Feeding kids where they
Live, Learn and Play
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3 A message from Founder and CEO Billy Shore 4 Highlights From 2012 6 Feeding Kids Where They LivE
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13 Feeding Kids Where They Learn 19 Feeding Kids Where They Play 24 A Growing Movement 29 Fundraising by the Numbers 40 Financial overview 42 Share our strength’s board of directors 43 SHARE OUR STRENGTH’S LEADERSHIP COUNCIL 44 Donor ListinG
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A MESSAGE FROM FOUNDER AND CEO BILLY SHORE By connecting kids in need with nutritious food and teaching their families how to cook healthy, affordable meals, the No Kid Hungry campaign surrounds children with healthy food where they live, learn and play. Today, one in five children in the United States doesn’t have the food needed to grow and thrive. Together, we’re changing that. • We’re reaching kids where they live: More than 225,000 individuals learned to cook and shop smarter on a budget through our Cooking Matters courses, tours and educational resources. • We’re reaching kids where they learn: Since 2011, we’ve helped connect kids to more than 28 million additional school breakfasts. • We’re reaching kids where they play: Since 2011 we’ve helped connect kids to more than six million additional free meals during the summer months. None of this would be possible without our supporters. Thousands of people across this country—including individual donors, policy makers, corporate leaders, principals, parents and those running community non-profits—are sharing their strengths every day in the fight to end childhood hunger. For that, we are both grateful and inspired. We know childhood hunger is a solvable problem. We’ve made great strides in 2012, but we still have a long way to go. To achieve our bold goal of ending childhood hunger in this nation, we need to work more closely together than ever before. If we do, we will make No Kid Hungry a reality. Sincerely,
Founder & CEO
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HIGHLIGHTS OF 2012
1 IN 5
ID HUNGRY IS MAKING AN IMP K O N ACT TEAM BIG VICTORIES WORKING WITH LOCAL PARTNERS
U.S. kids doesn’t have consistent access to the food they need to grow & thrive
WE’RE CHANGING THAT
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HELPE E’VE
D CONNECT KIDS TO MOR E
MICHIGAN Served 3,600+ Cooking Matters participants
THAN
LLION ADDITIONAL MEALS I M 4 3 SINCE SUMMER 2011
MARYLAND Secured $1.8 million in additional state funding for school breakfasts
COLORADO Passed breakfast legislation to mandate high-need schools serve breakfast as part of the school day
NORTH CAROLINA
ARKANSAS TEXAS
Served over 1.2 million additional summer meals and school breakfasts
Piloted a waiver for schools to serve summer meals with reduced paperwork that is now available for all states
Served 7.8 million additional school breakfasts
We’re reaching kids where they
LIVE…
225,000 families learned cooking and shopping skills through courses, tours, and other Cooking Matters resources
23,000 low-income families took six-week cooking courses at 1,300 sites in 33 states
45 states provided grocery store tours to over 9,500 families 28 million additional school breakfasts
6 million additional summer meals
Team No Kid Hungry at work:
330,000+ No Kid Hungry pledge takers
500,000+ No Kid Hungry actions taken
No Kid Hungry Center for Best Practices making our most successful strategies available to everyone
&
More than $8.8 million invested in innovative local nonprofits through 1,000+ grants in all 50 states
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Making a Difference Local Nonprofits/Food Banks Governors/Mayors
200,000+
City/State Agencies
social media followers
Culinary Community
97,000+ letters sent to Congress
BRINGING SOLUTIONS TO EVERY COMMUNITY
DIVERSE PARTNERS ARE
Federal Agencies Corporate Leaders Engaged Citizens Philanthropists
COLLECTIVE IMPAC R U O T
34 MILLION ADDITIONAL MEALS SERVED
LILY, HER MOM & NO KID HUNGRY Children don’t suffer from hunger because we lack food.
Meet Lily and her mother, and learn how the No Kid Hungry campaign is helping families like theirs all across the country.
As a nation, we have plenty. The problem is barriers that keep children from accessing this food.
Watch the Telly Award-winning video
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s the U.S. economy slowly recovers, a record number of Americans remain on SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). Many of these families
cannot put enough food on the table to feed their kids. And while low-income families are cooking at home, they struggle to afford healthy meals. In 2012, the No Kid Hungry campaign released an eye-opening national survey of low-income families, shedding light on how families at risk of hunger shop for and cook their family dinners. It’s Dinnertime, generously supported by the ConAgra Foods Foundation, found that:
8 out of 10 low-income families
85% of low-income families
make dinner at home at
say that eating healthy is
least 5 times a week
important to their families
Cost is perceived as the primary barrier between low-income families and making healthy meals
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ow-income mothers like Lareese Cathey from Grasonville, Maryland, want to provide healthy food
for their kids. Lareese is a recent dental assistant program graduate and a single mother of two who periodically relies on SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), WIC and school meals to help feed her family. Lareese struggled to stretch her food dollars across a full month. Lareese signed up for No Kid Hungry’s six-week Cooking Matters course. When we spoke to her months after the course ended, she told us she was now able to stretch her food dollars an additional two weeks, making them last the entire month. Before the program, she would buy about two fruit and vegetable items with her $6 WIC check. Now, after having learned to compare the unit prices of groceries and consider frozen and canned fruit as alternatives to fresh, she’s able to stretch that $6 to buy two packages of frozen fruit, two canned fruits and some applesauce. Through Cooking Matters, the No Kid Hungry campaign is helping families like Lareese’s make the most of their food budgets, helping them to end hunger at home.
