Through the almost 3-acre Red Hook Community Farm, Added Value provides healthy, affordable food to a neighborhood in need, as well as farm-based learning for 1,300 kids annually and job training and employment for local teens. Devastated after Hurricane Sandy, we are working to help the farm and community rebuild.
Through its Feed the Village Farm, Common Ground for Africa provides a total of 63,680 meals each month to boarding students, day scholars and staff members, as well as providing fresh food for orphans and other vulnerable children in the community, assisting approximately 2,700 families a year.
FoodWhat?! partners with low-income and at-risk youth to grow, cook, eat and distribute healthy, sustainably-raised food and address issues of food justice. Food is the vehicle for FoodWhat?!’s primary goal of growing strong, healthy and engaged teens.
Pattanark Foundation hosts an organic farm and runs agricultural programs that provide nutritious food for school meals, daycare programs and children affected by HIV/AIDS in Thailand, feeding an estimated 1,000 children per year.
As one of the region’s most comprehensive hunger action organizations, Long Island Cares provides emergency food where and when it is needed, sponsors community outreach programs that help families achieve self-sufficiency, and educates the general public about the causes and consequences of hunger on Long Island.
In Nicaragua Project Bona Fide runs a child nutrition program, Café Infantil, which provides 100 children ages 3-6 with fresh milk, eggs and multivitamins throughout the year.
Founded by Midwestern dairy farmers, Family Farm Defenders work for a food system that is good for both small family farmers and for consumers. They fight for rights and a living wage through campaigns, education, development of co-ops and other creative tactics.
Through its Nutrition and Healthy Meals program, Udayan helps feed 304 families from leper colonies in the slums in and around Kolkata, most with young children, and fully supports 300 students with 3 meals per day every day of the year much of it produced by the students themselves on an on-site farm.
CONAMUCA provides nutrition education and daily nutritious meals to feed at least 65,700 children, ages 7-14, much of the produce coming from its newly established farm and training center.
Tohono O’odham Community Action, through their Beginning Farmer Training Program and Young O’odham United Through Health programs, provides nutritious and indigenous food to approximately 800 children per year in their school lunch program while training new farmers in the production and marketing of traditional foods.
The Delta Fresh Food Initiative has organized a Farm to School Program throughout the Mississippi Delta. This program works to provide fresh, healthy food to over 1,000 students, K-12, each year in one of the most disadvantaged regions in the country.
In the Central Plateau, the Peasant Movement of Papaye (MPP) established farms and agricultural training programs at two rural K-8 schools where more than 1,000 children are provided with full, nutritious meals to grow and learn more effectively throughout the day. MPP has also built cisterns to provide these students with fresh water for the first time and vegetable gardens.
Through their Kidstrong program, Shanghai Roots and Shoots provides soy protein for 3,100 students at 5 migrant schools for the entire year, both at school and at home.
Thanks to all Hungerthon volunteers, partners, staff and sponsors for the hard work and support this year. Defying the odds, we had record-breaking success and raised $825K! Read more in our press release below. NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — WhyHunger’s annual Hungerthon campaign raised a record $825,000 for the fight against hunger and …Continue Reading
Join WhyHunger and our community partners are on the front lines of hunger and poverty in times of crisis and for the more than 50 million Americans and nearly one billion people who struggle everyday to put food on the table. Join us in 27 years of Hungerthon success in mobilizing communities in the movement to end hunger and poverty thanks to committed listeners, musicians, radio hosts and industry leaders.
Donate online, shop our signature Imagine There’s No Hunger line of gifts, bid on exclusive auction items from your favorite musicians, athletes and personalities and be part of the solution!
Hungerthon is an annual radio broadcasting event established in 1975 as a partnership between WhyHunger and Infinity Broadcasting to raise awareness and funds for the now 50 million Americans and over 1 billion worldwide that remain hungry. Over the years, Hungerthon has expanded its outreach through the help of Sirius XM Satellite Radio and several New York tri-state area radio stations including CBS Radio Group, Clear Channel Radio Group and Univision, with support from Citadel’s WABC Talk Radio and 95.5 WPLJ, WFUV and internet stations Rockland World Radio.com and Soundpress.com.
2011 marked a banner year for WhyHunger with the most successful Hungerthon in the annual event’s history, raising a record $764,000 for the fight against hunger and poverty!
Hungerthon brings a live radiothon broadcast across the country preceded by a month of events, interviews and concerts to raise awareness and funds to combat hunger and poverty across the country and around the world.
We don’t just ask why. We find practical answers to the problems of hunger and poverty by connecting people to food and by supporting grassroots organizations inventing new ways to build self-reliance and community power. Since its founding in 1975 by the late singer-songwriter Harry Chapin and radio talk-show host and current Executive Director Bill Ayres, WhyHunger has raised more than $30 million to help more than 10 million families, children, veterans and others around the world gain access to nutritious food and vital services. Learn more at
For two years in a row, WhyHunger received the highest rating of four stars for excellence in fiscal management, accountability and transparency from America’s leading independent charity evaluator, Charity Navigator. WhyHunger spends 90 percent of all funds directly on programs and only 10 percent on fundraising and administration. When people donate to WhyHunger, they can be sure we spend the money responsibly.
