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Food Equality Initiative fights for nutrition security and health equity for all.

Founded in 2003, Advocates for Community Wellness (A4CW). is to promote a culture of health through education of healthy lifestyles, fitness and nutrition. We seek to raise awareness, reduce health disparities and risk factors linked to chronic diseases in underserved communities.

Plant It Forward (PIF)’s mission is to train and support refugees to operate urban farms businesses throughout Houston. Plant It Forward builds a greener Houston by: growing fresh, local, pesticide-free vegetables and fruit; giving our farmers an opportunity to build a self-sustaining, free market enterprise in America for themselves and their families; and building our community by integrating our farms into neighborhoods. Our vision is a farm in every neighborhood, operated by people achieving the American Dream.

Our mission is to change lives by providing kids access to health and fitness education.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is a consumer advocacy organization whose twin missions are to conduct innovative research and advocacy programs in health and nutrition, and to provide consumers with current, useful information about their health and well-being. In general, CSPI's three main goals are: To provide useful, objective information to the public and policymakers and to conduct research on food, alcohol, health, the environment, and other issues related to science and technology; To represent the citizen's interests before regulatory, judicial and legislative bodies on food, alcohol, health, the environment, and other issues; and To ensure that science and technology are used for the public good and to encourage scientists to engage in public-interest activities.

The South Plains Food Bank, Inc. was founded in 1983. Through its various programs, the South Plains Food Bank, Inc. has become a humanitarian resource with responsibility for securing, growing, processing and/or distributing food to charitable organizations and persons in need. The South Plains Food Bank, Inc. strives to be a model for community partnerships and a catalyst for social change by providing opportunities for persons to break out of the poverty cycle. The South Plains Food Bank, Inc. is a member of Feeding America and the Feeding Texas Food Bank Networks.

The Food Depot is committed to ending hunger in Northern New Mexico. As the food bank for nine Northern New Mexico counties, The Food Depot provides food to 135 not-for-profit agencies including emergency food pantries, hot meal programs, homeless shelters, youth programs, senior centers, homes for the mentally disabled and shelters for battered persons. This service enables these agencies to stay focused on their primary missions such as sheltering homeless families, providing hot meals to the homebound and offering life skills development to youth. The food bank distributes an average of 300,000 pounds of food and household products each month, providing more than 400,000 meals to people in need, the most vulnerable of our community - children, seniors, working families and those in ill health.

Kids Against Hunger is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to significantly reduce the number of undernourished children in the United States and to feed starving children throughout the world. Since its launch, Kids Against Hunger has provided over two billion meals for children and their families in more than 70 countries through the efforts of hundreds of thousands of volunteers. Our highly nutritious rice-soy casserole is fortified with 21 essential vitamins and 9 minerals in addition to our Fiesta Rice meal and Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal. These protein and nutrient-rich formulas reverse the starvation process and improves physical health as well as a child's mental capacity to learn. The goal of the organization is for its meals to provide a nutritional base from which recipient families can move their families to self-sufficiency.

Appetite For Change uses food as a tool to build health, wealth and social change in North Minneapolis.

PATHHSEO (Programs Advocacy Towards ending Health dsparities and Hunger via Service Education and Organization) is working for short and long term solutions to eradicate hunger and health disparities. Founded in 2009 with the ultimate goal of a "Human Race Free of Dependency' "Help to Heal the Hurt of Hunger and the Consequences of Poverty"

The mission of Comfort Food Community is to contribute to the health of our community through the inspirational power of good food.

Partner for Surgery was founded in 2001 to serve as a bridge between patients in need of major health and surgical care in remote communities and the international volunteer triage and surgical teams that come to Guatemala to help the impoverished; and to educate and empower rural Guatemalans to initiate and advocate for vital health care services on their own behalf.