Mississippi: Delta Fresh Foods Initiative Photo Credit: Matthew Wood
ANNUAL REPORT 2011
“ Working with WhyHunger has given me the opportunity to get involved with both my local community and the world in a tangible way. I think issues of hunger and poverty are important to my friends, fans and peers, but it’s often overwhelming to know how to help. WhyHunger makes it easy for us to connect and make a real difference.” — Bleu Artist Against Hunger & Poverty
Oregon: Adelante Mujeres Photo Credit: David Hanson
MESSAGE
FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dear Friends, As we look back on 2011, we are reminded about the challenges faced by so many families in the US and abroad during this recession. We listened to the individual stories of thousands of National Hunger Hotline (1-866-3-HUNGRY) callers, struggling after losing their jobs, their homes and their pensions, who we were able to connect to emergency food and government nutrition programs. And we celebrate the successes of communities who are reshaping their local food system and improving access to healthy food for all. From the very beginning, WhyHunger has always believed that partnerships are at the root of solutions that will end hunger and poverty in our world. Once again, we are reminded that it is through partnership with folks like you that we are able to make a difference and continue to build the movement to end hunger and poverty.
“WhyHunger has always believed that partnerships are at the root of solutions that will end hunger and poverty in our world.” — Bill Ayres
WhyHunger is a grassroots support organization that works with more than 8,500 community based organizations all across the country and dozens more around the world. These grassroots organizations are developing some of the most innovative approaches to addressing food insecurity in their own communities. They are working to build local economies, connect people to healthy and affordable food, develop new leaders, cultivate self-reliance and transform the very systems that keep so many of their neighbors disenfranchised. We have traveled the country for dozens of years and have built relationships with thousands of these community leaders, supporting them in building organizations, developing impactful programs and policies and joining the movement to end hunger and poverty. This past year alone we’ve partnered with close to a hundred community-based organizations, helping them to tell their stories, learn from one another, develop networks, change policies, promote opportunities for people to grow and market their own food and form new local coalitions that work together to improve the quantity and quality of food throughout their community. We work with them to get stronger, reach more people and acquire more resources. In 2011, we helped form the Delta Fresh Foods Initiative which has increased the number of church gardens to some two hundred in just a few years, started a farm to school program and supported local farmers as they transition to sustainable agriculture in the Mississippi Delta. We have worked with the Tohono O’odham Community Action organization (TOCA) in Sells, Arizona where the epidemic of diabetes
per capita is the worst in the world. Farmers there are successfully growing native crops for the first time in fifty years in desert conditions and changing the diets of the tribe, especially the children. We are also working in a migrant community in California to empower the school food directors to introduce fresh fruits and vegetables which are bountiful in the region into the schools. In our fourth year of the “Imagine There’s No Hunger” global campaign, WhyHunger, Hard Rock International, Yoko Ono Lennon and thousands of supporters have helped communities grow enough food to provide 5.5 million meals for children in need from 15 countries around the world. And to ensure a future without hunger, we support sustainable agriculture training programs for children and their families at 26 grassroots organizations across the globe. We are promoting food sovereignty, the right for all people to determine the kind of food they grow and eat, and will be a host this October in New York for the fourth annual Food Sovereignty Prize awarded to grassroots organizations from around the world that are practicing and promoting food sovereignty in their communities and regions. Bruce Springsteen is back on the road and supporting grassroots organizations in every city in the country as part of our Artists Against Hunger and Poverty program. Over the years Bruce has raised more than ten million dollars for our grassroots partner organizations. He started off the tour with a dynamic concert at the Apollo Theater which was a benefit for WhyHunger through a donation from our partners at Sirius XM. This has been a good year for WhyHunger. We have helped more hungry people than ever to access good food in their communities and we continue to partner with some of the hardest working most innovative people and organizations in America and around the world. We thank our major funding partners and all of you who have supported our work, and we look forward to an even brighter future with justice for all.
Bill Ayres
Co-Founder and Executive Director
“
It’s a beehive of activity at Project Bona Fide – thanks very much to the support you all have contributed in the last few years. Our sister community center, which we got rooted with Imagine campaign funds, is flourishing and completely run by the community – even with its own web site proyectomanoamiga.org. Thank you WhyHunger for the amazing work, and the dedication you live your lives with and fortunately share with our communities. It is making a big difference.” — Michael Judd
Nicaragua: Project Bona Fide
Project Bona Fide, Nicaragua (Imagine campaign local partner)
OUR MISSION WhyHunger is a leader in building the movement to end hunger and poverty by connecting people to nutritious, affordable food and by supporting grassroots solutions that inspire self-reliance and community empowerment.
