#GiveHealthy would not be possible
- FOUNDING PARTNERS – The core group of organizations that came together to form the #GiveHealthy movement
- NATIONAL PARTNERS – Partners that have lent their national reach and stature to advance the #GiveHealthy mission
- HEALTH PARTNERS – Organizations in support of promoting the benefits of a healthy diet and exercise
- HUNGER PARTNERS – National, regional and local groups concerned with delivering healthy options to the food insecure population
- EDUCATION PARTNERS – Institutions focused on performing the research in support of the merits of a healthier US population
- MEDIA PARTNERS – Media outlets that help to amplify the message of and rally support for the #GiveHealthy mission
- CORPORATE PARTNERS – Companies that support the #GiveHealthy mission of providing healthy options for people who need them
Founding Partners
Partner: Food Tank
Food Tank is focused on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. We spotlight environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable ways of alleviating hunger, obesity, and poverty and create networks of people, organizations, and content to push for food system change.
“We’re thrilled to be part of the #GiveHealthy Food Drive.” -Danielle Nierenberg, President
Partner: Wholesome Wave
Wholesome Wave empowers under-served consumers to make healthier food choices by:
- Increasing affordable access to fresh, local, and regional food
- Increasing the value of food stamps and other nutrition benefits when spent on fruits and vegetables
- Creating market opportunities and improve bottom lines for farmers and grocery stores nationwide
“Affordable, healthy, local food for all!” – Michel Nischan, Founder and CEO
Partner: Why Hunger
WhyHunger is a leader in building the movement to end hunger and poverty by connecting people to nutritious, affordable food and by supporting grassroots solutions that inspire self-reliance and community. WhyHunger aims to put an end the hunger suffered by 49MM Americans
“Bringing healthy food to people through #GiveHealthy makes a great difference.” -Noreen Springsteed, Executive Divector
Partner: Ashley Koff
Ashley Koff, RD brings her Better Nutrition approach to thousands of patients, organizations, and clients. An award-winning nutrition expert, she is a frequent contributor on the Dr. Oz show and other media such as ABC News, Fox News, The New York Times, and the Washington Post.
“I want to help create a better world, and doing my part means helping everyone get and keep their better health.” – Ashley Koff, RD
Partner: Amp Your Good
Amp Your Good developed the #GiveHealthy Digital Food Drive Platform to address limitations of traditional food drives: non-perishable food only, unwanted or inappropriate donations, and lots of moving cans and boxes around.
Combining e-commerce ordering with an efficient network for healthy and fresh food delivery has enabled the #GiveHealthy approach for the modern food drive.
“With out digital food drive platform, people facing food insecurity can now get the food they really need.” – Pat O’Neill, CEO
National Partners
Partner: The Food Trust
Since 1992, The Food Trust has been working to ensure that everyone has access to affordable, nutritious food and information to make healthy decisions.
The Food Trust’s comprehensive approach includes improving food environments and teaching nutrition education in schools; working with corner store owners to increase healthy offerings and helping customers make healthier choices; managing farmers markets in communities that lack access to affordable produce; and encouraging grocery store development in underserved communities.
Partner: AllergyKids Foundation
Founded by author, public speaker and mother of four, Robyn O’Brien, the AllergyKids Foundation’s site officially launched on Mother’s Day 2010 to bring attention to recent changes to the food supply and the dramatic increases in the rates of allergies, asthma, autism and ADHD in the last twenty years.
The AllergyKids Foundation’s goal is to protect the American children from the additives now found in our food supply – additives not used in children’s foods in other developed countries.
“Together, we can achieve the healthy childhoods that our children so deserve.” – Robyn O’Brien, Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer
Partner: Center for Science in the Public Interest
The Center for Science in the Public Interest has been providing advice and advocacy toward a healthier food system since its founding in 1971.
As one of the nation’s top consumer advocates, CSPI will keep fighting for government policies and corporate practices that promote healthy diets, prevent deceptive marketing practices, and ensure that science is used to promote the public good.
Partner: Change Food
Change Food creates programs, events and resources for individuals and groups changing the food system from the ground up.
The New York based organization runs its annual Change Food Fest in September along with other events that raise awareness, promote solutions and provide tools that can educate others.
