Disrupting Food Insecurity - Tapping data for strategies that tackle the root causes
This dashboard equips counties with data about their food insecurity levels and related risk factors, identifies cross-cutting opportunities for intervention, and groups counties by shared challenges. Dive into your county’s data and explore strategies tailored to your county.
Explore Census Data
Find facts about your community (age, poverty, business and industry, education, etc.).
Texas Public Schools Explorer
This resource provides school level data, allowing users to gain insight into some of the community’s challenges. Key data includes the percentage of children eligible for free and reduced-price lunch.
Healthy Food Access Portal
This portal contains data and information to support the successful planning and implementation of policies, programs, and projects to improve access to healthy foods in low-income communities and communities of color.
Kids Count Data Center
Kids Count Data center gathers data from several sources with the purpose of tracking children’s well-being. They track several indicators including demographics, economic wellbeing, education, family and community, health, and safety.
Membership Guide - HFC Bastrop County
An example of a coalitions guidelines and expectations for coaltion members.
Research & Data
This section of FRAC’s website contains the latest reports and data for all the major federal nutrition programs. Includes a Resource Library, Interactive Data Tools, Best Practices, and Mapping Tools.
SNAP Participation vs. Eligibility by Age and Zip Code
Data for every zip code in Texas on SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) participation and eligibility.
Map the Meal Gap: Food Insecurity in The United States
Search for data about food insecurity across the US by state or county.
CommunityWalk: Mapping Made Easy
CommunityWalk is a website that is dedicated to providing a powerful yet simple and easy to use interface for creating informational, interactive, and engaging maps.
Texas HHSC SNAP Statistics Overview
Brief overview on how to locate Texas Health and Human Services SNAP data.
Baylor Hunger Data Lab
The Hunger Data Lab houses clean, ready-to-use data sets and informative reports to help drive solutions to food insecurity.
Coalition Effectiveness Inventory (CEI)
A diagnostic checklist for coalition staff and key leaders to assess coalition effectiveness.
Community Tool Box - Toolkits
Community Toolbox is a great resource with interactive tools related to community organizing and community development, ranging from creating and maintaining a coalition all the way to sustaining a coalition and everything in-between.
Collective Impact Forum Podcast
From exploring the role of the backbone to expanding community-led data gathering, the Collective Impact Forum podcast shares out resources and stories from the field to support social change-makers.
Alliance to End Hunger Resource Library
This database featuring toolkits, case studies, research, online tools, community plans and other resources generated by the Alliance to End Hunger, their national partners and hunger free community coalitions across the country.