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's Operation Frontline®

We know it takes more than food to fight hunger. It's also about providing the appropriate nutrition education to build skills that will last a lifetime, including selecting and preparing nutritious meals. The ConAgra Foods Foundation is the national sponsor of Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline®, a groundbreaking, chef-led nutrition education program that teaches low-income families how to prepare nutritious and tasty meals on a limited budget.

With the support of the ConAgra Foods Foundation, Share Our Strength® has more than doubled Operation Frontline's capacity, enhancing the program infrastructure, serving families more effectively and better supporting its partners.

Operation Frontline is a program of Share Our Strength®, a national organization dedicated to making sure no child in America grows up hungry. Share Our Strength connects children and their families with the nutritious food they need to live healthy lives. Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry™ campaign—a national effort to end childhood hunger in America by 2105—increases access to effective federal nutrition programs, invests in community organizations fighting hunger, and builds broad coalitions to end hunger at the state level.

In the first year of the partnership with the ConAgra Foods Foundation, Operation Frontline increased participation by 35 percent and increased the number of graduates by 40 percent. More than 70 percent of adult graduates reported improvement in food budgeting practices (an increase of 66 percent over the previous year) and nearly 90 percent of adult graduates reported improvement in cooking, eating or food safety practices (an increase of 84 percent over the previous year).

The ConAgra Foods Foundation shares Share Our Strength’s vision of No Kid Hungry™, which gives the partnership all of the right ingredients to make a tremendous impact.

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.

Locations:

Feeding America®
Web site: www.feedingamerica.org
Address (Headquarters):
35 E. Wacker Drive
Suite 2000
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone (Headquarters): (800) 771-2303
Fax: (312) 263-5626

Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline®
Web site: www.operationfrontline.org
E-mail: info@strength.org
Address: 1730 M Street, N.W
Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20036
Phone (Main): (202) 393-2925
Phone (Toll-free): (800) 969-4767
Fax: (202) 347-5868

Congressional Hunger Center
Web site: www.hungercenter.org
Address: Hall of the States Building
400 North Capitol Street, NW
Suite G100
Washington, D.C. 20001
Phone: (202) 547-7022
Fax: (202) 547-7575

National Council of La Raza (NCLR)
Web site: www.nclr.org
E-mail: comments@nclr.org
Address: Raul Yzaguirre Building
1126 16th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
Phone: (202) 785-1670
Fax: (202) 776-1792