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* 2006: Rod Brooks joins the organization as CEO.<ref name="guidestar">{{cite web |url= http://www.guidestar.org/pqShowGsReport.do?partner=justgivews&ein=16-1541024 |title=GuideStar information page on SHN |accessdate=2009-08-09}}</ref>
* 2006: Rod Brooks joins the organization as CEO.<ref name="guidestar">{{cite web |url= http://www.guidestar.org/pqShowGsReport.do?partner=justgivews&ein=16-1541024 |title=GuideStar information page on SHN |accessdate=2009-08-09}}</ref>
* 2007: SHN had provided more than $6.8 million in aid to crisis areas. Operations Sharehouse had at this point packed a total of 5.2 million meals with over 15,000 volunteers. SHN provided direct relief to crisis areas in forms such as digging wells and providing medicine.
* 2007: SHN had provided more than $6.8 million in aid to crisis areas. Operations Sharehouse had at this point packed a total of 5.2 million meals with over 15,000 volunteers. SHN provided direct relief to crisis areas in forms such as digging wells and providing medicine.
* 2008: SHN packed 5.9 million meals this year alone, and holds record-breaking meal packaging event of 1,010,374 meals.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.stophungernow.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5598 |title=Stop Hunger Now provides more aid than ever in 2008 |accessdate=2009-08-09}}http://www.stophungernow.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5598</ref>
* 2008: SHN packed 5.9 million meals this year alone, and holds record-breaking meal packaging event of 1,010,374 meals.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.stophungernow.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5598 |title=Stop Hunger Now provides more aid than ever in 2008 |accessdate=2009-08-09}}</ref>


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Stop Hunger Now
AbbreviationSHN
Formation1998 (1998)
TypeNon-profit
Legal status501(c)(3)
PurposeTo provide food and life-saving aid to the world's most destitute and hungry in the most efficient, effective and sustainable manner.
HeadquartersRaleigh, NC
Region served
Scores of countries worldwide
Budget
$13.2 million USD annually[1]
Websitestophungernow.org

Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world. The organization is driven by a vision to end world hunger in our lifetime and a mission to provide food and life-saving aid to the world’s most destitute and hungry in the most sustainable, efficient and effective manner.[2]

Stop Hunger Now's Operation Sharehouse program is a volunteer-based effort through which participants package high protein, dehydrated meals for use in crisis situations and which provides a highly nutritious meal to support school feeding programs in schools and orphanages around the world.[2]

In its efforts to respond to emergency needs around the world Stop Hunger Now receives and distributes significant donations of in-kind aid. These donations are large quantities of food, medicines, medical supplies and other such items as may be of use in fighting hunger and providing relief in a crisis.[2]

Mission

Stop Hunger Now's mission is to provide food and life-saving aid to the world's most destitute and hungry in the most efficient, effective and sustainable manner.[3]

Funding

Stop Hunger Now receives its funding primarily from church organizations, individual donations, and corporate sponsorships. Stop Hunger Now has already provided more than $100 million USD[4] to more than 70 countries of great need.[5]

Stop Hunger Now has the coveted 4-star Charity Navigator rating[6], having exceeded industry standards and outperformed most charities in the cause.[7].

Partners

Stop Hunger Now partners with organizations worldwide to help them locate and to distrubute aid. Partners include:

  • Abundant Harvest Gardens
  • Alice Orphanage and Women
  • Alliance to End Hunger
  • Amigos Internacionales
  • Bahati Community Center, Kenya
  • Breedlove
  • Carolina for Kibera
  • Children of Vietnam
  • CitiHope International
  • Colegio Hope
  • Convoy of Hope
  • Emkweltmission Children Projects, Liberia
  • Food for the Hungry, Inc.
  • Food for the Poor
  • Foods Resource Bank
  • Gleaning for the World
  • Haiti Outreach Ministries
  • Haiti Vision
  • Hope Enterprises
  • Iglesia Cristiana Bethel - Mexico
  • InterAction
  • International Aid, Inc.
  • International Food Bank
  • Islamic Relief Agency
  • MAP International
  • Mercy & Sharing
  • Middle East Council of Churches
  • Professionals Incorporated
  • Reach Now International
  • Rotarians Against Hunger
  • Rotary International
  • Save the Children
  • Safe Passage
  • UMCOR
  • Universal Aide Society
  • Universities Fighting World Hunger
  • Wisconsin/Nicaragua Partners
  • Zigbou Missionaries, Liberia