Partner: Slow Food USA
Slow Food USA inspires individuals and communities to change the world through food that is good, clean and fair for all. Slow Food is a global movement that combines the pleasures of the table with a commitment to the communities, cultures, knowledge, and environment that make this pleasure possible. This July, Slow Food USA welcomes the world to Denver, Colorado for Slow Food Nations, a festival to taste and explore a world of good, clean and fair food for all.
Partner: Curbing Hunger
Curbing Hunger is an organization in central New Jersey dedicated to helping people in Somerset County and surrounding areas. Over the past 21 years, Curbing Hunger has held a regional summer Food Drive that helps fill local food bank shelves during the typically low season for food donations.
An early adopter of the GiveHealthy online food drive platform, Curbing Hunger is ready to raise significant amounts of food again on the platform this summer.
Partner: No Kid Hungry
The No Kid Hungry campaign connects kids in need with nutritious food and teaches their families how to cook healthy, affordable meals. The campaign also engages the public to make ending child hunger a national priority.
Through its Cooking Matters program, the No Kid Hungry campaign educates and empowers low-income families to stretch their food budgets so their kids get healthy meals at home. Cooking Matters participants learn to shop strategically, use nutrition information to make healthier food choices, and cook delicious, affordable meals.
Partner: Broccoli City Festival
Broccoli City is a social enterprise that roots itself in a triple bottom line strategy that focuses on people, planet, and profit. We are working to “redefine the cool” towards people being active and engaged participants in their community. We are creating a culture that celebrates and rewards people who are “getting active” and doing the work to make our communities healthier.
The first Broccoli City Festival was started in 2013 to draw attention for Earth Day, aligning with the brands mission to build thriving urban communities to sustain future generations by mobilizing and educating urban millennials through social impact campaigns and major events. Through our programs we are creating higher standards of sustainable living, environmental sustainability, renewable energy, economic opportunity, and access to high quality food and shelter.
Health Partners
Partner: Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins University
Since 1996 the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) has been addressing some of the most pressing issues in the food system while advancing public health and protecting the environment. As an interdisciplinary academic center within the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the CLF is dedicated to building a healthier, more equitable, and resilient food system. The CLF is a leader in food system and public health research, education, policy, and advocacy and is a trusted scientific resource for advocates, policy makers, educators, and communities.
Partner: Cancer Schmancer
Cancer Schmancer’s mission is to shift the nation’s focus from just searching for a cure to prevention and early detection of cancer in order to save lives. The Cancer Schmancer Movement is a three-prong organization dedicated to Early Detection, Prevention and Policy Change.
Partner: Eating You Alive
Featuring leading medical experts and researchers, Eating You Alive is a feature-length documentary that takes a scientific look at the reasons we’re so sick, who’s responsible for feeding us the wrong information and how we can use whole-food, plant-based nutrition to take control of our health—one bite at a time.
Partner: True Health Initiative
Lifestyle as medicine.
Our vision is a world where all people live long and healthy lives, free of preventable chronic disease.
Our mission is to create a culture free of preventable chronic disease by demonstrating and disseminating the global consensus on the fundamental, evidence-based truths of lifestyle as medicine.
Together we can build a movement around the fundamentals of healthy living, preventing as much as 80 percent of chronic disease and premature death.
Partner: Public Health Institute – Center for Wellness and Nutrition
centerforwellnessandnutrition.org
The Public Health Institute Center for Wellness and Nutrition recognizes the connections among local community environments, poor diet, physical inactivity, food insecurity and obesity.
The Center for Wellness and Nutrition has a diverse portfolio of nutrition, physical activity, obesity prevention and chronic disease prevention projects that reduce the risk of obesity by empowering communities to eat healthier foods, engage in physical activity and create safer environments that foster healthy choices.
Partner: MAV Foundation
MAVF is a fully funded initiative by Meera & Ashok Vasudevan, co-founders of Preferred Brands International, a Connecticut based food company that manufactures and markets TastyBite® and other natural & organic foods.