Record-Breaking Year: WhyHunger’s biggest public outreach and fundraising campaign, Hungerthon, engages listeners through more than a dozen radio stations including all the CBS Radio stations in NYC and Sirius XM Satellite Radio. With 26 years of Hungerthon history, we broke our own record in 2011 raising more than $800,000 and reaching millions of people on the radio and through print and social media.
ABOUT WhyHunger Founded in 1975 by the late musician Harry Chapin and current Executive Director Bill Ayres, WhyHunger is a grassroots support organization that works with more than 8,000 community-based groups across the country and around the world to fight hunger and poverty. What began as a simple commitment between two friends to make a difference has grown into an award-winning global non-profit, leading the movement to end hunger and poverty and creating a just and sustainable food system. From humble beginnings, WhyHunger remains committed to the belief that everyone deserves access to nutritious, affordable food and that together we can truly make a difference. WhyHunger brings its unique assets and history to building a broad-based social movement to end hunger. Our set of core values rests on the understanding that solutions and innovation are often found in the grassroots. WhyHunger’s programs work to support these community-based organizations as they grow and develop, and bring new ideas and practices to creating a just food system that provides universal access to nutritious and affordable food. WhyHunger provides capacity building services, technical support and access to information and financial resources to community organizations implementing new ideas and developing groundbreaking projects to transform their communities. We build networks of grassroots organizations that share a vision of healthy, sustainable and self-reliant communities leading to greater mobilization and stronger advocacy to end poverty and hunger.
The Global Movements program works through international and U.S. civil society networks to link WhyHunger’s domestic work on hunger and poverty to global movements for food sovereignty and the basic rights to food, land, water and sustainable livelihoods for all people.
CORE PROGRAMS
The National Hunger Clearinghouse collects, develops and distributes information and resources to help build the capacity of emergency food providers to address the immediate needs of struggling families and individuals while promoting self-reliance and access to healthy food. The Clearinghouse includes the National Hunger Hotline, (1-866-3 HUNGRY or 1-866-348-6479), which refers people in need anywhere in the U.S. to food pantries, soup kitchens, government programs and model grassroots organizations.
California: Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems farm at UCSC
The Grassroots Action Network
Artists Against Hunger & Poverty
provides capacity building services, mentoring, training opportunities and technical assistance to organizations that are actively forging new ideas to transform communities and end hunger and poverty. Together, with a network of more than 8,000 grassroots organizations, we share their innovations, mobilize resources and connect them to each other in order to support their work to build healthier, sustainable communities that develop local food systems and strengthen local economies.
enlists performing artists to raise funds and awareness for the most innovative and effective community-based organizations fighting hunger and poverty on the frontlines in cities, towns and villages all across the world. WhyHunger offers artists, the artist community and the music industry an opportunity to take a stand by using their voices and resources effectively – doing what they already do so well. Through music we can all make a difference in the world.
2011 ACCOMPLISHMENTS Global Movements
Grassroots Action Network
Imagine There’s No Hunger Campaign - Our on-going partnership with
Building Community Power to Eliminate Food Deserts - We worked in the Mississippi
Hard Rock International and Yoko Ono Lennon raised $405,000 through the sale of Imagine wristbands in Hard Rock Cafes around the world. All of the money was awarded to grassroots organizations in nine countries that fed a total of 200,000 children, provided them with an education and taught them to sustainably grow food to increase their families’ ability to provide for themselves into the future.
US Food Sovereignty Alliance - In response to the global food crisis, WhyHunger brought together 75 organizations from across the country to form an alliance, promoting the right of people to have control over the food they eat, harvest, sell and produce. Together, in 2011, we worked to combat illegal land grabs and promote sustainable agriculture. The alliance links WhyHunger’s domestic work with the international movement for food sovereignty.
United Nations - WhyHunger works with the United Nations to effect change at the global policy level in support of our work to end hunger and poverty. In 2011, WhyHunger was selected to serve as the North American civil society representative to the UN Committee on World Food Security, an international body charged with addressing the current global food crisis and preventing future ones. In this role, we have been working to address the food price swings and land access for small-scale farmers.
