education & advocacy

www.Frac.org
The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is the leading national nonprofit organization working to improve public policies and public-private partnerships to eradicate hunger and under nutrition in the United States. FRAC works with hundreds of national, state and local nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and corporations to address hunger and its root cause, poverty.

www.secondharvest.org
America's Second Harvest—The Nation's Food Bank Network is the nation's largest charitable hunger-relief organization:

  • A Network of more than 200 Member food banks and food-rescue organizations
  • Serving all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

http://www.state.nj.us/

http://www.state.nj.us/agriculture/divisions/fn
The Division of Food and Nutrition administers the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, Special Milk Program, Afterschool Snack Program, Summer Food Service Program, Child and Adult Day Care Food Program, Family Day Care Program, Commodity Food Distribution Program and The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

http://www.acnj.org
The Association for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ) is the state's foremost child research and advocacy organization. For almost 30 years ACNJ has advanced policies that help children and families.

http://www.centeronhunger.org
The Center on Hunger and Poverty promotes policies that improve the lives of low-income children and families.

http://www.knowhunger.org
Know Hunger is a ready-to-use, 6-unit social studies curriculum geared toward high school youth (a middle school curriculum will be available soon), and designed to enable educators to easily integrate social content materials into their classes. The complete curriculum can be used online or downloaded free of charge!

http://www.sefan.org
SEFAN, the Statewide Emergency Food and Anti-Hunger Network provides support, education and services for the more than 1,000 food providers in New Jersey. Our quarterly newsletter informs readers about events and legislation that affect hungry and food-insecure in the state. PANTRY LINK, our new project, is a tool for those who want to donate food, funds or time. Find out more about the pantries near you!

www.ActionAgainstHunger.com
Action Against Hunger is a community service program administered on behalf of North Jersey by The Record, Herald News, (201) and Community Newspapers and Magazines of North Jersey Media Group. The program runs the largest one-day food drive in the metropolitan area and has helped feed those in need in North Jersey since 1991.

find help

www.endhungernj.org
A project of the New Jersey Hunger Prevention advisory Committee, this website provides information about getting help, educating about hunger, and supporting hunger prevention programs.

www.njhelps.org
NJHelps is a free and easy way for you to prescreen for eight programs that are available to help you and your family. NJHelps is private, we do not ask who you are and we do not share your information with anyone. NJHelps will tell you where to go for help and what to bring with you, after you have answered all the questions.

http://foodstamp.nal.usda.gov  
The Food Stamp Nutrition Connection (FSNC) is a resource system for Food Stamp Program nutrition education providers. FSNC is the result of a collaboration between the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), National Agricultural Library's Food and Nutrition Information Center, the University of Maryland, and Howard University.

donors

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