Share Our Strength is a national organization working to end childhood hunger and poverty in the United States. Share Our Strength holds culinary events, solicits individual donations, and uses social media to raise funds, which are then used to fund long-term solutions to the hunger problem. Through corporate sponsorships, Share Our Strength funds are significantly magnified. No Kid Hungry is a national campaign run by Share Our Strength.
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| Abbreviation | SOS |
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| Formation | 1984 (1984) |
| Type | Non-profit |
| Legal status | 501(c)(3) |
| Purpose | To end child hunger. |
| Headquarters | Washington, DC |
Region served | United States (w/ some international grants funding) |
Budget (2017) | $56.18 million[1] |
| Website | nokidhungry |
| Remarks | Share Our Strength serves dual purposes of helping to end child hunger through both state partnerships, field work, and granting money to other hunger-oriented non-profit organizations. |
Share Our Strength was founded in 1984 by brother and sister Billy and Debbie Shore, who continue to lead the organization today. It "began in the basement of a row house on Capitol Hill", and from the beginning, it was focused on looking for long-term solutions to seemingly eternal problems. During these early years, Share Our Strength focused almost exclusively on fundraising and granted its funds out entirely to other nonprofit organizations.[2]
In 2020, the organization came under fire for declining a $200,000 donation from the American rapper 6ix9ine. Laura Washburn, the strategic communications director of No Kid Hungry, stated: "We are grateful for Mr. Hernandez's generous offer to donate to No Kid Hungry but we have informed his representatives that we have declined this donation...As a child-focused campaign, it is our policy to decline funding from donors whose activities do not align with our mission and values."
6ix9ine responded on Instagram, saying, "@nokidhungry rather take food out the mouth of these innocent children I never seen something so cruel."
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