We support efforts to meet the day to day nutritional needs of vulnerable populations. We prioritize strategic initiatives aimed at addressing the root causes of food insecurity or at developing promising, scalable solutions to alleviating hunger.

• We fund projects that “move the needle,” rather than continuing “business as usual".”

• We aim to help the most vulnerable citizens. To do so, we focus on:

  • Programs serving children, youth, and families in high poverty areas; areas of greatest need include southeast DC and Prince George’s County

  • Effective advocacy that promotes solutions and policies to prevent hunger and food insecurity among the broadest numbers of children and families

  • Programs with the potential to make sustained improvements to the nutritional quality of offerings available to vulnerable children in institutional settings

  • Programs that include educational components about low-cost approaches to securing properly nutritional food

• We fund evidence-based best practices and believe that charitable feeding programs play a critical role in meeting the nutritional needs of vulnerable populations; however, charitable feeding alone is only part of the solution to ending hunger.

• We support the Collective Impact model which seeks to align and coordinate public and private sector resources to prevent hunger and food insecurity by:

  • giving special emphasis to those nonprofits that effectively collaborate with others in the community to collectively address the problem

  • seeking to co-fund worthy endeavors with other public and private sector partners

• We eagerly fund innovation and reward risk takers. We proactively look to work with prospective grantees in program design and implementation, and we are interested in supporting grantees to effectively leverage technology to improve their food security and organizational capacities to distribute healthy food to vulnerable populations.