COOKING MATTERS GRADUATE PROFILE:
The Cathey Family
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FEEDING CHILDREN WHERE THEY LIVE, LEARN, PLAY
In 2012, Cooking Matters reached more than 225,000 families through courses, tours, and other resources, equipping them with essential cooking and shopping skills. Cooking Matters was nationally sponsored by the Walmart Foundation and ConAgra Foods Foundation.
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FEEDING CHILDREN WHERE THEY LIVE, LEARN, PLAY
THE IMPACT OF COOKING MATTERS The No Kid Hungry campaign is teaching families how to cook healthy, affordable meals through Cooking Matters. With the help of volunteer culinary and nutrition experts, families learn to shop smarter, make healthier food choices, and cook delicious meals. In 2012, Cooking Matters reached a major milestone: since the program’s start, the six-week courses have reached more than 120,000 participants.
Cooking Matters courses were held at 1,300 sites across the country, including schools, Head Start centers and WIC clinics
WHY
COOKING MATTERS Cooking Matters participants and volunteers explain why cooking matters to them.
Courses or tours were held in 45 states plus Washington, D.C.
An additional 192,000 participants were reached through Cooking Matters educational materials
WATCH THE VIDEO
Cooking Matters at the Store – our innovative grocery store tours – were held in 45 states, and 9,500 people participated in 1,400 tours at 760 grocery stores across the country
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n 2012 we met the Hanno family from the Fort Carson Army base in Colorado Springs. Dad Erik, a Purple Heart
recipient, just returned from his second tour in Afghanistan. He’s now a part-time student working on a criminal justice degree. Mom Stacy works part-time and is in night school, training to be a nurse. They have two young girls, Kailey (age 4) and Tegan (age 1). With both parents in school, money is tight. The family receives WIC benefits to help get by. Stacy spends about an hour and a half every week scanning the grocery circulars and clipping coupons. “I shop when stuff is really cheap,” she says. “We saved money to buy a deep freezer so that I can store meat, my most expensive items.” Stacy took a Cooking Matters course to learn how to get the most from her federal benefits. She now carefully plans their grocery shopping trips with weekly coupons and deals. She shared with us how the class taught her skills to cook healthier meals while saving money. She explains, “I went in there with a lot of knowledge, but I came out with a lot as well... I think the most important thing I got out of it is knowing the better choice.”
COOKING MATTERS GRADUATE PROFILE:
The HANNO Family
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FEEDING CHILDREN WHERE THEY LIVE, LEARN, PLAY
“The Hannos cut their
NBC Nightly News features Cooking Matters graduates, including Lareese Cathey and the Hanno Family.
grocery bill in half, but more importantly they have learned lifelong lessons.” NBC Nightly News’ Miguel Almaguer
WATCH THE VIDEO
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hen a child is hungry, she can’t concentrate in school. Each morning, too many of our nation’s kids are starting the school day with empty
stomachs. Share Our Strength’s 2012 survey of teachers highlighted how hunger impedes a child’s ability to learn, revealing that 3 out of 5 K-8 public school teachers say they regularly see students come to school hungry.
Three prevalent consequences of hunger in schools:
inability to concentrate
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headaches & stomachaches
poor academic performance
FEEDING CHILDREN WHERE THEY LIVE, LEARN, PLAY
While 21 million kids get free and reduced-price lunch... only 11 million receive free or reduced-price school breakfast MORE THAN 10 million kids ARE MISSING OUT ON A FREE OR REDUCED-PRICE BREAKFAST
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FEEDING CHILDREN WHERE THEY LIVE, LEARN, PLAY
We’re helping more kids start the day with breakfast The No Kid Hungry campaign is working with schools across the country to expand access to school breakfast by moving it from the cafeteria to the classroom, making it part of the school day.
The Results: 28 million additional school breakfasts Added 180,000 additional kids to school breakfast programs
THE IMPORTANCE OF
SCHOOL BREAKFAST Principal Prim knew students were showing up to school hungry, so she decided to do something about it.
The greatest number kids starting the day with breakfast is achieved by implementing innovative breakfast models that serve breakfast as part of the school day. To accomplish this, we’re partnering with school districts that have a high percentage of students who qualify for free and reduced-price meals to bring breakfast into the classroom. Another successful tactic we’ve employed is pursuing school breakfast legislation, which mandates that schools with a large percentage of lowincome students expand school breakfast. For example, in Maryland, the No Kid Hungry campaign and our supporters advocated for additional state funding for breakfast. As a result of this advocacy, increased funding, and other efforts more than 33,000 Maryland kids have been added to the school breakfast program since 2010. In 2013, we’re pursuing breakfast legislation in a number of states, including Colorado.
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Watch the Telly Award-winning video
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os Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a partner of the Los Angeles No Kid Hungry campaign,
announced in early 2012 that the L.A. Unified School District would make breakfast a part of the school day for every child so that all students could start the day ready to learn. The Los Angeles No Kid Hungry campaign and the California Food Policy Advocates are working closely with the Los Angeles Fund for Public Education to support their work to implement breakfast in the classroom in every school in the district over the next three years.
