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

Hunger Action Month brings awareness of child food insecurity

September 7, 2023

A superhero has extraordinary powers and performs heroic actions. Connecting Kids to Meals wants the community to know that everyone has the power to become a “Hunger Action SuperHero” by joining the fight against childhood food insecurity. Read more here. […]

Mayors in South Dakota focus on ending childhood hunger

August 25, 2023

Greater Rockford Pantry Coalition announces Mayor’s Hunger Campaign

August 7, 2023

Today the mayor and members of the Greater Rockford Pantry Coalition announced the public phase of the Mayor’s Hunger Campaign. Read more here. […]

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. […]