Partners of The ConAgra Foods Foundation

Our Partnerships

National Partnerships

The ConAgra Foods Foundation partners with some of the nation’s top nonprofit organizations that are making a difference in communities from coast to coast. In fact, three of our partners are recognized in the book Forces for Good, as leading, high-impact nonprofit organizations.

Feeding America®

For almost two decades, ConAgra Foods has partnered with Feeding America®, the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief organization. Today, the ConAgra Foods Foundation continues its legacy as Feeding America’s Leadership Partner in the Fight to End Child Hunger and is recognized for leading the largest corporate initiative among Feeding America donors dedicated solely to ending child hunger.

The Feeding America network of more than 200 food banks across the nation distributes food and grocery products to approximately 63,000 local charitable hunger-relief agencies that address hunger in all its forms. This includes food pantries, soup kitchens, women's shelters, Kids Cafes, community kitchens and other organizations that provide emergency food assistance to more than 37 million Americans, including 14 million children.

Since 1993, ConAgra Foods and the Foundation have dedicated both food and funds to Feeding America resulting in donations of nearly 247 million pounds of food and nearly $35 million dollars toward alleviating hunger. This partnership has allowed Feeding America and its network to serve millions of Americans in need nationwide. With a recent $10 million commitment to Feeding America, we continue to help build capacity for the organization to serve even more people, especially children and families in need.

Share Our Strength®

Share Our Strength®, a national nonprofit, is dedicated to ending childhood hunger in America by connecting children with the nutritious food they need to lead active, healthy lives. Through its No Kid Hungry Campaign™  − a national effort to end childhood hunger in America by 2105 − Share Our Strength ensures families know how to find and enroll in food and nutrition programs that can help them, , invests in community organizations fighting hunger, mobilizes a broad cross-section of the American public to make a difference locally and builds public-private partnerships to end hunger, both nationally and at the state level.

Additionally, the ConAgra Foods Foundation partners with Share Our Strength as the national sponsor of Cooking Matters™, which teaches families at risk of hunger how to prepare healthy and affordable meals.  The program’s hands-on courses are led by expert culinary and nutrition volunteers who teach how to select tasty and low-cost ingredients, stretch them across multiple meals, and use healthy cooking techniques that help participants provide the best nourishment possible to their families.

With the support of the ConAgra Foods Foundation, Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters has more than doubled its capacity − enhancing the program infrastructure, serving families more effectively and better supporting its partners.

Congressional Hunger Center - The CHILD Project

The Washington, DC-based Congressional Hunger Center (CHC) is a unique nonprofit, anti-hunger leadership training organization. A key signature program of CHC is the Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellows Program, which trains selected individuals to become anti-hunger leaders in the United States and abroad.

In 2009, the ConAgra Foods Foundation partnered with CHC to support the Child Hunger Initiative on Learning and Development (CHILD) Project. The Foundation’s grant supports the work of four CHC fellows working to help end child hunger in California, Oregon and Massachusetts. Their particular focus will be on expanding and/or improving federal nutrition programs such as the school breakfast and lunch program, summer food programs, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which was formerly known as the Food Stamp Program.

National Council of La Raza

The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) is the largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States focused on improving opportunities for Hispanic Americans. Through NCLR's Promotores de Salud program, a community-based health initiative, the Foundation's support helps provide culturally sensitive nutrition education programs to help Hispanic families live more healthful lifestyles.

In addition, the Foundation’s funding helps support NCLR's advocacy efforts to enroll more Latinos in federal food assistance programs and build the capacity of field advocates to engage in the national conversation around hunger.