Hunger & food security charities

An all-volunteer 501(c)(3) food pantry in Nelsonville that has served Athens County residents since 1989, giving more than 600 families a month a 3-day supply of groceries in Ohio's Appalachian southeast.

A volunteer-run nonprofit fighting food insecurity in Athens County since 1980, bolstered by the Joe Burrow Hunger Relief Fund endowment.

A community action agency empowering Hocking, Athens, and Perry counties through the SE Ohio Foodbank (serving 10 counties), Head Start early childhood education, energy assistance, housing, and transportation.

A small U.S. 501(c)(3) working in low-income neighborhoods of northern Medellín, running an ambulance and emergency-response service (Emergencias Apolo), coding classes (Recode the Future), food package deliveries and a Christmas toy program.

Fights hunger and poverty by cooking scratch-made meals for D.C. shelters, nonprofits, youth programs and public schools — about 6.2 million in 2025 — while training adults facing barriers to employment for food-service careers.

Uses its own volunteer-powered Food Rescue Hero app to redirect fresh surplus food from retailers to nonprofits serving people facing food insecurity in roughly 30-minute rescue runs, fighting hunger and food waste at the same time.

A faith-based, volunteer-powered nonprofit that supplies food to about 2,400 local pantries, kitchens, shelters and other nonprofits from 12 locations across the U.S., East Africa and Haiti, distributing 139 million pounds of food in the past year.

Engages volunteers to package nutritious meals for school feeding and other hunger programs while investing in longer-term food security, such as helping smallholder farmers in Malawi, with operations in the U.S., India, Italy, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and South Africa.

Helps rural communities in nine African countries, Bangladesh, India and Mexico end their own hunger by starting with women, mobilizing local leadership and engaging local government. In Africa it groups villages into self-reliant 'epicenters'.