Help Us Fight Hunger Across America

Dear Friends,

Move For Hunger’s 10th Anniversary was everything we hoped it could be. In 2019, we made sure to recognize the companies, volunteers, and donors who have transformed our scrappy little start-up into a nationally-recognized non-profit organization. We continued to build on that foundation by expanding our multi-family program, developing new employee engagement experiences, and by welcoming new partners, such as Assurant, Kastle, and CarsArrive to our movement. And, most importantly, we established new records by collecting more than 3.6 million lbs. of food and providing 3 million meals to people who are facing hunger.

Over the next 3 years, Move For Hunger will continue to create sustainable processes that we can ingrain within the moving, multi-family, and relocation industries. We need to explore new opportunities, like freight shipping, to figure out the best way to utilize the transportation resources that are already on the road. And, ideally, we will find a way to incorporate refrigerated trucks into our fleet, so that we can help food banks receive more of the fresh produce, meat, and dairy products that they so desperately need. When I founded Move For Hunger back in 2009, I didn’t know much about the problems that I was trying to address. I saw resources that were being underutilized and an industry that had the capacity to help. For a long time, our solution to hunger and food waste was simple: rescue the billions of pounds of food we are wasting every year and get it to the people who need it most. Move For Hunger provided the platform and process for companies to take action in their local communities. And it worked! As the years went on, though, I learned even more about the issues we were trying to tackle. The sad truth of it is, hunger and food waste are complicated problems that require complicated solutions. The work Move For Hunger is doing is incredibly important, and I’m proud of the tremendous growth we’ve seen over the past year. But it’s still not enough. Hunger is merely a symptom of poverty, and we, as non-profits, for-profits, and individual citizens, need to start taking steps to address the root causes. Rescuing food is certainly better than throwing it away, but we must rethink the supply chain if we hope to eliminate food waste entirely. Moving forward, we have to confront these issues head on. Which is why, in the years ahead, we will be providing our network with better educational resources, adding new content to our website, and integrating opportunities for further discussion into our corporate and community activations.

Move For Hunger has always been a creative, dynamic organization and we will continue to adapt when we see an opportunity to make a greater impact. This is a natural progression, not a departure from what has made us successful. Although hunger may be on the decline, hard times will eventually come again. Our food banking partners are expanding their programming to meet new challenges and serve more people. We commit to do the same.

Thank you.

Links:

• 2019 Move For Hunger Year In Review