This change in delivery is expected to impact over
400,000 kids in need.
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can’t think, don’t care “It was early in the morning,
Principal McElhaney from Maryland shares a powerful encounter with one of his students.
I was hungry, I just couldn’t think. So I put down ‘I don’t care’.” A STUDENT OF PRINCIPAL MCELHANEY’S
WATCH THE VIDEO
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or children whose families struggle to make ends meet, school meals provide a safety net, ensuring that their kids are getting nutritious
meals each school day. But when school is out of session, in the evenings, on weekends and especially in the summer, these kids find themselves uncertain about where and when they’ll be able to eat.
21 million kids receive free or reduced-price school lunch
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But only 3 million kids receive free summer meals
FEEDING CHILDREN WHERE THEY LIVE, LEARN, PLAY
How We’re Feeding Kids Where They Play Through investments in the No Kid Hungry network, we’re supporting hundreds of afterschool and summer meals programs all across the country. In the summer, we’re helping recruit and retain new summer meals sites, as well as helping existing sites serve more kids. Here’s what’s been accomplished.
GETTING THE WORD OUT IN MARYLAND THE NO KID HUNGRY CAMPAIGN HELPS RAISE AWARENESS OF LOCALLY AVAILABLE FREE SUMMER MEALS IN COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THIS PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM BALTIMORE FEATURES ADAM JONES OF THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES.
6 million additional summer meals served While nationwide participation in summer meals programs decreased, No Kid Hungry campaign states saw a dramatic increase in meals.
WATCH THE VIDEO
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ummer is one of the most challenging times to ensure that kids struggling with hunger are eating. Kids are geographically scattered
in the summer and it’s difficult to reach them en masse, which presents a major challenge for the rapid expansion of summer meals. The No Kid Hungry campaign is continually piloting new tactics that help us meet that challenge.
Food Trucks with a Mission Mobile meals meet kids where they are in the summer, such as parks, libraries, public pools, and housing complexes.
Eliminating Red Tape We’re working with the United States Department of Agriculture to introduce administrative innovations that allow schools to serve summer meals with reduced paperwork. Our No Kid Hungry campaign in North Carolina successfully piloted the program in 2012; it will expand nationally in summer 2013.
text to Find Summer Meals We introduced a “Text to Find a Summer Meals Site Near You” pilot program in summer 2012. In the first year, the program received 24,000 texts nationwide requesting information. You can try it out: text FOOD to 877-877 to find a site near you.
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“We have these lunches in the park, and it’s basically our only meal.” – Adrienne, a child in New Mexico who relies on a summer meals site
FEEDING CHILDREN WHERE THEY LIVE, LEARN, PLAY
HOW SUMMER MEALS HELP Two families who find themselves struggling to provide enough food for their kids in the summer turn to the summer meals program for help.
“The summer meals program … is [helping] us survive.” MARRISA CHAVEZ, MOM
WATCH THE VIDEO
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We’re Bringing Solutions to Every Community As our work expands and evolves, we’re developing and sharing proven solutions for effectively connecting kids with food in their communities. We’re making our most successful strategies available to everyone, for free, through the No Kid Hungry Center for Best Practices. In doing this, we aim to help others replicate our success. In 2012, resources from the Center were accessed more than 33,000 times online by individuals in all 50 states; 2,000 hard copies of reports were distributed; and more than 1,000 people attended educational webinars and events that feature the Center.
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A GROWING MOVEMENT
Investments in the No Kid Hungry Network We’re investing in innovative, local nonprofits which are part of the No Kid Hungry network, helping them to scale and expand their work.
“I want to thank Share Our Strength for your support of Preble Street’s work to
In 2012 we invested more than 1,000 grants in organizations in all 50 states totaling more than $8.8 million.
open new summer meals sites in Cumberland County. We are so grateful to you for partnering with us to bring an end to the tragedy of hunger in our communities.” - Preble Street, Portland, Maine
No Kid Hungry Supporters Make a Huge Impact Our supporters—Team No Kid Hungry—helped us move our work forward in 2012 by giving their time and voices to act as advocates for children facing hunger. Some milestones:
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300,000+
97,000+
Individuals have joined Team No Kid Hungry
Letters sent to Congress on behalf of kids facing hunger
200,000+
500,000+
Social media followers
Actions taken on NoKidHungry.org
A GROWING MOVEMENT
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o Kid Hungry national spokesperson Jeff Bridges joined us at both the Democratic
and Republican 2012 presidential nominating conventions to raise awareness of childhood hunger with our nation’s leaders and make sure that America’s most vulnerable children would not be forgotten after the elections. Hunger is a bipartisan problem with a bipartisan solution; Jeff helped spread the No Kid Hungry message to influential policy-makers and media personalities.
“If another country were doing this to our children, we’d be at war.”
