunger in America-we have a strategic plan to do it. It begins [...]