By Diana Aviv | Chief Executive Officer
With your generous support, the Feeding America network provides food and groceries to 46 million people each year, including 12 million children. Providing meals is critically important, yet you have helped us enhance our work so we are able to accomplish even more. We have developed new ways of sourcing a wider variety of nutritious foods. We have also devised creative strategies for offering impactful nutrition education in addition to groceries. Our recent work demonstrates how you enable us to provide meals and so much more.
During National Nutrition Month® in March, Feeding America highlighted how we help families facing hunger receive both healthy food and nutrition education. We shared with the public that 69% of the food that the network receives is classified by Feeding America as Foods to Encourage, or food that promotes good health, such as fruits, vegetables, dairy, whole grains and proteins. We also shed light on how food banks provide nutrition education through leveraging nutrition resources from Feeding America and offering programs that include cooking demonstrations, healthy food samples and much more. You help us provide nutrients to many people—including millions of children, who need nourishing meals and nutrition education to keep up with their classmates on the playground and in the classroom.
In April, Feeding America is celebrating Earth Day by sharing how we divert good food away from landfills and instead provide it to people in need. As the largest food-rescue organization in the nation, Feeding America rescues billions of meals from a broad range of food-related businesses every year. And thanks to you, we are investing in pioneering approaches to food rescue, including building new partnerships that will achieve significant scale and expanding new technologies that will unlock more meals.
Providing nutrition education and preventing food waste help us maximize our positive impact on the 1 in 8 people in our country who struggle with hunger. Thank you for joining us as we meet the need for meals in America while also seeking to enhance our work. Together, we can provide families facing hunger with the tools they need to reach for success.
Every day, your support helps Feeding America do more. We help provide more nutritious food to children facing hunger by facilitating access to fresh produce. We develop more robust strategies for alleviating hunger by collaborating with top academic and research professionals to better understand the face of hunger. And we rescue more food from going to waste by working with food companies and sharing our food rescue expertise with partners. Read the updates below to learn more about our recent innovations and achievements, which were fueled by your commitment to our mission.
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