Mayors in Action

Mayors work to end childhood hunger by engaging with community leaders to utilize innovative ideas and approaches to ensure equitable access to food for all of their city’s children and to improve utilization of important existing programs such as afterschool and summer meals.

LATEST NEWS

Scranton Mayor Paige Cognettion on Non-partisan Solutions

July 27, 2023

Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti talks about local government solutions to problems like hunger and poverty in President Biden’s hometown. “We’re working really, really hard to improve quality of life and to prove the case to people, to families, whether they’ve been here for generations or whether they’re first generation that the American dream is alive.” […]

Pittsburgh finalized a plan to spend $3 million fighting food insecurity

July 18, 2023

City Council approved a spending plan for the newly created Food Justice Fund on Tuesday, with a goal of supporting grassroots and larger efforts to improve food access in Pittsburgh. Read more here. […]

Summer is here, and so are free meals for kids!

June 30, 2023

Understanding this urgent issue, Mayor Bruce Harrell, a recently inducted member of the nationwide Mayors Alliance to End Childhood Hunger, the Seattle Human Services Department (HSD), Seattle Parks and Recreation, and United Way King County have announced the launch of the 2023 Summer Food Services Program also known as Summer Meals Program. This program, beginning July […]

Food Bank of Southern California to open new North Long Beach ‘sharehouse’

June 20, 2023

Each year, the Food Bank of Southern California provides an average of 40 million pounds of food to over 850,000 children, adults and seniors throughout Los Angeles County.

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Hammoud Joins City Leaders from across U.S. in Coalition to Fight Childhood Hunger

June 12, 2023

Dearborn Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud has joined more than 100 mayors from 40 states and District of Columbia in a mayoral coalition to fight childhood hunger. […]