The dude
hits the road for no kid hungry
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food network airs hunger hits home An hour-long documentary airing during primetime, Hunger Hits Home was an unprecedented effort by our partners at Food Network to raise awareness and funds to support the No Kid Hungry strategy to end childhood hunger. The documentary raised more than $200,000 in 2012 and brought thousands of new supporters into our community.
hunger hits home
what viewers had to say My six year old wants to know what he can do to help! Love it! #HungerHitsHome. - @rowamy My 13 yr-old, @ecssoccer, and I are watching #hungerhitshome. Proud that she cares. Prouder that she & I have decided to do something @ it. - @sidmanlaw No show on @FoodNetwork ever touches me like this one has #HungerHitsHome - @musicjunkie727
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WATCH THE VIDEO
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“Knowing that there are children in this country going hungry inspired me. Thank you for allowing me to help. Sometimes you just don’t know where to begin.” - Individual donor
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FUNDRAISING BY THE NUMBERS
INDIVIDUAL DONORS 19,000+
$4.3M
donors
in revenue
39,000+
35%
gifts
increase in revenue
Why do individuals support No Kid Hungry? Our donors in their own words: “The No Kid Hungry strategy has demonstrated an incredible effectiveness at making a significant difference in the lives of children—certainly enabling them to be more effective in school and to enjoy better health.” “I grew up in a poor family and know what hunger feels like. It’s a downright crime that so many go hungry in America so I’m doing my part to help when I can, even if I wish I could do more.” “It breaks my heart to know so many kids are suffering & I’m grateful for this organization and proud to be a part of it.”
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FUNDRAISING BY THE NUMBERS
CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION SUPPORT Our corporate and foundation partners helped exponentially further our work in 2012. These partners, from diverse sectors, shared their strengths through programmatic investments, campaign sponsorships, cause marketing promotions, advocacy and volunteerism.
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FUNDRAISING BY THE NUMBERS
DINE OUT FOR NO KID HUNGRY
8,294
49%
$5.9M
restaurants
increase in restaurant participation
in revenue
Every September, thousands of restaurants and millions of consumers band together to help end childhood hunger. Restaurants find creative ways to raise funds that make the most sense for their business. These promotions are diverse and creative. A few examples include selling coupons, asking customers to round up their bill, and
Engaged Restaurants in all 50 States, plus D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam
doing special menu promotions—all to benefit the No Kid Hungry campaign.
top 3
CALIFORNIA
fundraising states
$543,000
TEXAS
$665,000
FLORIDA
$339,000
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FUNDRAISING BY THE NUMBERS
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FUNDRAISING BY THE NUMBERS
TASTE OF THE NATION
NO KID HUNGRY DINNERS
37 events
19 dinners
20,000+ guests
2,000+ guests
$4M
$2.1M
in revenue
in revenue
Chefs and mixologists donate their time, talent and passion to raise critical funds to support the No Kid Hungry campaign through Taste of the Nation and
Engaged
No Kid Hungry dinners.
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1,000+
1,000+
605
chefs/ mixologists/ sommeliers/ restaurants
volunteers
Local Sponsors
FUNDRAISING BY THE NUMBERS
BAKE SALE FOR NO KID HUNGRY Flour, Sugar, Eggs and You: A Recipe to End Childhood Hunger
$1.4M
2,259 bake sale registrations
in revenue
112,000+
1,201
engaged bake sale hosts, bakers and buyers
cities
200,000+
103,000+
baked goods sold
customers
Bake sales took place in 50 states, plus Guam and Puerto Rico More than 275 million media impressions via earned and donated media Total raised to date by bake sales supporting No Kid Hungry:
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nearly $9.6 million
FUNDRAISING BY THE NUMBERS
PERSONAL FUNDRAISERS In 2012, we gave our online community tools to create their own
NO KID HUNGRY 2 YOUTH PROGRAM
fundraisers for No Kid Hungry. In the first few months of the program:
Kids helping kids by supporting No Kid Hungry
$60,000 in revenue
7,582
miles run for No Kid Hungry
312
registrations
69
completed fundraisers
15
birthdays dedicated to No Kid Hungry
Nearly
$80,000 in revenue Engaged:
243
schools
50,000+ youth
40,000+
actions taken via NoKidHungry2.org
And we’re just getting started...
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FUNDRAISING BY THE NUMBERS
The 2012 event by the numbers
Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival presented by FOOD & WINE
100% of the net proceeds of the Festival benefit Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign and Food Bank For New York City.
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FUNDRAISING BY THE NUMBERS
A LOOK AHEAD Despite the great strides we’ve made this year in connecting kids with food, there’s still work to be done to make No Kid Hungry a reality. We must scale our work to reach even more kids. We must find new solutions to difficult obstacles, like how to best reach the highest number of kids during the summer. And we must continue to speak up for kids without enough food, because an America without childhood hunger is not only possible, it’s already within our reach. With your support, we’ll get there. We’ll end childhood hunger in America.
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At Share Our Strength, we’re focused on maximizing every donation to help the most kids possible. In fiscal year 2012, Share Our Strength had total operating expenses (excluding in-kind and the New York City Wine & Food Festival) of $31.1 million in pursuit of ending childhood hunger in America. Approximately 71%—$22.1 million—of these expenses were invested in the No Kid Hungry strategy to feed kids where they live, learn and play. These investments, which led to more than 34 million additional meals being served and other major 2012 milestones recapped in this report, are made possible thanks to judicious investments in fundraising, which make up 25% of our expenses. In order to end childhood hunger in this country, solutions need to be scaled quickly, and our investments in fundraising reflect the urgent need to expand our work to reach as many kids as quickly as possible. The remaining 4% of expenses cover costs such as financial management, human resources and technology. More information about Share Our Strength’s financials is available at NoKidHungry.org/Financials.