National Hunger Clearinghouse National Hunger Hotline - WhyHunger’s committed staff and volunteers at 1-866-3-HUNGRY
helped more than 18,900 hungry Americans to find emergency food in their neighborhood and get connected to federal nutrition programs, especially SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) and WIC (Women, Infants and Children Program). To combat childhood hunger, we registered 4,600 communitybased locations for the USDA Summer Food Service Program and referred more than 2,400 low-income families to a site in their community to receive free, nutritious meals. During the summer months, when childhood hunger in the U.S. peaks, WhyHunger helps the USDA feed 2.2 million children.
National Hunger Clearinghouse - Sharing information and resources with thousands of
emergency food providers, the Clearinghouse helps build the capacity of grassroots organizations to improve the quality of the food and services they provide to clients, while connecting them to news and resources from the USDA Food and Nutrition Service. Last year, we doubled the number of subscribers to our Clearinghouse Connection online newsletter that provides valuable USDA updates and other useful information.
Delta, southeastern Arizona and the central coast of California to organize multi-sector coalitions to increase access to healthy and nutritious food in areas known as “food deserts.” With funding from the WK Kellogg Foundation and Kresge Foundations, we brought together community stakeholders to build congregational and community gardens; develop demonstration farms and permaculture schools; grow farm to school programs and educate consumers, growers and market managers to develop and promote the local food economy.
Community Learning Project - Rooted in our core value that many of the best ideas and
programs come from the grassroots, WhyHunger launched a co-mentoring experience bringing together community-based groups from different parts of the country to share and replicate their best, most innovative model programs and techniques. In 2011, we worked with fifteen organizations in six teams, spanning eleven states.
Food Security Learning Center - WhyHunger offers comprehensive research materials,
profiles and resources related to food security, hunger and poverty. In 2011, by launching a new digital platform, we expanded the user experience with customized information portfolios and an in-depth exploration of more than twenty topics including the newly launched Youth in the Food System; Food, Faith and Spirituality; the Food and Farm Bill; and an update to Race and the Food System.
Harry Chapin Self-Reliance Awards - Created in 1985 and inspired by Sandy Chapin, the
annual awards support the most innovative and successful community based food, hunger and poverty programs in the U.S. Over the years, we have awarded over $700,000 to 150 grassroots organizations. In 2011, ten winners each received $7,000 to support unique programs ranging from sustainable agriculturebased youth programs and farmer training programs to food pantries serving locally-produced healthy whole foods for low-income and immigrant communities.
Artists Against Hunger & Poverty Artists Against Hunger & Poverty - WhyHunger partners with artists and their fans to raise awareness and funds to support effective, community -based organizations working to combat hunger and poverty worldwide. In 2011, the program raised more than $100,000 through auctions, artist ticket sales, merchandise sales and per ticket concert donations. Over the years, founding member Bruce Springsteen, Michael McDonald, Jackson Browne, Chicago, Earth, Wind and Fire, Natalie Merchant, Papa Roach, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels and others have raised $12 million to help more than 500 organizations. In 2011, artists Bleu, MojoB, Carolyn Wonderland, Burlap to Cashmere and more joined our roster.
WHAT-
WhyHunger’s policy and track record of partnering with major funders to support grassroots hunger and poverty programs throughout the U.S. and in 25 countries in Asia, Africa and South America.
WHY-
Much of the most cost effective, innovative and successful work to combat hunger comes from grassroots organizations that are often under resourced, under staffed and over worked.
FROM THE GRASSROOTS UP Mississippi: Delta Fresh Foods Initiative Photo Credit: Joshua Kristal
HOW-
We tune into the assets and challenges of the partner community, especially dedicated individuals and grassroots organizations already working in the community. We do not bring solutions from the top down or from the outside, but rather we work with the community and bring needed resources to complement their work and to discover together additional resources and solutions.
