Alliance To End Hunger

Programs: Public education: the alliance added 15 new members in 2017. The alliance continued implementation on its five-year strategic plan which focused on deeper member engagement, encouraging more member-led initiatives, and deliberate education and advocacy efforts. The alliance hosted and/or participated in 40 events in 2017 with a cumulative reach of over 4,200 individuals to discuss critical issues and solutions in our work to end hunger. The alliance continued and strengthened its partnership with the food and agriculture organization of the united nations - jointly organizing a number of roundtables, as well as a congressional briefing and two side events at the world food prize in des moines, ia. The alliance also increased member engagement through the advocacy committee, with more intentional focus on global and domestic food security issues. Education focused on the global food security act, which was passed and became law, and child nutrition reauthorization. The alliance also built out its youth engagement initiative - launching a youth opportunity resource inventory on the website, which is an online resource through the alliance website which provides youth interested in breaking into the world of food security a tool to find opportunities to get involved. Finally, the alliance has also been developing a racial equity component to its work, and secured a emerson hunger fellow from the congressional hunger center to help lead on this work

hunger-free communities: in 2017, the alliance launched an americorps vista program to enhance the hunger free community network. The program places vistas at eight hunger free community sites across the country in order to help these community coalitions improve their capacities to improve how they approach local food security issues. The initiative was enhanced through the addition of an advisory committee made up of low-income individuals. The hunger free communities network also held a summit in tampa, fl with the tampa bay network to end hunger, which brought together anti-hunger community leaders from around the country to showcase and discuss best practices for addressing hunger in different local contexts.

other program accomplishments: in 2017 successfully closed out the national alliance partnership program grant through usaid. This program assisted civil society coalitions in six feed the future countries through building their capacities to function as network organizations and represent civil society in policy processes related to food security, nutrition, and agriculture. The alliance partnered with existing or nascent alliances in six developing countries (tanzania, uganda, ghana, zambia, malawi and guatemala) to conduct capacity assessments, develop strategic plans, and provide technical assistance to help them build their organizational and financial capacity; diversify their coalitions, with emphasis on engaging farmers and other food producers; and increase their capacity for advocacy and policy analysis in the areas of agriculture, food security and nutrition. Additionally, the alliance adopted a leadership role in the sdg2 advocacy hub - a global platform of food security-focused organizations that collects, disseminates, and in some cases helps coordinate global food security advocacy efforts. Finally, the alliance spearheaded the development of a zero hunger corporate roundtable, with the goal of assisting in the coordination of corporate efforts in the united states to address food security issues.