You can add your voice and your vote to support policies that make for a healthier, more equitable food system. These following organizations are committing to raising awareness and advocating for changes that reduce food waste, ensure better access to healthy food for our nutrition-insecure neighbors and increased support for our local farmers and food producers, while ensuring more regenerative environmental practices.
Civil Eats
https://civileats.com/category/food-and-policy/
Daily news and commentary about the American food system.
Feeding America
https://www.feedingamerica.org/
Working together to end hunger–Feeding America is the largest hunger-relief organization in the United States. We are a nationwide network of food banks, food pantries, and community-based organizations in the United States. We work to end hunger by providing food and support to millions of people.
Food Research & Action Center
https://frac.org/
FRAC improves the nutrition, health, and well-being of people struggling against poverty-related hunger in the United States through advocacy, partnerships, and by advancing bold and equitable policy solutions.
Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger
https://www.hungercoalition.org/
The Coalition connects people with food assistance programs and nutrition education; provides resources to a network of food pantries; and educates the public and policymakers about responsible solutions that prevent people from going hungry.
Hunger Free NJ
https://hungerfreenj.org/
Using a strategic combination of state and federal advocacy and local grassroot activism, Hunger Free New Jersey takes a comprehensive approach to solving hunger.
Hunger Free PA
https://www.hungerfreepa.org/
Hunger-Free Pennsylvania is the state’s largest nonprofit provider of food resources for hungry families and one of the state’s leading advocates in the fight against hunger. HFPA is the single largest provider of meals to older Pennsylvanians and needy seniors. Our statewide network of 18 food banks serves all 67 counties in the year-round battle to ensure a hunger-free Pennsylvania.
National Resource Defense Council
https://www.nrdc.org/
NRDC works to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.
NJ Food Democracy Collaborative
https://www.njfooddemocracy.org/
Build, grow, and empower a broad, connected, grassroots network of food system stakeholders, to democratically transforms the state’s food and agriculture system to be resilient, regenerative, equitable, and anti-racist.
Philabundance
https://www.philabundance.org/
Our mission is to drive hunger from our communities today and to end hunger for good. To do this, we work with over 350 community partners to distribute food throughout nine counties in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey and are a proud member of the Feeding America network.
Consumer Federation of America
https://consumerfed.org/about-cfa/
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is an association of non-profit consumer organizations that was established in 1968 to advance the consumer interest through research, advocacy, and education. Today, nearly 300 of these groups participate in the federation and govern it through their representatives on the organization’s Board of Directors. CFA is a research, advocacy, education, and service organization.
White House Conference on Hunger
https://health.gov/our-work/nutrition-physical-activity/white-house-conference-hunger-nutrition-and-health
On Wednesday, September 28, 2022, President Biden hosted the first White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health in over 50 years to bring Americans together to achieve a bold goal: End hunger and increase healthy eating and physical activity by 2030, so that fewer Americans experience diet-related diseases like diabetes, obesity, and hypertension.
ReFed
https://refed.org/
ReFED is a national nonprofit dedicated to ending food loss and waste by advancing data-driven solutions. We believe it’s possible to solve the food waste crisis. And informed action will get us there.
Food Fix
https://foodfix.co/about/
Food Fix is a new, in-depth publication about food policy in Washington and beyond. Helena Bottemiller Evich, an award-winning reporter who previously led food coverage at Politico, launched Food Fix to be the go-to source for food policy news and analysis, for insiders and consumers alike.
