Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity: Ending Childhoold Hunger in America

From the Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity: 


Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity will be running a series of commentaries in the summer of 2012 on the fight to end childhood hunger in America.

This commentary is the tenth and final installment in the series, which is entitled “Ending Childhood Hunger in America.”

by Andrea Silbert, The Eos Foundation

Since it began in 1999, the Eos Foundation has invested in a variety of organizations in Massachusetts. As a funder, several challenges motivate us, including fighting hunger, providing healthy food, promoting urban agriculture, and helping families in low-income communities develop their own backyard gardens. At the same time, we have funded research by Children’s HealthWatch, which confirms how effective programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and heating assistance have been in promoting positive health outcomes and educational achievement among children and, ultimately, helping to break the cycle of poverty. 

Click here to read the full commentary online.