The Foundation provides grants, collaborates with, and supports an ecosystem of grassroots organizations, non-profits, research institutions, think tanks, independent scholars, artists, and social entrepreneurs who work to permanently move people out of hunger and malnourishment in a manner that is sustainable, self-reliant and healthy.
Hunger Partners
Partner: Rhode Island Food Bank
The Rhode Island Community Food Bank distributes food to people in need through a statewide network of 160 member agencies. These agencies include food pantries, meal sites, shelters, youth programs and senior centers. Each month, 59,000 struggling Rhode Islanders receive food assistance at these agencies. One in three served is a child under the age of 18, and one in five is over the age of 60.
Partner: Neighbor to Neighbor
Now in its 50th year, Neighbor to Neighbor provides food and clothing to the communities in and around Greenwich, Connecticut. The organization and its many volunteers offer assistance with dignity and respect to over 825 local families, serving over 325,000 meals per year.
Partner: MEND – Meeting Essential Needs with Dignity
MEND is the oldest and largest interfaith network of food pantries in Essex County, New Jersey. Since 1980, more than 1.7 million neighbors have passed through our doors to feed their families. In 2019, MEND’s pantries served over 160,000 individuals.
Education Partners
Partner: NYC Food Policy Center at Hunter College
The New York City Food Policy Center at Hunter College develops intersectoral, innovative and evidence-based solutions to preventing diet-related diseases and promoting food security in New York and other cities. The Center works with policy makers, community organizations, advocates and the public to create healthier, more sustainable food environments and to use food to promote community and economic development.
Partner: Center for Science in the Public Interest
The Center for Science in the Public Interest has been providing advice and advocacy toward a healthier food system since its founding in 1971.
As one of the nation’s top consumer advocates, CSPI will keep fighting for government policies and corporate practices that promote healthy diets, prevent deceptive marketing practices, and ensure that science is used to promote the public good.
Partner: Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins University
Since 1996 the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) has been addressing some of the most pressing issues in the food system while advancing public health and protecting the environment. As an interdisciplinary academic center within the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the CLF is dedicated to building a healthier, more equitable, and resilient food system. The CLF is a leader in food system and public health research, education, policy, and advocacy and is a trusted scientific resource for advocates, policy makers, educators, and communities.
Partner: Change Food
Change Food creates programs, events and resources for individuals and groups changing the food system from the ground up.
The New York based organization runs its annual Change Food Fest in September along with other events that raise awareness, promote solutions and provide tools that can educate others.
Partner: Laurie M. Tisch Food Center for Food, Education and Policy
The Tisch Food Center at Teachers College, Columbia University cultivates research about connections between a just, sustainable food system and healthy eating, and translates it into recommendations and resources for educators, policy makers, and community advocates. The Center focuses on schools as critical levers for learning and social change.
Partner: Kids Can Make a Difference
www.kidscanmakeadifference.org
Kids Can Make A Difference® (KIDS), an educational program for middle- and high school students, focuses on the root causes of hunger and poverty, the people most affected, solutions, and how students can help. The major goal is to stimulate the students to take some definite follow-up actions as they begin to realize that one person can make a difference.
In 2010 KIDS became a program of the International Education and Resource Network (iEARN) the world’s largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and youth to use the Internet and other technologies to collaborate on projects that enhance learning and make a difference in the world.
Partner: Oldways
Oldways is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving public health through education about traditional dietary models. Oldways offers programs and recipes based on cultural heritage, the goodness of whole grains, and the enjoyment of nutritious meals. When it comes to food, Oldways believes that the old ways are the best ways.
Media Partners
Partner: Food Tank
Food Tank is focused on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. We spotlight environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable ways of alleviating hunger, obesity, and poverty and create networks of people, organizations, and content to push for food system change.
Corporate Partners
Partner: Organic Valley
Founded 29 years ago, Organic Valley is the nation’s largest farmer-owned organic cooperative, and one of the worlds’ largest organic consumer brands.
We are 1,800 farm families strong, and produce 40% of the organic milk sold in the United States.
Partner: Baldor
Beginning as Balducci’s fruit stand in Greenwich Village in 1946, Baldor has maintained its original promise – curate and deliver the best and freshest foods in the world. We are now one of the largest importers and distributors of fresh produce and specialty foods in Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.