Programs

Operation Sharehouse Program

A volunteer-driven program, Operation Sharehouse provides the opportunity for people of all ages to come together to package nutritious meals for the world’s hungry. The dehydrated meals include rice, soy, vegetables, and flavored vitamins.[4] Each meal costs only 25 cents.[4]

Six servings of meals are funneled into a bag and then sealed. A long shelf life of 3-5 years allows them to be used in school feeding programs and orphanages worldwide.[4]

Rapid Response Program

SHN responds to disasters within 72 hours, with food and medical aid.[8]

Emergency Food Relief Program

SHN provides emergency food aid, medical supplies and food-related necessities to areas impacted by natural disasters, civil upheaval, drought and famine.[8]

Seeds Program

SHN equips people in areas of chronic drought and famine with the resources necessary to rebuild their lives. By providing seeds for planting, experts in specialty and experimental gardening projects, and tools, we encourage self-sufficiency and independence in these populations.[8]

Medicines

SHN provides life-saving medicine and medical support in crisis areas. Our medical programs help local partner organizations increase life expectancy of recipients in their countries by providing items such as: parasite medicine, cough syrup, antibiotics and other life-saving medicines.[8]

Micro-credit Loans

SHN gives new opportunities to impoverished women to climb out of poverty. It funds partner organizations, allowing them to provide low-interest, revolving loans aimed at empowering women to start their own businesses.

Capacity Building Program

SHN supports partner organizations with capacity building grants designed to improve transportation of food aid, and upgrade food storage locations and local program infrastructure. These improvements lead to more effective use of resources, better channeling of emergency food relief, and greater cost-effectiveness.

History

Since 1998, the organization has coordinated the distribution of food and other lifesaving aid to children and families in countries all over the world.[9]

Stop Hunger Now created its meal packaging program, Operation Sharehouse, in 2005. The program perfected the assembly process that combines rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables and a flavoring mix including 21 essential vitamins and minerals into small meal packets. The food stores easily, has a shelf-life of five years and transports quickly for delivery to remote areas for school lunch feeding programs and crisis situations.[9]

In 2007, more than 3.5 million meals were assembled. Surpassing projections, another 5.9 million meals were packaged in 2008.[9]

Timeline

  • 1998: Stop Hunger Now was founded.
  • 1999: Co-founder Ray Buchanan moved to Raleigh, NC for access to international corporate community and an airport.
  • 2000: Stop Hunger Now developed a $250,000 relief project for Sierra Leone that will focused on holistic care for children affected by poverty and war.[10]
  • 2001: Organization operated in more than 30 countries.[11] and received more than $900,000 in contributions.[12]
  • 2003: Stop Hunger Now campaigns for peaceful resolution of Middle East situation[13][14][15]
  • 2004: SHN helped to raise $8 million to feed and clothe the people of Afghanistan.
  • 2005: Stop Hunger Now launches Operation Sharehouse program[16].
  • 2006: Rod Brooks joins the organization as CEO.[17]
  • 2007: SHN had provided more than $6.8 million in aid to crisis areas. Operations Sharehouse had at this point packed a total of 5.2 million meals with over 15,000 volunteers. SHN provided direct relief to crisis areas in forms such as digging wells and providing medicine.
  • 2008: SHN packed 5.9 million meals this year alone, and holds record-breaking meal packaging event of 1,010,374 meals.[18]

External links

Notes

  1. ^ "Stop Hunger Now 2008 tax form 990" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  2. ^ a b c "Stop Hunger Now homepage". Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  3. ^ "Stop Hunger Now mission page". Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  4. ^ a b c d "NC Mission page about SHN". Retrieved 2009-08-09. Cite error: The named reference "ncm" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Stop Hunger Now FAQ's". Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  6. ^ "Charity Navigator page about SHN". Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  7. ^ "Charity Navigator FAQ: How do I interpret your star system?". Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  8. ^ a b c d "Interaction information page about SHN". Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  9. ^ a b c "SHN "about" page". Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  10. ^ "Stop Hunger Now to reach children in Sierra Leone". Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  11. ^ "Raleigh Group Works To Help Displaced Afghan Refugees". Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  12. ^ "Group Seeks Blankets for Afghans, Raleigh Organization Links with Church, Tries to Relieve Suffering". Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  13. ^ "United Methodists to participate in peace mission to Iraq". Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  14. ^ "United Methodists among those requesting meeting with Bush". Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  15. ^ "White House Vague on War Cost Estimates". Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  16. ^ "VolunteerMatch information page on SHN". Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  17. ^ "GuideStar information page on SHN". Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  18. ^ "Stop Hunger Now provides more aid than ever in 2008". Retrieved 2009-08-09.
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