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The mission of the National Coalition for the Homeless is to prevent and end homelessness while ensuring the immediate needs of those experiencing homelessness are met and their civil rights protected.

Kids Cooking For Life (KCL) believes every child deserves to live a healthy and happy life. KCL teaches nutrition and inspires lifelong healthy cooking and eating habits through hands-on cooking classes to students from low income communities. We believe that instilling an understanding of proper diet and nutrition is a way to help combat the childhood obesity epidemic and the early onset of type 2 diabetes, among other diseases. KCL is fiscally sponsored by MarinLink.

Give Clean Water is a non-profit organization focused on bringing clean water systems to families, schools and nursing stations in rural Fiji.

Founded in 2012, our mission is to guide and empower young people with the knowledge, skills, and resources to make healthy lifestyle choices. We accomplish our goals through plant-based nutrition and culinary education in schools, summer camps and community events.

Mandarin Food Bank is a mission of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Jacksonville, FL. Our mission is to provide emergency food and clothing to those in need in the Mandarin Community. We are a ministry run entirely by volunteers. Anyone residing in the Mandarin Community, regardless of religious affiliation, is eligible to be served. At Thanksgiving and Christmas, we provide a box of food for a complete holiday meal, serving about 400 families at each event. Our migrant worker project includes duffle bags filled with personal items such as towels, wash cloths, hats, work gloves, shampoo deodorant, toothpaste, etc., all filled by food bank volunteers. Our volunteers also prepare the hot meal and transport it to different migrant camps. We do this twice a year. Other special projects at the food bank include a Life Skills program that provides formal instruction on tackling life experiences like: making and living on a budget, seeking a job, setting priorities, etc. Our birthday project that provides small birthday gifts for children of clients.

RFFK’s mission is to collaborate with school communities to elevate the quality and character of school food, develop and deliver programs that advance literacy in nutrition and health, and engage students, parents, and schools in building a culture of health that spreads to their homes and communities

Rock and Wrap it Up! (RWU) is an award-winning anti-poverty think tank. We research, discover and nurture potential sources willing to share renewable assets. Our donors include touring bands, educational institutions, the hospitality industry, professional sports teams, hospitals and TV/film shoots. We find and vet partner agencies that need and can share these resources with the poor. We encourage the use of the Whole Earth Calculator mobile application to access total pounds of food conversion to meals and greenhouse gas emission reduction. We also have programs to aid veterans as well as a program to increase access to feminine hygiene products for indigent women and teens.

The Nutrition Coalition is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization that aims to educate the public and policy makers about the need to strengthen national nutrition policy so that it is founded upon a comprehensive body of conclusive science, and where that science is absent, to encourage additional research.

CAIN is a neighborhood ministry that transforms lives and inspires hope by providing nutritious food, crisis assistance, resources, and compassion in a way that respects human dignity and builds a more vibrant community.

To recruit, educate and inspire a new generation of gardeners who want to gain control of their food supply, grow their own produce organically, and make urban gardening the norm not the exception.

MEND works to end hunger in Essex County by supporting our interfaith network of 17 food pantries. MEND provides funds, fresh and healthy food, social service referrals, volunteers, and a forum for all member pantries. MEND advocates for policies to eliminate food insecurity and to improve the quality of life for those in need in Essex County.

Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council work to bring the story of dairy to Mainers - the nutritional benefits, how to use it in the kitchen, the farmers and their practices, the land they conserve, and, of course, the cows we all love so much.