Working to End Hunger in America
FRAC is the leading national nonprofit organization working to eradicate poverty-related hunger and undernutrition in the United States.
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Proceeds of FRAC’s annual dinner benefit our Campaign to End Childhood Hunger, which has achieved major gains in feeding low-income children in communities throughout the United States. The Campaign has had remarkable successes over the years, building the reach, quality, and effectiveness of programs across the board – School Breakfast, School Lunch, Summer Food, Afterschool Meals and Snacks, WIC, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, and SNAP/Food Stamps.
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FRAC has joined with a diverse group of national organizations to launch the Opportunity Starts at Home campaign to expand affordable housing options for America’s most vulnerable communities.
Over the past several years, more health care systems and individual providers have recognized their role in identifying and addressing the food security needs of their patients.
Once school lets out for the day, many children from struggling households face the possibility of going hungry until they are back at school for breakfast. Tight family budgets and parents’ work schedules can mean students will leave school without knowing supper is guaranteed at home.
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The School Breakfast Program ensures 12.1 million low-income students across the country start their school day ready to learn. School breakfast is particularly important for low-income students in rural communities who are more likely than their peers in metropolitan areas to live in food-insecure households, and, who often face additional barriers to accessing the program.
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the nation’s first line of defense against hunger, is critically important for rural America. In addition to improving the food security, health, and well-being of participating families, federal SNAP dollars stimulate rural economies through assistance that goes directly to struggling families to purchase food.
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No community in America is immune to hunger, including rural areas. Paradoxically, in rural areas that grow most of our nation’s food, households face considerably deeper struggles with hunger than those in metropolitan areas. Millions of working families, veterans, people with disabilities, seniors, and children in rural communities cannot always afford and access enough food for an active, healthy life.
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