** DECEMBER NEWSLETTER
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In this month's newsletter:
1. Hunger Free America Makes the List!
2. Hunger Soaring According to New Hunger Free America Report
3. Sign Up for the MLK Serve-A-Thon 2025
4. Become an AmeriCorps VISTA Host Site
5. Advocacy Corner: Fight for SNAP
6. Hunger Fighter Resources



** Hunger Free America Makes the List!
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** Have you heard? Hunger Free America was just named one of the “ten best New York–based organizations that help our neighbors who need food ([link removed]) ” by Errol Louis in New York Magazine!

By donating to Hunger Free America, you’re not just helping us connect hungry families to needed food benefits, you’re also contributing to the fight for the policies needed to end hunger and poverty in America.
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** Hunger Soaring According to New
Hunger Free America Report
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** Last month, Hunger Free America released our annual hunger survey showing that 28 million Americans didn’t have enough to eat over two one-week periods in August/September of 2024. That’s a 55.2% increase since 2021!

This year, in addition to our survey, we also conducted a nationwide poll of low-income American households with children to assess the impacts of the USDA’s new Summer EBT program which launched last summer in 37 states and Washington, D.C.
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Read Our Full Report ([link removed])


** Sign Up for the MLK Serve-A-Thon 2025
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** For more than 20 years, Hunger Free America has honored MLK's life's work with service and action. Working with partners across the country, we have meaningful opportunities to serve, both in-person and virtually, through volunteer events, panels, and workshops, from January 17-20, 2025.
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** Apply to be a Potential AmeriCorps VISTA Organizational Host Site
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** Hunger Free America is pleased to be starting its preliminary review process for organizational and governmental/tribal agency host sites for our upcoming AmeriCorps VISTA service year, August 2025-August 2026 – in case the federal government again awards Hunger Free America new AmeriCorps VISTA positions nationwide. The future fate of both the VISTA program, and the overall AmeriCorps program, are currently being considered by Congress and the President-Elect. This year, HFA is particularly interested in identifying potential host sites that serve in rural communities, the Mid-South Delta/the Mississippi Deta Region, and/or on tribal lands or serving communities with a high populations of Native American/American Indians.

If your organization, governmental or tribal anti-poverty agency is interested in potentially partnering with HFA on AmeriCorps VISTA, please fill out the form below. If you have any questions, you can email Amy Bonn, Director of Hunger Free America’s AmeriCorps VISTA program:
[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
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** Advocacy Corner: Fight for SNAP
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** Earlier this year, the House Agriculture Committee advanced a Farm Bill proposal that would, according to the Congressional Budget Office, take away $30 billion in SNAP funding. Hunger Free America fiercely opposes this proposal, which would take away life-saving nutrition assistance from tens of millions of food insecure children, working people, veterans, people with disabilities, and older Americans.
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** We urge you to contact your House Representative and US Senator and implore them to reject any Farm Bill that cuts SNAP funding!
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** Hunger Fighter Resources
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** Share the contact information for our Benefits Access ([link removed]) team in your community. Anyone looking for help applying for SNAP or WIC, or applying for SNAP recertification can email us at [email protected] ([link removed]) or call (646) 355-1475.
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** Do you run a food pantry or other feeding program? Make sure you're in our online database ([link removed]) ! Contact our Data Director, Angelica, at [email protected] ([link removed]) for more information.
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Are you a Federal employee or retiree? Then you can contribute to Hunger Free America through the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) using charity code 31291: [link removed] ([link removed])
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