Programs [shortmenu menu="Programs" enhance="false" is_responsive="true" ] Get Involved [shortmenu menu="Get Involved" enhance="false" is_responsive="true" ] Giving Think of summer as does a kid. You probably think of hot summer days, shorts and flip flops, and...

Programs [shortmenu menu="Programs" enhance="false" is_responsive="true" ] Get Involved [shortmenu menu="Get Involved" enhance="false" is_responsive="true" ] Giving Approximately 2.3 million people in the US live in food deserts. So what exactly is a food desert? The...

By Taylor Pate No Kid Hungry Youth Ambassador The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act has been a source of contention and debate since its implementation in 2010. Its focus was to improve child nutrition in schools in order to promote healthy food choices early on. The U....

(Left to right) Donna Hoover, Elaine Ealy, Alice Thomas, Madonna Harris, Judy Wheetley, Alana Jones, Ardelima Macon. Before the EF4 tornado hit central Arkansas on Sunday, April 27th, leaving a 41.3 mile path of destruction, we knew there was something special about...

 "Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. Serving and...

75% of Arkansans who are receiving SNAP benefits are in families with children. Families are struggling to make ends meet. With the unemployment rate in Arkansas above 7%,   the reduction in SNAP benefits that went into effect on November 1st, and the possibility that...

Thanksgiving is a distinctly American tradition. We all know the history of our Native American brothers and sisters who shared their bounty with the hungry Pilgrims. Giving thanks for all that we have and for all the people we love is at the heart of this very...

More than 100 people took Cooking Matters at the Store grocery tours yesterday at Walmart’s Neighborhood Market on Cantrell in Little Rock. People from as far away as Dumas traveled to Little Rock to participate in the day-long event that focused on ways to stretch...

With budgets tight and getting tighter by the day, hunger relief agencies are looking for additional resources to expand programs or help them meet the demand for emergency food. For some agencies the need is for increased shelving in their pantries, for others it may...

SNAP & WIC By Christy Felling  Public Relations Director for Share Our Strength, October 1, 2013                         As the clock struck midnight in Washington last night, the bitterly divided...

  The recession has meant that high numbers of all types of households have been struggling to purchase adequate food, but households with children suffered extraordinarily high rates, according to a new national report released today. In surveys running for five...