Put your time and strengths to good use for Team No Kid Hungry. We have volunteer opportunities to end child hunger for every skill and interest – pick your favorites:
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On average, students who eat school breakfast earn 17.5% higher math scores, attend more days of school, and are 20% more likely to graduate. Learn more and tell us how schools in your community serve school breakfast.
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Your donation helps Share Our Strength recruit summer meals sites, start and improve school breakfast programs, and teach families how to shop for and prepare healthy meals on a budget. It also helps provide grants to most innovative hunger-fighting organizations across the country so that they can purchase food and supplies. We’re seeing incredible results from these investments. By making a tax-deductible contribution, you can help expand the reach of No Kid Hungry.
If you're interested in leading a cooking demonstration with adults, kids, teens, or families in your community, download Cooking Matters in Your Community. This free resource provides simple, clear instructions for planning and leading a cooking demo, and includes useful tools like checklists, sample outlines, and culinary tips. Check out the new toolkit for yourself and consider doing a demo for your family, friends, or office!
Since 1988, thousands have helped make Share Our Strength’s culinary events the best in the nation. There are many ways to get involved. Whether you're helping recruit chefs, find sponsors, plan logistics or work the night of an event, volunteering plays a critical role in helping us do more to help kids struggling with hunger in your community and across the country.
No Cooking Matters courses near you? No problem! You can help organize or lead food-based demonstrations or other activities with kids, adults, and families in your community using our free downloadable toolkits.
Shopping Matters is a guided grocery store tour that helps parents and caregivers on a limited budget make healthy choices at the supermarket. You can help by asking organizations in your community to offer tours. Or, if you're a chef, nutrition educator or community health professional, you can lead one yourself.
Share your culinary and nutrition expertise to help families learn that healthy cooking can be delicious, enjoyable and affordable. In communities with a Cooking Matters program, you can volunteer to help families make the most of their food resources in a six-week course.
Treat yourself and your favorite foodie to the hottest food, spirits and wine event of 2013 - tickets to select Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation are on sale today!
Perhaps you’ve decided to run a 5K, you have a birthday coming up, you’re getting married, or you’re about to graduate. Or maybe you just have a great idea for a fundraiser. You can use that special occasion or inspiration as a way to raise awareness and funds to help feed hungry kids for the No Kid Hungry campaign.
A Bake Sale for No Kid Hungry is a great way to raise awareness and make an impact in your community. You can host a bake sale based on your schedule and in your community. It’s an easy and fun way to raise funds and awareness. We have all the tools to help you make your event a success!
Watch this video about how a middle school principal helps ensure 330 children are eating breakfast at school every day, when at the same time last year, the school was barely feeding the same number in a month.
Like Principal Prim, you too can make a big difference for kids who are at risk of hunger.
Bryan Voltaggio, chef and co-owner of VOLT Restaurant, is a native Marylander who gained popularity after competing on season six of Bravo’s Top Chef. Bryan has been an ardent supporter of the No Kid Hungry campaign, testifying before the Maryland House of Delegates about the importance of school breakfast and participating in and hosting numerous culinary events, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to help feed hungry kids for the No Kid Hungry campaign.
Bryan Voltaggio has taken the pledge - have you?
Leanne and Margaret found that everyone enjoys eating cupcakes – no matter what else they might disagree on. Hosting a Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale® one summer, the sisters sold over 350 cupcakes and raised over $1,700 for No Kid Hungry.
You can create your own fundraiser today with our online tools.