No Child in Louisiana Should Go Hungry
At No Kid Hungry, we are committed to ensuring that every kid has 3 healthy meals a day, 365 days a year.
The Problem
We know hunger is a solvable problem, but every day it impacts children’s ability to learn and grow. Nearly 22% of children in Louisiana live in food-insecure homes. That phrase may sound mild, but it means that those households don’t have enough food for every family member to lead a healthy life.
We have plenty of food in the United States and federal nutrition programs that work together to provide access to meals and groceries for those facing economic hardship; the problem is that not enough kids and families are able to access them. There are large gaps in the number of kids and families that qualify for benefits and those that are receiving them.
How We Can Help
In collaboration with our partners, No Kid Hungry works to ensure all children have access to the federal nutrition programs in their communities.
Supporting Schools
We work with school districts, providing training, toolkits, and strategic grant funding to launch or enhance existing school meal programs – breakfast, lunch, afterschool, and summer meals.
Building Community Partnerships
We collaborate with community based organizations and support innovative strategies to support afterschool and summer meal programs and connect families to other critical federal nutrition programs like SNAP and WIC.
Advancing Equity
Childhood hunger is the product of longtime systemic inequities. We prioritize support to marginalized communities, seek out and share successful community based solutions, and work to address the root causes of hunger.
Advocating for Kids
We engage with elected and government officials to make sure that ending child hunger is prioritized by decision makers at all levels of government.
Our Team
Rhonda Jackson – Director, No Kid Hungry Louisiana
Rhonda Jackson, MSW, has been the Director of No Kid Hungry Louisiana for over 12 years. She is passionate about ending childhood hunger in Louisiana by ensuring all kids have access to healthy meals and are therefore prepared to learn and able to thrive. Throughout her career, Rhonda has advocated for the needs of children in the school system and working with local nonprofits to implement universal school breakfast programs where every child could at least begin the day prepared at least from a nutritional standpoint.
A native resident of New Orleans, Rhonda continues to be an active in New Orleans culture since her earliest memories as a child viewing the Mardi Gras Indian feathers in her local park.
Tiffany Blackwell – Senior Manager, No Kid Hungry Louisiana
Tiffany Blackwell recently joined the team after spending the past 16 years in Child Nutrition Services at the Algiers Charter School Association. She brings extensive knowledge of the childhood nutrition programs we work with and the real-world implications of how our program priorities can often play out in school systems. In her role, she focuses on working with School Nutrition Directors, community organizations, and outreach campaigns across Louisiana, helping expand our reach by providing technical assistance and grant support.
Tiffany is also a native New Orleanian who enjoys being a basketball and football mom, spending time with her 13-year-old son. She enjoys going to the beach, plans to travel more, and loves fresh flowers!
About Share Our Strength
No Kid Hungry is a national campaign run by Share Our Strength, a nonprofit working to solve problems of hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world. After 25 years of successfully investing in local nonprofits and helping find the best approaches to eradicating poverty and hunger, Share Our Strength launched No Kid Hungry in 2010.
As a child hunger organization, ending childhood hunger is our primary focus, though Share Our Strength continues to invest in and develop other campaigns.
Learn more about Share Our Strength and our other work at ShareOurStrength.org.