Foods Resource Bank is made up of 15 Christian denominations and agencies that work at the grass roots with farmers and communities to develop local food security. Modeled after a Canadian program, it has both overseas and U.S. projects. Contact Marv Baldwin, president and CEO of the group, which has offices in Illinois and Michigan.

The ELCA World Hunger program helps alleviate hunger through advocacy, education, relief and sustainable development.

Catholic Charities USA works in various areas such as adoption counseling, disaster relief, poverty awareness and raising awareness of social issues such as human trafficking and racial inequality. It works to provide aid to people in need and to activate the Catholic population to action. Kerry Alys Robinson is president & CEO.

WhyHunger is a New York-based organization that focuses on hunger and poverty nationally and internationally. Contact through Debbie Grunbaum.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors, the organization of American cities with populations of 30,000 or greater, has been surveying hunger and homelessness in urban areas for more than two decades.

Share Our Strength, an anti-hunger organization based in Washington, D.C., focuses on ending childhood hunger in America.

RESULTS is a nonprofit grassroots advocacy organization in Washington, D.C., that works to create the political will to end hunger. Joanne Carter is executive director.

The National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness educates and trains students to work on hunger and homelessness issues. It’s based in Chicago.

Food Research and Action Center is a Washington, D.C., advocacy group working on public policy and public-private partnerships on food and hunger issues. The organization maintains statistics about poverty and food insecurity.