New York City: Yorkville Common Pantry Photo Credit: Diane Bondareff
MILESTONES The Community Learning Project for Food Justice,
a national peer-to-peer capacity building and mentorship program to support community-based learning in the food justice movement, was launched in 2011. In its inaugural year, fifteen organizations worked in teams to share complementary resources, develop skills and technical expertise and implement specific food and hunger related community programs. Participants brought a tremendous amount of knowledge and expertise to the program, ranging from developing a worker owned farm cooperative and building a successful distribution system for small minority farmers, to storytelling through multimedia and community organizing. Each organization received a small stipend to support their work and have benefited from professional development trainings, technical assistance, regional site visits and national gatherings.
The US Food Sovereignty Alliance
was officially launched at its first annual assembly on November 9th in Oakland, CA. The Assembly was attended by a diverse group of 75 people from seven regions of the US , as well as Canada, Brazil, and Mexico, representing five different sectors of the food system - fishermen; farmers; urban gardeners and food justice activists; food and farm workers; and allies. Through an intense, day-long group process, the group arrived at common priority areas for 2012 as well as a commitment to openly addressing power and race dynamics in order to forge a stronger, more unified movement aimed at ending poverty through rebuilding local food economies.
The Building Community Power to Eliminate Food Deserts
project welcomed the Central Coast School Food Alliance to its network. The Alliance is working with food service directors and others that are working to improve school food especially for the institutions serving migrant workers’ children. Meanwhile, the Delta Fresh Foods Initiative and Somos la Semilla continue to build supply, create markets and increase demand for healthy and nutritious food in the Mississippi Delta and southeastern Arizona.
Imagine a World Without Hunger: The “Imagine There’s No Hunger” campaign is changing the face of childhood hunger. In just four years, WhyHunger, Hard Rock International, Yoko Ono Lennon and supporters like you have been able to provide 5,556,376 meals for children in need from 15 countries around the world! And to ensure a future without hunger, “Imagine There’s No Hunger” supports sustainable agriculture programs and training for children and their families at 26 organizations globally. Thank you for helping us to take one step closer to a world without hunger.
HAITI
MPP Haiti
USA D elta Fresh Food Initiative, MS
∆H elped communities grow enough food to provide 5.5 million meals for children in need ∆ P artnership between WhyHunger, Hard Rock International and Yoko Ono ∆A ccess to nutritious food and support for long-term, sustainable agriculture training and programs for children, their families and their communities
USA Delta Fresh Food Initiative, MS: A diverse coalition of community stakeholders committed to establishing sustainable, equitable community food systems in the Mississippi Delta through sharing resources, providing training and technical assistance for sustainable growers, consumers and advocates; and engaging the next generation in building community food systems. ∆ E xpand its Farm to School Program throughout the Mississippi Delta to provide fresh, healthy food to over 1,000 students, K-12, each year in one of the most disadvantaged regions in the country.
HAITI MPP Haiti: Haiti’s largest and most successful grassroots organization addressing the problems of food production, land protection, and viable peasant cooperatives, MPP Haiti is helping thousands of children in need through their school feeding and agriculture programs. ∆ full, nutritious meals for thousands of students ∆ b uild cisterns to provide these students with fresh water for the first time and vegetable gardens.
15 COUNTRIES ASIA: India Thailand China Sri Lanka Indonesia AFRICA: Cameroon Kenya Uganda South Africa Lesotho
INDIA
City of Joy
NORTH AMERICA: Haiti United States Dominican Republic
KENYA
Pathfinder Academy
SOUTH AMERICA: Nicaragua Venezuela
INDIA City of Joy:
KENYA Pathfinder Academy: A primary school serving orphans and vulnerable children, Pathfinder trains its students to grow food via bio-intensive agriculture methods and provides outreach to neighboring communities. ∆ 63,680 meals each month to boarding students, day scholars and staff members ∆ f resh food for orphans and other vulnerable children in the community, assisting approximately 2,700 families a year.
THAILAND Pattanarak Foundation: A training center that educates refugee youth and children in sustainable agriculture, Pattanarak provides training in food processing and food distribution to vulnerable children and those affected by HIV/AIDS. ∆ s upport agricultural programs that provide nutritious food for school meals, daycare programs – grow food to feed an estimated 1,000 children per year.
A network of clinics, schools, rehabilitation centers, and hospital boats, City of Joy’s Udayan school helps children from the leper colonies and slums of India receive treatment, education, and nutritious food. ∆ a dded “Kitchen Garden” to its primary school. ∆ h elps feed 304 families from leper colonies in the slums in and around Kolkata, most with young children ∆ f ully supports 300 students with 3 meals per day every day of the year.
STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES
Year ended March 31, Unrestricted
(a/k/a WhyHunger) In fiscal year 2012, WhyHunger had a total income of $4.36 million with a remarkably high percentage (90.3%) being used for programmatic activities that directly fulfill our mission. Our achievement of the coveted Charity Navigator four-star rating for sound fiscal management for the second consecutive year reaffirms our commitment to good governance and other best practices that ensure WhyHunger is consistently executing its mission in a fiscally responsible way.
Expenditures
90.3%
9 0.3% goes directly to program work.
9.7%
9 .7% of our income goes to overhead and fundraising.
2012
2011
$ 300,138
$ 218,539
Revenue: Individual contributions
$
300,138 1,223,610
$ 425,000
1,648,610
971,029
896,807
-
896,807
644,559
Special events, net of expenses of $102,160 and $126,987 for 2012 and 2011, respectively
96,595
-
96,595
124,642
National Hunger Clearinghouse Contract reimbursements
249,996
-
249,996
229,170
United States Department of Agriculture grant
500,000
500,000
250,000
Royalty income
639,673
-
639,673
549,252
496
-
496
53,774
3,845
8,655
Foundation grants and corporate donations Artists Against Hunger & Poverty/Hungerthon
World Hunger Year, Inc.
Temporarily Restricted
Net realized and unrealized gains on investments Interest and other income, net of Investment fees of $3,049 and $2,851 for 2012 and 2011, Respectively
3,845 30,000
-
30,000
-
580,357
(580,357)
-
-
$ 4,521,517
(155,357)
$4,366,160
$3,049,620
Grassroots Action Network
735,527
-
735,527
565,366
Artists against Hunger and Poverty/ Hungerthon
909,967
-
909,967
679,729
Harry Chapin Self Reliance Awards
101,536
-
101,536
118,560
-
-
-
60,091
National Hunger Clearinghouse
372,928
-
372,928
538,748
Global Movements
Fiscal sponsorship fees Net assets released from Restrictions Total Revenue Expenses: Program Services:
Harry Chapin Media Awards
434,871
-
434,871
332,223
General Media for Program Services
73,181
-
73,181
54,042
Tohono O’Odham Community Action
143,733
-
143,733
-
$ 2,771,743
-
$2,771,743
$2,348,759
Fundraising
192,001
-
192,001
183,538
Management and General
107,139
-
107,139
110,631
Total Supporting Services
299,140
-
299,140
294,169
Total Expenses
$ 3,070,883
-
$3,070,883
$2,642,928
1,450,634
(155,357)
1,295,277
406,692
347,504
724,386
1,071,890
665,198
$1,798,138
$569,029
$2,367,167
$1,071,890
Total Program Services Supporting Services:
Change in Net Assets Net Assets, Beginning of Year Net Assets, End of Year
March 31,
2012
2011
$1,851,511
$ 255,291
289,674
287,297
Contracts receivable
62,499
125,000
Accounts receivable
246,738
742,061
Prepaid and other assets
105,669
46,468
Assets: Cash and cash equivalents Investments at fair value
267,363
200,217
$2,823,454
$1,656,334
Grants payable
370,00
245,000
Accounts payable and other liabilities
61,600
64,444
-
275,000
Fixed assets, net
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
Liabilities and Net Assets Liabilities:
Line of Credit Deferred revenue Total Liabilities
24,687
-
$ 456,287
$ 584,444
Commitments Net Assets: Unrestricted: 1,510,095
59,461
Board designated
175,000
175,000
Board designated endowment fund
113,043
113,043
Operating
Temporarily restricted Total Net Assets
569,029
724,386
2,367,167
1,071,890
$2,823,454
$1,656,334
“During my five years as a program ambassador I have traveled with WhyHunger, visited their grassroots partners and seen firsthand the needs of families worldwide, families that even in 2012 are going hungry. Through the IMAGINE campaign Hard Rock and WhyHunger have helped communities grow enough food to provide more than 5.5 million meals to children in 15 different countries and taught thousands of others techniques for sustained food production for a future free of hunger.” — Hamish Dodds
President and CEO, Hard Rock International, and Global Ambassador for WhyHunger
Four Star Rating: We received the highest rating of four stars for excellence in fiscal management, accountability and transparency from America’s leading independent charity evaluator, Charity Navigator. WhyHunger spends 90.3 percent of all funds directly on programs and only 9.7 percent on fundraising and administration. When people donate to WhyHunger, they can be sure we spend the money responsibly.