WhyHunger supports some of the most innovative community-based organizations across the country, that are working every day, 365 days a year, implementing immediate solutions in times of crisis AND long-term, sustained solutions to the on-going crisis of hunger and poverty. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, WhyHunger’s National Hunger Hotline 1-866-3-HUNGRY is fielding calls from hundreds of families affected by the storm, connecting them with emergency food assistance, government programs, and support in their communities to ensure they get the resources they need for today and the support to get back on their feet for tomorrow. Many of WhyHunger’s long time partners in the Tri-State area are on the front lines, providing food, water and critical services to their neighbors and working in their communities to continue the work of long-term recovery.
WhyHunger is grateful for the support and tireless work of our Hungerthon volunteers. Thank you for your commitment to the fight this year, and in the 27 years of Hungerthon history!
For more information on becoming a radio partner, corporate sponsor or volunteer, please contact
or 212-629-3224.
Tune in and listen to Hungerthon on Saturday December 8th and Wednesday December 12th.
WhyHunger offers special thanks to the radio industry for its vital role in Hungerthon’s success. We salute the following airwaves of change for their critical partnerships and unending support: SiriusXM Satellite Radio; CBS Radio Group: WCBS Newsradio 880, Sports Radio 66 WFAN, 1010 WINS, 92.3 NOW; 102.7 Fresh FM, Clear Channel Radio Group: Q104.3 FM, 95.5 WPLJ, WABC Talk Radio; Z100, 103.5 KTU, Power 105.1, 106.7 Lite FM; Univision: 1280 AM WADO; with support from Citadel’s WABC Talk Radio; 90.7 WFUV and internet only stations: Soundpress.net and Rockland World Radio.com.
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With deep gratitude WhyHunger gives special thanks to Yoko Ono Lennon for playing a vital role in our Hungerthon tradition. Eighteen years ago, Mrs. Lennon generously allowed WhyHunger to use Imagine There’s No Hunger, along with John Lennon’s self-portrait and signature, as our Hungerthon theme and logo. Since 2008, WhyHunger has joined forces with Hard Rock International to create IMAGINE THERE’S NO HUNGER, a global campaign to combat childhood hunger and poverty around the world. With the support of Mrs. Lennon, we have raised more than $4.5 million dollars to help communities grow
enough food to provide more than 5.5 million meals to children in 15 different countries and teach thousands of others techniques for sustained food production for a future free of hunger.
Proceeds from the campaign are invested in WhyHunger’s global anti-hunger and poverty work, specifically their grassroots partners operating on the ground in countries around the world, including Kenya; Thailand; India, Haiti and the USA . This year, donations to the Imagine There’s No Hunger campaign will also go to support WhyHunger’s long-time partners in the New York and New Jersey area post Hurricane Sandy. These organizations are on the front lines, providing food, water and critical services to their neighbors in the aftermath of the storm and aiding in their long-term recovery. Area partners include Added Value in Red Hook, Brooklyn and the Community FoodBank of New Jersey.
To launch this year’s imagine campaign, Yoko Ono Lennon will join Hard Rock and WhyHunger to call upon everyONE around the globe to take a moment to Imagine a nourished world free from hunger, where “the world will live as One.” Fans can purchase a limited-edition bracelet, and on Monday, November 19th at 1 p.m. local time, visit celebrations at various Hard Rock locations around the globe, tweet, post, or even text the word
to donate $10 to WhyHunger and help feed a hungry child. Be it ONE bracelet, ONE thought, ONE tweet/post or ONE visit to Hard Rock locations worldwide, we can make a difference ONE child at a time to ensure that no ONE goes hungry again.
We are most grateful to Yoko Ono Lennon and Hard Rock International for their continued generosity and support resulting in changing the lives of children all around the world.
“By Imagining there’s no hunger, like what John sang in his song, we express our strong desire to bring a world in which children will never again suffer from hunger or poverty.” – Yoko Ono Lennon
John Lennon is a trademark of Yoko Ono Lennon. © Yoko Ono Lennon. Licensed exclusively through Bag One Arts, Inc.
32nd Annual John Lennon Tribute: To Benefit WhyHunger
WhyHunger was honored to be a part of this year’s 32nd Annual John Lennon Tribute event, produced by Theatre Within and in association with Music Without Borders at Symphony Space in New York City. An acclaimed group of artists came together to celebrate John Lennon’s music, life and timeless message of peace, love and social activism. In the wake of the recent tragedy of Hurricane Sandy our partners at Yorkville Common Pantry were on-site at the show collecting non-perishable food donations, as well as financial donations to support the vital work they are doing for those in need. Thanks to all who made it an evening to remember.
