Web Sites
General and State-Specific Hunger Information/Statistics:
http://www.idahofoodbank.org/ is the best site for information on hunger/food insecurity in Idaho
http://www.oregonfoodbank.org/ is the Oregon foodbank site.
www.secondharvest.org provides a connection of food banks and food rescue organizations serving all fifty states. This web site features up-to-date hunger statistics.
http://www.centeronhunger.org/pdf/full_state_rankings.pdf contains tables of rankings by households by state.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Browse/FoodNutritionAssistance/ is the USDA food and nutrition assistance portal. It gives statistical comparisons by state.
http://irp.idaho.gov/Default.aspx?tabid=400 contains the full report from the Idaho Summit on Hunger and Food Insecurity that took place in October 2006.
http://irp.idaho.gov/Default.aspx?tabid=204 gives a profile of rural Idaho.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/default.htm is the USDA food and nutrition service site.
Poverty/Living Wage/Job Gap Information:
http://www.nwfco.org/job_gap.htm provides the most current information on the gap between jobs and living wages in the northwest. Click on individual states for 2005 cost-of-living information.
General Hunger Sites:
http://www.bread.org/ is a primary interdenominational organization focusing on public policy issues addressing hunger both domestically and internationally.
Federal Support Programs:
http://www.frac.org/ from the Food Research and Action Center contains the latest U.S. hunger statistics, explanation of and information on child nutrition programs, food stamps, and federal nutrition programs.
Needs Assessment and Data Collection Sites:
http://www.worldhungeryear.org/fslc/ria_020.asp?section=10&click=1 is the World Hunger Year site. Includes a link to case studies of community food assessments and otherl useful sites.
http://www.foodsecurity.org/cfa_home.html This website serves as a clearinghouse for food assessment-related tools and resources, including reports and information from numerous past and current assessments. It includes information from Oregon (but not Idaho) but has a particular emphasis on California.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/efan02013/ has a detailed, somewhat technical manual by the USDA on conducting a community food security assessment.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/saipe/tables.html#mod helps locate food stamp data at the state and county level
http://ers.usda.gov/Data/sfsp/ is the site for the summer food service program map machine. You can find specific feeding sites within a zip code and the number or percent of children under the 185% poverty line.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/FoodStamps/ is the food stamp map machine
http://ers.usda.gov/Data/ gets you into a lot of data.
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/saipe/saipe.cgi county median income and percent of people and percent of children in poverty
Study/Education Sites:
http://www.bread.org/ is a primary interdenominational organization focusing on public policy issues addressing hunger both domestically and internationally.
http://www.worldhungeryear.org/fslc/beyondemergency.pdf is a guide for moving beyond emergency food assistance. It contains information on options such as community gardens, food recovery, job training, and features stories of several model projects.
www.mazon.org Sponsored by the American Jewish community, it has a hunger quiz, links to other resources, and a call to political advocacy.
http://www.hungernomore.org/web_resources.html offers a downloadable version of the teaching curriculum (Christian or Jewish) as well as links to many other hunger-related sites.
http://www.worldhungeryear.org/fslc/ is an electronic learning center that pulls together in one place information on community food security, nutrition, domestic hunger and poverty, federal food programs, rural poverty, the family farm crisis, and migrant workers.
http://www.usccb.org/cchd/povertyusa/edcenter/index.shtml the Catholic Campaign for Human Development site features a poverty quiz, the voices of poverty, and up-to-date statistics on hunger in America
http://www.ncccusa.org/ the National Council of Churches site has links to resources for ministry and mission on poverty, environmental issues and other justice-related subjects
http://www.ncccusa.org/hunger/ A powerful TV documentary presented by the National Council of Churches. The program is available on DVD and VHS video, along with a study guide keyed to the content.
Advocacy Sites:
http://www.bread.org/ is a primary interdenominational organization focusing on public policy issues addressing hunger both domestically and internationally.
www.mazon.org Sponsored by the American Jewish community, it has a hunger quiz, links to other resources, and a call to political advocacy.
Hunger No More. Milano, The Rev. Mary. Bread for the World. A six-week basic, introductory curriculum for people of faith, applicable to children, youth or adults
Finding Solutions To Hunger: Kids Can make a Difference. Stephanie Kempf, World Hunger Year, New York, 2005. http://www.kidscanmakeadifference.org. is a sourcebook for middle and upper school teachers for a study on hunger.
Love for the Poor. Casey, Crossin, Crump, Grieb; Mitchell, Riggs for The National Council of the Churches of Christ USA. Cincinnati: Friendship Press, 2005.
Ending Hunger Now. McGovern, Dole, Messer. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005
Finding Solutions to Hunger: A Sourcebook for Middle and Upper School Teachers. Kempf, Stephanie. New York: World Hunger Year, 2005. This resource guide offers a non-sectarian approach to teaching students about world hunger and contains a call to action – a challenge that youth can meet.
http://www.ncccusa.org/hunger/ A powerful TV documentary presented by the National Council of Churches. The program is available on DVD and VHS video, along with a study guide keyed to the content.
Books
A Blueprint to End Hunger. Brewer, Brown, Bunch, Dean, Doran, O’Brien, Parker, Prendergast, Schokman, Vollinger. The National Anti-Hunger Organizations, 2004.
Food for Life: The Spirituality and Ethics of Eating. Jung, L. Shannon. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time. Sachs, Jeffrey D. New York: Penguin, 2005.
From Colombus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food. Bonanno, Alessandro, Lawrence Busch, William Friedland, Lourdes Goveia, and Enzo Mingione, eds. Rural America series. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1994.
The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time. McGovern, George. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Grace at the Table: Ending Hunger in God’s World. Beckmann, David and Simon, Arthur. New York: Paulist, 1999.
Cry Justice! The Bible on Hunger and Poverty. Sider, Ronald, ed. InterVarsity Press
Reinvesting In America. Garr, Robin. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1995.