For a complete copy of our audited financial statement, visit whyhunger.org.
Board of Directors
s
Advisory Board of Directors
s
Edward Barron
David Miller
Robin Batteau
Laurence Levine
Attorney/ Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Stephen J. Beninati (Treasurer)
First Vice President, Financial Advisor, Morgan StanleySmithBarney
Jen Chapin (Secretary) Songwriter/Performer
Tom Chapin
Songwriter/Performer, Sundance Music
Director of Operations, Hard Rock Cafe, Metro New York Region
Loretta Muñoz
Senior Director of Governmental Affairs, Greenberg Traurig
Hon. Jerrold Nadler
Bich Ha Pham
Frank Brunckhorst
John Poelker
David Buskin
Patrick Sullivan
Hon. Walter Carrington
Hon. Shirley R. Watkins
Director of Policy, Advocacy & Research, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
Chairman, Boar’s Head Provisions Company
Janet Poppendieck
Lyricist, Performer, Playwright
Songwriter/Performer, Caravan Management, CBGB
Alan C. Handell
Ann Johns Ruckert
Senior Vice President, Content Critical, LLC
President, Ruckert Music, Inc.
Jake Holmes
Scott Ryan
Lyricist & Songwriter, 3 Tree Productions
Vice President, Bank of America
Nanette Johns
Charles J. Sanders, (Chair)
Doctor of Chiropractic
Ruth Katz
Consultant, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture
Michael Keats
Attorney, Special Counsel, Songwriters’ Guild of America
John Sanful
Executive Director, Ice Hockey In Harlem
Judy Tint
Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Goldman Sachs & Co.
Attorney in Private Practice
Paul C. Kurland
Farmer/Community Organizer/Activist/ President, La Familia Verde Garden
Partner, McLaughlin & Stern LLP
Brian McMorrow, (Vice-Chair)
Professional Engineer, Bohler Engineering, P.C.
Diane Blagman
Co-Director and Co-Founder KIDS Can Make A Difference
Assistant Vice President/ Membership Special Projects, ASCAP
Author & Professor, Sociology, Hunter College of the City University of New York (Retired)
Joe D’Urso
Lyricist, Performer
Karen Washington
Retired United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Senegal and Nigeria
Member, US House of Representatives (D NY) Owner, Apple Taxi and Limo President & CEO, RightsFlow, Inc. Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture (1993-1995); Author
Stephen Chapin Lyricist, Performer
Hon. Thomas Downey
Chairman, Downey McGrath Group, Inc.; former member US House of Representatives (D NY)
Peter Fornatale (1945-2012)
DJ, 90.7 WFUV-FM, Mixed Bag Radio; Author
Michael Francesa
Sports Broadcaster, Sports Radio 66 WFAN
Hon. Patrick Leahy
Member U.S. Senate (D VT)
Jane Finn Levine
Ed.D; Co-Director and Co-Founder KIDS Can Make A Difference
Executive Management Team Bill Ayres
Executive Director & Co-Founder
Alison Meares Cohen Director of Programs
Noreen Springstead
Director of Fundraising & Marketing
Marc Weiss
Director of Finance and Administration
SUPPORTERS
WhyHunger is eternally grateful for all of its friends who are equally committed to combating hunger and poverty in the United States and across the globe. A very big THANK YOU to all who made a donation to WhyHunger during FY 2012!
