10: A Guide for Engaging People With Lived/Living Experience
Informed by the 10 Lived/Living Experience Advisory Committee, this guide was written to support poverty-reduction groups to meaningfully engage people with lived/living experience.
Racial Equity Toolkit
This toolkit can function as a springboard to reframe and expand our thinking about not only racial justice issues, but about how policies and actions of all sorts can work to promote the well-being of all people.
Report Finds Discrimination Driving Disparities in Food Insecurity
Study showing that experiences of discrimination are strongly associated with household and childhood hunger.
Report on Food Insecurity & Systemic Inequality
Study linking household food insecurity to lifetime experiences of discrimination.
Talking about Race Toolkit
This toolkit should be used to guide your own messaging ideas and contains critical strategies for your efforts.
Salud America! School Food Pantry Action Pack
This Action Pack is a free online toolkit that provides information, material customization, and technical assistance to help school personnel start a School Food Pantry at their campus or district.
The Advocacy Playbook
The Advocacy Playbook is a toolkit and resource, helping to make the case for why advocacy a good idea and provides guidance on how your coalition or organization can help the cause.
Self-Assessment Workbook (SAW)
Assist a HFC coalition in determining for itself the critical elements for effective organizational management and network functioning and to identify those areas in need of strengthening or further development.
Food Sovereignty
Resources on the intersectionality of racial equity and food security with a healthy planet and climate.
Special Report: Applying Racial Equity to U.S. Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs: SNAP, WIC and Child Nutrition
Comprehensive overview on how to apply a racial equity lens to our work
Getting to Zero Hunger by 2030: Race, Poverty, and Hunger
A background paper exploring strategies to end hunger in the United States by 2030.
Freedom from Hunger - An Achievable Goal for the USA
"To identify solutions to hunger, Congress created the bipartisan National Commission on Hunger “to provide policy recommendations to Congress and the USDA Secretary to more effectively use existing programs and funds of the Department of Agriculture to combat domestic hunger and food insecurity.”
Strategic Planning Report: RGV Food Policy Council
Strategic plan for the RGV Food Policy Council.
CALL TO ACTION: Strengthening Food Security in Texas Children and Seniors through Legislative Action
White paper with a list of recommended policy initiatives to tackle child and senior food insecurity in the Rio Grande Valley area.
The USDA Farm to School Planning Toolkit
This toolkit guides you though questions to consider and helpful resources to reference when starting or growing a farm to school program.
Reset the Table - Transforming the U.S. Food System - Messaging Guide Research Findings
This narrative and messaging guide focuses on the long-term food system transformation while responding to the evolving circumstances presented by the pandemic, economic downturn, and racial justice reckoning being experienced in the United States.