71% PROGRAM COSTS $22.1 Million 25% FUNDRAISING $7.7 Million 4% MANAGEMENT & GENERAL COSTS $1.3 Million
* Excludes New York City Wine & Food Festival proceeds. Share Our Strength consolidates the Festival’s full financials but is only a co-beneficiary of the event and has a limited role in its operations. See page 2 of Schedule O in our Form 990 for a full overview.
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FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
SHARE OUR STRENGTH, INC. STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION Share Our Strength’s auditors have expressed an unqualified opinion on our financial statements. These statements will help interested supporters as they review the financial results and
FY 2012
CURRENT ASSETS Cash and Cash Equivalencies
$ 3,759,739
Accounts receivable, net
$ 38,947
Grants and contributions receivable, net
$ 10,276,810
Investments in subsidiary
$ 819,714
Prepaid expenses and other assets
$ 600,987
Property and Equipment, net
$ 553,090
TOTAL ASSETS
$ 16,049,287
strong financial condition of our organization. In order to access the complete set of financial statements and notes, please visit NoKidHungry.org/Financials.
LIABILITIES Accounts payable and accrued expenses
$ 2,614,341
Grants payable
$ 747,787
Deferred revenue
$ 392,827
Deferred rent and leasehold incentives
$ 116,426
TOTAL LIABILITIES
$ 3,871,381
NET ASSETS
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Unrestricted
$ 2,413,590
Temporarily restricted
$ 9,764,316
TOTAL NET ASSETS
$ 12,177,906
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
$ 16,049,287
FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Sid Abrams
Peter Gold
Danny Meyer
Principal
President
CEO
Deloitte Consulting LLP
The Gold Group, First Book
Union Square Hospitality Group
James L. Bareuther
Maria Gomez
Mary Sue Milliken
Chairman
President & CEO
Co-Chef & Owner
Former Distilled Spirits Council of the United States
Mary’s Center for Maternal and Child Care
Border Grill
Jim Berrien
Michael Gordon
Donna S. Morea
Chief Revenue Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chairman & CEO
Bentley & Farrell
Yodle
Adesso Group, LLC
Neil Braun
Bob Greenstein
Mark Rodriguez
Dean of the Lubin School of Business
Director
Chief Executive Officer
Pace University
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Hickory Farms
Kathy Bushkin Calvin
Will Kanteres
Scott Schoen
Chief Executive Officer
President
Chief Executive Officer
United Nations Foundation
Kanteres Real Estate
Baylon Capital Partners, L.P.
Joni Doolin
Roz Mallet
Bill Shore
CEO & Founder
CEO/President
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
People Report
Phase Next Hospitality
Share Our Strength
Wally Doolin
Mike McCurry
Charles Bernstein
Founder & Managing Principal
Partner
Board Member Emeritus
BlackBoxIntelligence
Public Strategies Washington, Inc.
Ken Pelletier Technologist/Designer and Entrepreneur
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chairman Jeff Swartz
Brooke Johnson
Su-Lin Nichols
former President & CEO, Timberland
President, Food Network
Director, Brunswick Group
Honorary Member
Michael Kempner
Sally Robling
President and Chief Executive Officer of MWW Group
former President, Birds Eye
David Kirchhoff
CEO, Hickory Farms
Jeff Bridges National Spokesperson, Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry Campaign and Founder, End Hunger Network
Members
former President & CEO, Weight Watchers
Karen Ansara
Sandra Lee
Ansara Family Fund
Kate Atwood
New York Times bestselling author, Editor-in-Chief, Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade, Food Network Star
Mark Rodriguez Richard Russo author
Scott Schoen Vice Chairman Emeritus, Thomas H. Lee Partners
Executive Director, Arby’s Foundation
Winnie Lerner
Jim Bareuther
Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, Ralph Lauren
Doug Shaw
Genevieve Lynch
Rob Shepardson
Kenbe Foundation and Mulberry & Vine
Founding Partner, SS&K
Mike McCurry
Jay Snyder
Partner, Public Strategies Washington
Principal, HBJ Investments LLC
Mike Medavoy
Robert Stern
Chairman, Phoenix Pictures
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Sodexo Inc. and President, Sodexo Foundation
Former Chairman, Distilled Spirits Council of the United States
Ray Blanchette CEO, Joe’s Crab Shack
Chef John Currence City Grocery Restaurant Group
Tom Freedman President, Freedman Consulting
Sally Ganem First Lady of Nebraska
Daryl Gormley
Danny Meyer CEO, Union Square Hospitality Group
Mary Sue Milliken Co-Chef & Owner, Border Grill
Group VP, Grande Cheese
Marc Murphy
Jack Griffin
Chef + Owner, Benchmarc Restaurants and Benchmarc Events
Founder and President of Empirical Strategic Advisors
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M. S. Walker, Inc
Andy Walter Co-founder, Steamboat Foundation
Miki Woodard President JCP Cares, VP of Philanthropy JCP
Nancy Zirkin Executive Vice President, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
CORE PARTNERS
Le Creuset
The Capital Grille
ConAgra Foods Foundation
National Basketball Association
The Colorado Health Foundation
Food Network
ONEHOPE Wine
ConAgra Foods Foundation
Walmart Foundation
OpenTable, Inc.
Corner Bakery Cafe
Participant Media
Deloitte*
NO KID HUNGRY PARTNERS
Restaurants Unlimited, Inc.