$100,000 Frank Brunckhorst Eugene & Nanette Johns Kresge Foundation WK Kellogg Foundation Sirius XM
$10,000 - $99,999 AAA ASCAP Gerald Beeson Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Downey McGrath Sharron Hicks Homeland Foundation Karma Foundation Mel Karmazin Foundation Presbyterian Hunger Program RSF Small Planet Fund Sullivan & Cromwell LLP USA For Africa Walden-Madden Foundation Wallace Genetic Foundation
$5,000 - $9,999 James & Diana Chapin CME Group CPG Food Project Frankfort Family Foundation Harry Chapin Foundation Kevin Hassan Jake Holmes & Anne Kane John R. & Inge P. Stafford Foundation Jon Landau Management Alan & Ellen Marzelli O’Melveny & Myers LLP Andrew & Annette Pizzo
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Hal Slifer Stroock & Stroock & Lavan Nick Zito
$1,000 - $4,999 Chris Auferio Steve & Sondra Beninati Edward & Bonnie Barron James & Patricia Basile Patricia Bennett John Beninati Carolyn Bradford Peter Breihof Christian Brindel Ernie Caplanson Gerald Carcione Community National Bank Coyne Public Relations Dolores Damm John Desideri Thomas DiTosto Jonathan Ellanthal Entertainment One Frank Finkel Mary Ann Fisher Goldman Sachs Harry Chapin Memorial Run Against Hunger Lori Anna & Jonas Herbsman Carlos Lima Michael Ludwig Carl & Anne Lukens Michael Maldicini Mass Mutual Andrew & Valerie Mcaleer Andrew McAteer James McCarthy Mark McGovern
Gene Muzyka Jennifer Newlin Newmark Knight Frank John O’Neil Neal Oskenberg Packer Collegiate Institute Joseph Pasternack John & Kathyrn Peiser Janet Poppendieck & Woody Goldberg Rabin Alexander LLC Russ Reardon Kristine Reck Christina Reik Albert Reinoso Jennifer Rosenblum Peter Rush Chris & Jeannie Russo Scott & Julia Ryan Sabety & Associates PLLC Charles Sanders Marvin Sanders & Myra Gorin Aldo Sazatlio Schindler, Cohen & Hochman LLP Solutions for Progress, Inc. Lawrence Taylor & Shannon Stringer The Glickenhaus Foundation The Mallah Organization TriEd/Northern Video Distribution Mitchell Umanoff James Walsh Anne Marie Woods Todd Wortman Jamie Zucker
$500 - $999 Chad & Robyn Barker Steven Blatter Maryhelen Bronson Susan Buchbinder Jason & Christina Chapin John Chaves Jr Carroll Collins Joseph Damask Natale Didonato Brian Doolan Margaret Dublin Mary Dul-Bitman
Ira Gardner Fariba Ghaffari Alesia Goginsky Tony Guida Elizabeth Healy Thomas Herzfeld Joseph Imholz Robert Jacobs Phillip & Pamela Kaufmann Robert Keyes Paul & Phyllis Kurland Larry Liebling Dan Martinsen Maxwell Strawbridge Charitable Trust Ross Mongiardo Marilyn Monter Loretta Munoz Please Occupational Therapy Services Raymond Poniatowski Post Heymann & Koffler LLP Charlotte Prince PS 165 Maura and Ed Rice Suzanne Rose Ryan Bros Music William Ryan & Jeanne Lightfoot David and Debbie Sable Victoria Salter Steven Scheinman Frank Schrier, Jr. Robert Schwartz & Ellen Brown John Scolamiero Steven Shaw Brian Smith & Kaliope Kostas Lloyd Solomon Steve Sutton Mikey Tint Bruce Turtletaub Thomas Uzzo Vincent Vivolo Leigh Walters John & Gail Waltz Marc & Robin Weiss Mark Whitmore Jared Widman Barbara Zuckerberg
“Thank you for everything – for your support of our dreams and our vision. We love WhyHunger!” — Claudio Rodríguez Tierra y Libertad Organization 2012 HCSRA winner
This annual report marks the first time that WhyHunger is publically recognizing its many supporters. Please forgive any inaccuracies, mistakes and/or omissions. Better yet – let us know! Email corrections to development@whyhunger.org.
Thailand: Pattanarak Foundation
It has been an incredible breath of fresh air to partner with an organization like WhyHunger that really believes in and supports our vision for our work.” — Amy Blumsack Neighbors Together 2012 HCSRA winner
We worked with WhyHunger on our 2009 tour and invited everyone to help us do our small part to help feed America. They are a great organization and we are proud to work with them.” — Chicago’s Lee Loughnane Artist Against Hunger & Poverty Member
I never would have guessed that there are people here in New York City and elsewhere in the US who are working on the very same issues that I am. It is important to feel this sense of connection. Thank you to WhyHunger for your support and solidarity.” — Saoudata Aboubacrine Pastoralist Leader from West Africa United Nations Civil Society Partner
Find us online:
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