Hunger Solutions New York

In the last year, Hunger Solutions New York's Nutrition Outreach and Education Program helped more than 32,500 households apply for and begin receiving SNAP benefits.

Our WIC Help New York targeted outreach project contributed to a 17 percent increase in WIC participation and directly resulted in more than 9,000 referrals to WIC programs.

We co-lead the Healthy School Meals for All New York Kids Campaign, a coalition of more than 280 education, anti-hunger, health, agriculture, and nutrition-focused partner organizations, focused on establishing permanent, statewide universal school meals in New York. While our work to establish universal school meals continues, in 2023 the campaign earned broad bi-partisan support among lawmakers, leading to an unprecedented $134.6 million investment in last year’s state budget to expand free school meals.

In 2023, our CACFP outreach project contributed to a statewide increase of 27 newly approved CACFP sponsors and 137 new sites providing healthy meals for children in care. Our statewide outreach and technical assistance for summer meals supported strong participation across the state, with over 440 sponsors approved to operate more than 2,300 meal sites in summer 2023.