Este septiembre, las comunidades de todo el país se comprometen a luchar contra el hambre. Con cada acción, nos acercamos un paso más a nuestra visión de un Arkansas sin hambre. ¿Cómo puedes ayudar a tu comunidad? ¡Aquí hay seis maneras en las que puedes participar!

El condado de Pulaski y Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance se asociaron a principios de este año para crear un programa para mejorar la salud pública y reducir el hambre en el condado de Pulaski, especialmente entre los residentes de la tercera edad y los confinados en sus hogares. La Iniciativa de Reducción del Hambre del Condado de Pulaski...

La Iniciativa de Reducción del Hambre del Condado de Pulaski proporciona fondos para las despensas de alimentos que sirven al Condado de Pulaski. El condado de Pulaski y Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance se han asociado para crear un nuevo programa para mejorar la salud pública y reducir el hambre en el condado de Pulaski, especialmente...

  Jasper School District is one of the most rural in Arkansas – it covers 615 square miles in five counties, with about 900 students across three campuses. The school has delivered meals to at least 300 families every week since the pandemic began, and often up...

Jeremy K. Everett, national hunger expert and author of I Was Hungry, joins us via Zoom on Thursday, April 28, at 11:30 a.m. to talk about his experiences and how common ground and collaboration is vital to community organizations fighting hunger. Jeremy is founder and executive director of the Texas Hunger Initiative, an organization that partners with the US Department of Agriculture, state agencies, the corporate sector, and thousands of faith- and community-based organizations to develop and implement strategies to alleviate hunger.

It’s no surprise to learn that students are better behaved after eating breakfast served during the school day, and now we have Arkansas data to prove it.

In a new article, “School Breakfast and Student Behavior” published March 2022 in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Andres Cuadros-Meñaca and Michael R. Thomsen from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Rodolfo M. Nayga, Jr. from Texas A&M University, seek to answer the question of whether children’s behavior improved after their schools started delivering Breakfast after the Bell (BAB) – breakfast offered after the school day begins.

The Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance is pleased to announce 131 organizations have been awarded a total of $188,827 through the Capacity Building Grant program. Funds for the annual grants are allocated from the State Food Purchasing Program and have been administered...

This year during School Breakfast Month we are celebrating the heroic, front-line and difficult work of all of our school district child nutrition teams as they managed to continue to provide much-needed, nutritious school meals to their students through the pandemic.