Denny’s
ACH Food Companies / Fleischmann’s Yeast / Karo
Romano’s Macaroni Grill
Domino Sugar and C&H Sugar
American Express Company
SCA Professional Hygiene
Duncan Hines
Arby’s Foundation
Sodexo Foundation
Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival
Birds Eye
Stephen Joseph, Inc.
Hickory Farms
C&S Wholesale Grocers
Sysco Corporation
Meredith Corporation / Family Circle*
The Capital Grille
Tastefully Simple, Inc.
Penton Media, Inc.*
Cavit Collection Wines (Palm Bay International)
Ted’s Montana Grill
Participant Media
CGI Group, Inc.
Walmart Foundation
Romano’s Macaroni Grill
ConAgra Foods Foundation
Weight Watchers International, Inc.
Sodexo Foundation
Corner Bakery Cafe
Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
Southern Wine and Spirits
Deloitte
Sysco Corporation
Denny’s
$1 MILLION PLUS
Tastefully Simple, Inc.
Domino Sugar and C&H Sugar
Arby’s Foundation
Weight Watchers International, Inc.
Duncan Hines
Clear Channel Communities*
Emmi Roth
Food Network*
Family Circle
Ignite Restaurant Group
Food Network
jcpenney
Hickory Farms
Walmart Foundation
Hillshire Farms
*These supporters provided cash and/or in-kind and pro-bono support.
$100,000 -$249,999 ACH Food Companies / Fleischmann’s Yeast / Karo
Ignite Restaurant Group
$250,000 - $999,999
AmeriCorps
jcpenney
Anonymous
Birds Eye
Jimmy Dean
American Express Company
Bruegger’s Bagel Bakery
The Land of Nod
C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc.
Cavit Collection Wines (Palm Bay International)
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CGI Group, Inc.
Magellan Health Services
Audrey and Danny Meyer
Chicago Metallic
National Cooperative Grocers Association
Donna Morea
The Conde Nast Publications Inc. / Bon Appetit
Nestle Waters International
National Distribution Company
Co-op Stronger Together
Howard and Patsy Norton
New Balance Foundation
Emmi Roth
Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
ONEHOPE Wine
Hillshire Farms
The William Penn Foundation
Pacific Drilling Services
The Irving Harris Foundation
Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers
Papa John’s USA
Jimmy Dean
Salomon Family Foundation
Ken Pelletier
La Madeleine
Scott A. Schoen
Prime Wine and Spirits
Le Creuset
Jeff Shames
Pritzker Early Childhood Foundation
Genevieve and Robert Lynch
Solo Foods
Pulte Homes
National Basketball Association
David and Dianne Stern
Quality Wine & Spirits, Inc.
Open Table, Inc.
Which Wich
Jeanne and Steve Robinson
Park Avenue Foundation
Whole Foods Market, Inc.
Sizzler USA Inc.
Restaurants Unlimited, Inc.
Sonoma-Cutrer
Sara Lee
$25,000 - $49,999
The Fredric E. Steck Family Foundation
SCA Professional Hygiene
Jeffrey J. Abrams and Kathleen McGrath
Mari and Jeff Stein
Shake Shack Enterprises LLC
Alluvia at The Cheetah
Supervalu Foundation
Spitzer Family Foundation
Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc.
Meadowood Napa Valley
Stephen Joseph, Inc.
Creative Artists Agency Foundation
Laurie M. Tisch Foundation
Ted’s Montana Grill
CT Creative Fund
Togo’s
University of Massachusetts
Joseph Drown Foundation
James Toth
Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
Ecolab
Trefler Fund
The Yum-o! Organization, Inc.
Educational Foundation of the VA Chamber of
Turner Foundation
Commerce
Ultimate Distributors
$50,000 - $99,999
Empire Distributors, Inc.
United Distributors
Katherine and David Bradley
Fenwick & West LLP
Vivaldi Partners
Brown-Forman Corporation
Jeffrey and Nancy Gallups
Wells Fargo Regional Foundation
CB2
General Motors LLC
Marsha Williams
The Coca-Cola Foundation
Georgia Crown Distributing Company
Nancy and Harold Zirkin
eBay Giving Works
Great American Restaurants
ZWILLING J.A. HENCKELS, Inc.
William H. and Leonora K. Hegamyer Family
Gisela Hogan Charitable Foundation
Foundation
Jack in the Box Inc.
$10,000 - $24,999
The Land of Nod
Kellogg’s
Anonymous
L’Oreal
The Barrie Landry Charitable Foundation
Sidney and Miriam Abrams
Lucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que Fund
McAlister’s Deli
Leigh Abramson and Carrie Culp Abramson
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ABRH, LLC
Bill Dodge Auto Group
Lucy and Kevin Hogan
Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute
Stephanie Dodson
Scott Hudgens Family Foundation
Pamela Saunders Albin and David Albin
Dry Creek Kitchens
Idaho Potato Commission
Amrest Applebee’s
Leslie B. Durst
IF Hummingbird Foundation Inc.
American Fundraising Auctions, Inc.
Duvel Moortgat USA, Ltd.
The IFF Foundation Inc.
American Pistachio Growers
eBay Inc.
Il Fornaio
American Roland Food Corporation
ES Foods
Innocean Worldwide Americas
Karen Keating Ansara and James Ansara
Feast Portland
Stephanie Izard
Associated Grocers of New England, Inc.
