About The Library
Welcome to the Hunger Free Communities Network’s online resource library! This ever growing database serves as a one-stop shop and home base for anti-hunger organizers featuring toolkits, case studies, research, online tools, community plans and other resources generated by the Alliance to End Hunger, our national partners and hunger free community coalitions across the country.
This is a user-driven tool, so feel free to rate resources and leave a comment! Also, please submit your own resources, so we can share your good ideas with others.
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- Keyword Search: To run a keyword search, simply type the word(s) or phrase(s) you’re looking for into the box on the top right of the page (e.g. USDA, child hunger) and click “submit.”
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When the search results appear, click on the title of the resource for a more detailed description of that resource. There you’ll be able to directly access the resource.
Featured Resources
The Self-Assessment Workbook (SAW): The goal of the SAW is to assist a HFC coalition in determining for itself the critical elements for effective organizational management and network functioning and to identify those areas in need of strengthening or further development. The SAW is designed to enable organizational learning, foster team sharing, and encourage reflective self-assessment within an anti-hunger coalition. It can be used for strategic planning, evaluation and building group cohesion.
The Advocacy Playbook: The Advocacy Playbook is the Alliance to End Hunger’s signature advocacy toolkit and resource. It helps make the case for why advocacy a good idea and provides guidance on how your coalition or organization can help the cause.
Toolkit for Developing and Strengthening Hunger Free Community Coalitions: This provides a step-by-step guide for building coalitions, plus it gives best practices examples from the field, ideas for implementation, and practical tools. We hope it serves as a jumping off point for your local community’s efforts to find a solution to food insecurity.
Evaluation of the Impact of Enhancement Demonstrations on Participation in the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP): FY 2011
By USDA Food and Nutrition Service
The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), is a component of the safety net for the Nation’s low-income children, offering nutritious meals to needy children during the summer months when school is not in session. While the number of children participating in the...
Read MoreEvaluation of the Summer Food Service Program Enhancement Demonstrations: 2011 Demonstration Evaluation Report
By USDA Food and Nutrition Service
This report studies the methods used through the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). The Meal Delivery demonstration project was implemented in Delaware, Massachusetts, and New York in 2011 and is operating again in 2012. It offers food delivery to the homes or drop-off sites near homes of eligible children in rural areas. Only children identified...
Read MoreSummer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (SEBTC) Demonstration: Evaluation Findings for the Proof-of- Concept Year
By US Department of Agriculture
The US Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) provides out-of-session meals and snacks to children eligible for free of reduced-price breakfast/lunch during school months. In contrast, the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (SEBTC) is an electronic cash transfer to the family of an eligible child using either the existing WIC or SNAP...
Read MoreThe Pennsylvania SFSP Rural Area Eligibility Pilot Evaluation
By U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Pennsylvania SFSP Rural Area Eligibility Pilot Evaluation studies the efficacy and viability of using The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). SFSP operated a pilot in rural areas of Pennsylvania during the summers of 2005 and 2006. The purpose of the pilot was to test whether lowering the threshold for site eligibility in low-income areas...
Read MoreChild Food Insecurity in the United States: 2006-2008
By Feeding America
This Feeding America report presents child food insecurity rates in the United States. The report analyzes the USDA food security data to provide state-level child food insecurity estimates. These estimates improve the level of detail available to policymakers, service providers and others concerned with the well-being of children.
Read MoreSodexo Summer Meals Outreach Toolkit
Share Our Strength has developed this toolkit to help you get the word out through the media and outreach materials about summer meals programs in your city or state. The toolkit has simple instructions and easy-to-use templates to help your organization work with the media to promote summer meals programs, as well as outreach materials...
Read MoreTackling Summer Hunger: Ensuring No Kid Goes Hungry When School Is Out
“Tackling Summer Hunger” provides details about the summer meals program and how Share Our Strength and its partners are successfully tackling summer hunger. The report provides background information on the issue of hungry kids during the summer months while highlighting Share Our Strength’s investments that increase access to food. Marketing and outreach techniques are highlighted...
Read MoreIndicators of Sustainability Scoring Matrix: Summer Food
By Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon
“Indicators of Sustainability Scoring Matrix” provides a template for evaluating summer feeding programs. Based on the tool, a summer food site is rated based on certain goals like having adequate capacity to implement the Summer Food Program or having community awareness of the program and its services. Under each goal, certain benchmarks are highlighted such...
Read MoreSetting the Table to Address Family Hunger
By Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon
“Setting the Table to Address Family Hunger” gives a summary of the caregiver meals pilot project, which provides free meals to adults accompanying children at summer feeding sites. The project makes the argument that providing free caregiver meals in conjunction with summer feeding programs is a benefit to the children, the families and program sponsors....
Read MoreA Summer Food Guide: The step-by-step guide to running the USDA’s Summer Food Service Program in Oregon
By Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon
“A Summer Food Guide” is a comprehensive “how to” guide for an individual or a group who is interested in running a Summer Food Service Program in Oregon. It provides some background information on hunger in Oregon and Summer Food in general before addressing in step-by-step detail the process of starting a summer food site....
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