World Food Day is a worldwide event designed to increase awareness, understanding and informed, year-around action to alleviate hunger. It is observed each October 16th in recognition of the founding of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945. The first World Food Day was in 1981. In the United States the endeavor is sponsored by 450 national, private voluntary organizations. 

Church World Service Crop Walks raise money for local hunger-fighting agencies as well as the international relief and development efforts of Church World Service.

Trees For Life helps plant fruit trees in developing countries. These trees provide a low-cost, self-renewing source of food for many people and protect the environment.

National Youth Service Day (NYSD) is the largest service event in the world, engaging millions of young Americans and focusing national attention on the amazing leadership of young people. National Youth Service Day is also an opportunity to recruit the next generation of volunteers while promoting the benefits of youth service to the American public. Next year's event will be held April 11 - 13, 2003.

 Freedom From Hunger invests in the determination of a mother to help her children. Serving women who live in poor, rural areas, they provide practical information on how to better nourish children, keep families healthy, and grow a microenterprise into a flourishing business.

SERVEnet is the premier website on service and volunteering. Through SERVEnet, users can be matched with organizations needing help.

Food First  The Institute for Food and Development Policy (better known as Food First) is a member-supported, nonprofit 'peoples' think tank and education-for-action center.

The Hunger Site  Click a button to make a free donation of food to hungry people around the world.  Advertising sponsors pay for your donation, which you can make once per day.

Hunger Web  This Brown University site helps prevent and eradicate hunger by facilitating the free exchange of ideas and information regarding the causes of, and solutions to, hunger.

Bread for the World   A Christian voice for ending hunger whose 44,000 members contact their senators and representatives about legislation that affects hungry people in the United States and worldwide.

Oxfam International  An international group of 11 autonomous non-government organizations that share the commitment to working for an end to the waste and injustice of poverty.

American Red Cross  An online resource for finding out about the American Red Cross, locally, nationally, and worldwide.

America's Second Harvest   Their mission is to feed hungry people in America by soliciting and distributing food and grocery products through a nationwide network of certified affiliate food banks and to educate the public about the nature of and solutions to the problem of domestic hunger.

MSU Master Gardener Program  Applicants attend classes in their county, learning basic horticultural principles and environmentally sound gardening practices.  They then provide a minimum of 40 hours of volunteer service to their community.

Food Research and Action Center Working to improve public policies to eradicate hunger and under nutrition in the United States by serving as the hub of an anti-hunger network of thousands of individuals and agencies across the country.

Hunger Action Coalition of Michigan  Mobilizes all segments of society to actively shape a just society relative to food and nutrition.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations  Works to alleviate poverty and hunger by promoting agricultural development, improved nutrition and the pursuit of food security - the access of all people at all times to the food they need for an active and healthy life.

World Hunger Year (WHY)  supports and promotes innovative, long term solutions to hunger through self-reliance, economic justice, community building and food security.

RESULTS  is a non-profit, grassroots citizen's lobby that identifies sustainable solutions to the problems of hunger and poverty, in our world and in the U.S., and works to generate the resources necessary to make those solutions succeed.

Waste Not  collects unsaleable, commercially prepared food from hotels, resorts, restaurants, caters and food brokers and provides hungry people a wholesome, nutritious meal.

United Against Hunger is an invitation to humanitarian organizations, faith-based groups, corporations, service clubs, schools, individuals and any group with an interest in addressing hunger - to come together under a common banner.

The Rice Raiser is a youth mobilized community event designed to feed the hungry both in our own community and in developing countries at the same time.

The Society of St. Andrew: Gleaning America's Fields; Feeding America's Hungry.  We feed the hungry all year long by saving fresh produce that would otherwise go to waste and giving it to the needy through our three operating programs, the Potato Project, the Gleaning Network, and Harvest of Hope.

HungryKids.org is a not for profit grassroots organization dedicated to raising awareness for world hunger and poverty relief.

ebCANADA  Empty Bowls Canada web site