Dr. Marla Felcher and Dr. Max H. Bazerman
Elizabeth and Michael Jones
Tommy Bagwell
Susan Feniger’s Street
The Journey Fund
Bay State Savings Bank
James K. Finkel
Michael Keating
The Susan and Gerald Bereika Family Foundation
Elizabeth W. Floor
Kindle Life, Inc.
Melissa and Dan Berger
Flour Bakery and Cafe
Eliza Kraft Olander
Jim Berk
Food & Wine Magazine
L.A. & S.F. Specialty
Aneel Bhusri
The Food Group
Lactalis Food Service
Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
Roxanne H. Frank
John and Cindy Lee Family Foundation
Bloomspot, Inc.
Kay and Brent Franks
Legal Sea Foods
Blue Cross Blue Shield - Massachusetts
Fulton Street Brewery LLC
Lettuce Entertain You
BNY Mellon Center
Gas South
Judson Linville
Teri and Wayne Bonomo
Golden Corral Corporation
Listwin Family Foundation
Buffet Partners, LP
Goldring Family Foundation
Louisiana Seafood Promotions
Cacique Foundation
Karen and Michael Gordon
Luby’s Fuddruckers Restaurants, LLC
Captain D’s
Greig Seafood
M&T Investment Group
Jim Caruso
Grubhub Inc.
Maine Magazine
Charlie’s Produce, a division of Triple B Corporation
Jill and Jonas Gyllensvaan
Mako Foundation
City of New Orleans - Edward Wisner Donation Fund
Bill Hagood
The Marcus Foundation
Coca Cola North America
The Hain Celestial Group, Inc.
Margaritaville Enterprises, LLC
Joseph and Kelly Coffey
Lynne and Howard Halpern
William A. Marko
Mary Louise and Bruce Cohen
Halperns’ Steak & Seafood Company
Marriott International/Marriott Business Services
Cook Family Charitable Trust
Hannaford Supermarkets
Martignetti Companies of New Hampshire, Inc.
Peter Corry
Michelle and Todd Hannon
Lisa and Todd McGowan
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef
The Stanley E. Hanson Foundation
Mellow Mushroom Marketing
Cultural Care Au Pair
Harman Family Foundation
RJ Melman
Luciana Damon
Hermione Foundation
Amy and Alan Meltzer
Cora & John H. Davis Foundation
Hilton Hotels Corporation
The Howard and Jennifer Michaels Family Foundation
Disney Worldwide Services, Inc.
HMA
Ellen and Steve Miller
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DONOR LISTING
Mary Sue Milliken
TW Garner Food Company
Patricia S. Bellinger and Richard Balzer
Michael E. Mills
Kathleen and Tony Tait
Seth and Karen Bixby Daugherty
Mobile Giving Foundation
Take-Two Interactive
Louie Bottega
Lori R. Mody
Sara and Eric Tangen
Neil Braun and Anne C. Flick
Montgomery & Co, LLC
Target Enterprises
Bright House Networks
The Morningstar Foundation
Mitsuyo Terashima
Richard and Cheryl Bruun
Campbell Murphy
Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
California Fig Advisory Board
National Pork Board
Treasury Wine Estates
California Olive Ranch
National Restaurant Association
Triangle Manufacturing Co., Inc.
David Canzoneri
Robert Nawrot
Trinet HR Corporation
Kirsten Poma Carbon Family Foundation
New Seasons Market
Unilever Food Solutions
Carita Foundation, Inc.
New Signature
Unilever US Inc.
Carlsmith Ball LLP
O’Charley’s
US Foodservice
Steve Carlson
Paradise Restaurant Group, LLC
William and Cindy Voyles
Castelnau Foundation
Bill and Chris Peirson
Trish and George Vradenburg
Centennial Toyota
The Perfect Puree of Napa Valley
Diana and Christopher Walsh
Central Market
Piedmont Natural Gas Company
Warren Family Foundation
China Grill Management
Heather M. Podesta
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
Jeffrey Chodorow
Sara Raber
Wildflower Bread Company
The Cigna Foundation
Rainier Fruit Company
William Grant & Sons, USA
Kelly and Joseph Coffey
Regions Bank
Winthrop Realty Partners
Columbia Marketing International Corp
Root Cause Institute, Inc.
Wood Ranch BBQ & Grill
Community First Foundation
Rotonda Foundation
Corner Bar Partners One LLC
Ruffwood Foundation
$5,000 - $9,999
Credit Agricole
S.T. Management Group, Inc.
Anonymous (2)
Randi Cutler
Seattle Fish Company
A & D Services, Inc.
CVC Capital Partners Advisory (U.S.), Inc.
Michael Senter
Ahold Financial Services
Dec-Tam Corporation
Marcia and Denny Seremet
Michael Ambrosino
The Degnan Family Foundation, Inc.
Phyllis and Ellis Shamoon
Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation
Bobby DeMasco
Shari’s
Apollo Group, Inc.
The Denver Foundation
Sharma Family Fund
Appleton Chiropractic Center, Inc.
Sharon and Paul Devereux
Silicon Valley Bank
Arrowhead Plastic Surgeons, Inc.
