Share Our Strength

Share Our Strength partners with the public and private sectors to promote and facilitate access to nutritious food in schools, community centers, and at home. To that end, Share Our Strength in partnership with other stakeholders, recently developed a nationwide 10-point plan to end childhood hunger, and is implementing it first in Washington, DC to serve as a national model. In its first year, the D.C. plan has made solid progress in providing nutritious food to the 35,000 children at risk of hunger in the District of Columbia. Share Our Strength is in the process of first replicating this national strategy in Florida and Washington State, where it will focus on three strategies: creating state-specific plans and building state and local leadership in the public and private sectors to take ownership of each plan; convening state and local officials, businesses, school administration, and nonprofits on a county-by-county, school-district level to take an active role in their state's plan; and building capacity of a key statewide organization to monitor and implement the state's plan long-term.