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MDHUNGERSOLUT IONS .ORG
“Maryland Hunger Solutions is a key partner in the Baltimore City
Partnership to End Childhood Hunger. They provide valuable resources,
data and insight and are deeply committed to improving access to
nutritious food for Baltimore City residents.”
— BALTIMORE CITY
MAYOR STEPHANIE RAWLINGS-BLAKE
Maryland Hunger Solutions serves as the voice for Marylanders who struggle
with hunger and poverty on a number of state-wide coalitions, including:
Maryland Hunger Solutions chairs:
• The
Maryland Food Access and
Nutrition Network
(MFANN), a
statewide coalition of federal, state
and local government agencies,
faith and community-based
organizations and advocates
that works to improve access to
nutrition assistance programs and
improve nutrition for low-income
Marylanders. Under Maryland
Hunger Solutions’ leadership,
MFANN launched the annual
statewide anti-hunger conference
noted previously, and it organizes a
large-scale annual outreach event
and regular workshops, webinars,
meetings, and activities with a focus
on meeting the needs of hard-to-
reach populations, including seniors,
Latinos, rural populations, and the
working poor. Maryland Hunger
Solutions ensured that MFANN
incorporates FSP outreach into all
of its events, and it has launched
the first steps toward integrating
public services — including FSP
enrollment — at public libraries.
• The
Farmers’ Market Collaborative
,
a quarterly forum that brings
together government agencies,
non-profit organizations, and
farmers’ market managers to
maximize farmers’ markets’
and stands’ effectiveness as
sources of healthy food for low-
income Baltimore residents. The
Collaborative focuses on building
the capacity of Baltimore-area
farmers’ markets and farm stands
to accept federal nutrition benefits
(see page 19).
Maryland Hunger Solutions serves as a
core anti-hunger advisor to:
• The
Governor’s Partnership to
End Childhood Hunger
, created
in November 2008, a coalition
of agencies and organizations
dedicated to ending childhood
hunger in Maryland by 2015.
• The
Baltimore City Partnership to
End Childhood Hunger
, convened
by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-
Blake in 2012 and modeled after
the Partnership to End Childhood
Hunger in Maryland. This
partnership engages local agencies,
community leaders, elected officials
and other non-profit organizations
in concerted strategies to end
childhood hunger by increasing
participation in the federal nutrition
programs and expanding nutrition
education for low-income residents.