Orrin Devinsky
Stairway Fund
Auger Building Company
Jerry S. Dietz
Linda and Neal Strohmeyer
Jamie Balhon
Dignity Memorial
Sweet Street Desserts
Baylor University
Diana and Dan Dooley
SWS Charitable Foundation, Inc.
BB&T
Double S Foods, LLC
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DONOR LISTING
Elizabeth & Richard Dubin Foundation
Daniel K. Hart
Debra and Michael McCurry
E & J Gallo Winery
The Harvey-McNairy Foundation Inc.
Walter McFarlane
Earth2 Edibles
Hawaiian Airlines
McGuireWoods Consulting LLC
Ian and Holli Easton
Hazen and Sawyer
Louise McIlhenny and Hugh C. Riddleberger
John D. Edelman
The Headlands Foundation
George and Ginair McKerrow
Mark D. Ein
Heaven Hill Distilleries
Meat & Livestock Australia
Elephant Bar Restaurant
Thomas Henderson
Meier Family Foundation
Enterprise Software Deployment, LLC
Laura Purcell Herbert Family Foundation
Martha Melman
Eos Foundation
Marten S. Hoekstra
The Meltzer Group
Epstein, Becker & Green, PC
Philip Holloway
Mentor Worldwide LLC
Aura Espinoza
Honolulu Magazine
William and Kathleen Mercer
Al and Mary Evans Family Foundation
HWHMF - IM
Mercer Cutlery
Lise Evans
IKDH Foundation
Earl H. Miller
Luke Evnin
Sarah Inskeep
Eileen and Douglas Miller
First Hospitality Group, Inc.
Jefferson University Hospitals
Miller-Furst Family Trust
Keith Flaum and Nancy Lieberman
Sandy and Kay Jenkins
Fredric Mintz
Elisabeth Fontenelli
Rosemarie and Steve Johnson
MonkeyMedia.net
Food Link
Jonathan Club
Alecia Moore
Forbco Management Corporation
KB Fund
MWW Group LLC
Ford Motor Company
Kingston Healthcare Company, LLC
National Christian Foundation, Houston
Foxwoods Resort Casino
Ethel Klein and Edward Krugman
Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky
FreshPoint Dallas
David Korostoff
Newell Rubbermaid
Betsy Gamble
Kurtzman Family Foundation
Michael Newhouse
Dan Garrison
Michael Lazar and Sharon Fischman
North Texas Food Bank
Gavish Real Estate
Legacy Funeral Holdings, LLC
Hal Nowak
Theresa Gendron
Robert and Elizabeth Legnini
Nutter, McClennen, & Fish LLP
The Russell and Beverly Ginn Fund
Liberty Mutual Group Inc.
The David O’Connor Trust
The William J. J. Gordon Family Foundation
Live Ultimate
Joe O’Neill
GRACE HealthMatters
Verne Lusby
Amanda and Ned Offit
Christina Grdovic Baltz and Phillip Baltz
Macallan Scotch
Michael Olander
The Great Chappaqua Bake Sale
Magellan Health Services
OmegaProtein
The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation
Mario M. Morino Trust
Once Again Nut Butter Collective, Inc.
Bob Greczyn
Steve Markoulis
Anne O’Neil
Jim Griffin
Bob Massave
Oregon Food Bank
Groupon, Inc.
Matejek Family Foundation
Owens Illinois General Inc.
H-E-B
Martha May’s 6th Annual Bake Sale
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
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DONOR LISTING
Pacificbasin Communications, LLC
Stout, Inc.
Kathryn Page
Sun Noodle
Panera, LLC
SunTrust Foundation
Anne and Steve Peacher
SYSCO Food Services - Syracuse
Peggy Pollock Foundation
Elizabeth K. Tam
PepsiCo/FritoLay
Carrie Teffner
Peter Paul Wines
Tektronix Foundation
Lisa and Daniel Peterson
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Gary Pollack
Steve Tisch Family Foundation
Portland Harbor Hotel Associates
Lizzie & Jonathan Tisch Foundation, Inc.
Preferred Speakers
Toledo Refining Company LLC
Public Strategies Washington, Inc.
Lynn Tolin
QBE
Elizabeth Trundle and Peter Stein
Amy Rao
Nancy Tunney
Billy Reeves
Tyson Foods, Inc.
Republic National Distributing Company
United Parcel Service
Retail Data Systems
University of Minnesota
Phyll D. Ribakoff
VeeV Acai Spirit
Ray Risley
Jill Viner
Mark Rodriguez
Elizabeth Wachs
Erin Rott
Wagner Family Foundation
Michael Rubel
Kathryn and John Walters
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald D. Runnels Charitable Fund
Warner Brothers Entertainment
The Sage Foundation
Washington Team Tennis LLC
Perry Sarinsky
Whispering Bells Foundation
Jamie Saxon
Sarah and Rodney White
Randy E. Schimmelpfennig
Carolan and Peter Workman
Sci Senior Management
Yale Charitable Foundation
Todd Seabold
Young’s Market Company of Hawaii
The Segel Foundation
ZAK’S Cafe
Jon Silvan Snyder Family Foundation Trust Hilda Staples State of Colorado Stephen G. & Rosemarie Torres Johnson Family Fund State of NJ Fall FCCLA Leadership Conference Elizabeth and Charles Stephenson Robert and Sheryl Stephenson Stonewall Kitchen & Cooking School
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