Reports From The Field

World Hunger Year works with grassroots organizations around the country that are actively fighting hunger and poverty in their communities. Field visits allow us to gain firsthand information on the services, programs, and partners of these groups, and allow us to personally provide resources and develop deeper relationships with these communities. The field report on each site visit provides a snapshot of a thriving organization, combining practical information about history and structure with glimpses of the organization's atmosphere and community presence. Check out our field reports to meet some of the most innovative grassroots groups across the country!

Arizona

• Ajo Community Food Bank

  With its open skies, scenic desert landscape, and distance from major metropolitan areas, the remote Southern Arizona town of Ajo attracts transplants from many other parts of the US...

• Amado Community Food Bank

  It doesn’t take long after setting foot inside the Amado Community Food Bank to realize what a community fixture it is.....

• Tohono O’odham Community Action (CFP Grantee)

  Upon entering the small office of Tohono O’odham Community Action, one is greeted by a vibrant array of intricately woven baskets, wall hangings, and bundles of beans, cactus buds, and acorns...

New Mexico

• Pueblo of Pojaque

  In its second year, the farmers' market is already a success, with 20 local growers selling there twice a week...

• Río Grande Community Farm

  The farm hosts a festival harvest market in the fall, community gardens open to any member of the local community, and is part of the Albuquerque Food Security Network...

• Taos County Economic Development Corporation

  Outside, looking at the building's murals, the native plants, season-extending greenhouse and community garden, one is surrounded by the wide flat Taos plain and the Sangre de Cristo mountain range...

New York

• Just Food (CFP Grantee)

  Just Food was launched in New York City with two goals. One was just to help New Yorkers access good nutritious food. The other was to link that food to justice for all...

North Carolina

• SEEDS

  What is now a beautiful urban farm and garden was just an empty field covered in trash and plagued by drugs and prostitution when SEEDS first obtained it eleven years ago...

• Student Action with Farmworkers

  The walls of SAF's offices are plastered with images of Cesar Chavez and other pioneers of the farmworker justice movement...

Oregon

• Ecotrust (CFP Grantee)

  A strong commitment to social justice, economic opportunity, and environmental restoration is shown through Ecotrust’s five program areas...

• Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon (CFP Grantee)

  Locally grown food is a better choice for the environment and the local economy, in addition to just tasting a million times better...

• Growing Gardens

  Those who actively participate in creating, nurturing and sustaining the garden develop personal skills of self-reliance and responsibility that ripple into many other areas of life and learning...

• Oregon Food Bank

  Entering Oregon Food Bank's building, the first thing I encountered was a wonderful smell coming from the kitchen...