growing 20 years of Stop Hunger
2016 impact report
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Dear Friends,
2016 wasn’t just another year in our fight to end hunger; it marked the twentieth anniversary of the Stop Hunger movement.
In addition to celebrating what we’ve accomplished in 2016, we took time to reflect on how far we’ve come in the last two decades. As an organization, we’ve grown by leaps and bounds. In 1996, when we first asked Sodexo employees to join our Stop Hunger efforts, we had 2,000 volunteers. By 2016, that number had swelled to nearly 58,000.
Moreover, we’ve been able to increase our impact on the fight to end hunger in America. In two decades, we’ve granted over $29 million toward the cause. And our twentieth year was one of our most impactful yet. Through our Stop Hunger efforts, we distributed 4.7 million meals and granted over $2.2 million to alleviate hunger in the United States.
We continue to make strides against hunger. Yet, we still have a lot of work to do. Forty-two million Americans are at risk of hunger, including 13 million children.
Hunger is a solvable problem and the solution is within our reach. But the solution isn’t simple. The fight takes sustained effort. That’s why we’re not just serving meals—we’re changing the way the food system works. By supporting programs that reduce food waste and promoting innovative ways to grow healthy produce, we’re targeting the issue of hunger from every angle—in small ways and large.
We couldn’t do any of this work without the help and support of friends and partners, including many young leaders. Passionate young people like 2010 Brady Scholar Katie Stagliano and the 50 Brady Scholars who have taken up the cause and inspire us.
In addition to thousands of volunteers, we work with hundreds of partner organizations, including Alliance to End Hunger, The Campus Kitchens Project, Congressional Hunger Center, Food Recovery Network, Share Our Strength, and Youth Service America. These organizations share our vision for eradicating hunger. Together we make one another stronger, and we’re growing a movement. With them on our side, we are closer to a hunger-free future.
Thank you,
Shondra B. Jenkins Executive Director Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation
Robert A. Stern Chair, Board of DirectorsSodexo Stop Hunger Foundation
87,792hours served
4,695,047meals distributed (or equivalent)
57,879volunteers engaged
852NGO partnerships
Growing a Movement
44countries
5,700,000meals distributed (or equivalent)
113,000volunteers engaged
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Atlanta, GA; Boston, MA; Buffalo, NY; Camden, NJ; Chicago, IL; Denver, CO; Detroit, MI; Ft. Worth, TX; Honolulu, HI;
Indianapolis, IN; Los Angeles, CA; New Orleans, LA; New York, NY; Norfolk, VA; Oklahoma City, OK; Orlando, FL;
Phoenix, AZ; San Jose, CA; Spokane, WA; St. Louis, MO; Syracuse, NY; Terre Haute, IN; Washington, DC
406,185free meals to kids
23cities
During the school year, 22 million children receive free and reduced-priced breakfasts and lunches through their schools. For these children, summer can bring food insecurity and hunger.
Sodexo’s Feeding Our Future program fills this gap by serving free, healthy meals during the summer to children who need them. In 2016, Feeding Our Future provided 406,185 free meals to kids in 23 cities. Since its inception, the program has provided five million meals to children nationwide.
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Heroes of Everyday Life®
We are proud to honor Sodexo employees who volunteer their time and talent to help end hunger, often going to extraordinary lengths to offer solutions. Heroes of Everyday Life each receive a $5,000 grant for their hunger charities of choice.
In 2016, we honored five new Heroes. To date, the Foundation has recognized 123 Heroes and 41 honorable mentions with grants totaling $384,000 for their hunger-related charities.
Tim MacTurkDistrict Manager, Universities, Albany, NY
In 2010, Tim started a program to enable the Sodexo food operations he oversees to rescue surplus food. Since then, they have donated more than 50,000 pounds of food to local food banks. He also organized two annual charity races, which raised $11,000 to help thousands of food-insecure New Yorkers. Tim volunteers at a food bank with his daughter every Sunday and even rounded up 40 of his swim club members to volunteer as part of a “Swimming and Giving” program.
Debbie PetitpainWellness Dietitian, The Medical University of South Carolina,Charleston, SC
As a dietitian, Debbie contributes to the fight against hunger in a unique way—through education. Debbie taught a cultural-based healthy cooking series for community members, which also included health screenings. She also established Kids Eat Free, a USDA summer feeding program at The Medical University of South Carolina. In its first summer, the program provided 2,385 summer meals to kids in need. She also developed a toolkit to help the USDA bring the program to healthcare institutions across the country.
Bernard WoodArea General Manager, Venable LLP, Washington, DC
Over the last 12 years, Bernard has donated 22,000 pounds of surplus food to DC Central Kitchen, which provides 5,000 meals per day to DC-area shelters. Once, Bernard heard that an entire delivery truck’s worth of food was about to be thrown away. He successfully rerouted the truck to DC Central Kitchen, which happily accepted the $23,000 worth of food. Bernard has helped DC Central Kitchen prepare more than 20,000 balanced meals and also serves on the Board of Directors.
Lagrina Denise SimmonsFood Service Worker, Georgia Tech Retail, Atlanta, GA
For more than two decades, Lagrina has been preparing food, boxing it up and personally distributing 50 meals each week to help feed the homeless in her community. In total, Lagrina has prepared more than 52,000 meals, helped more than 30,000 homeless individuals and spent more than 9,360 hours volunteering. Her efforts inspire those around her, and she regularly recruits fellow Sodexo employees to help her. Over 25 volunteers have become a regular part of her efforts.
Jennifer LovejoyCustodian, Monroe Public Schools, Monroe, OH
One winter day in 2000, a girl came to Jennifer’s church without a coat, so Jennifer gave the girl hers. Realizing that some children in her church didn’t have enough food or clothing, Jennifer created a food pantry. She raised the $5,000 to open it by singing, holding yard sales and washing cars. Sixteen years after its founding, the church’s pantry feeds and clothes hundreds of families throughout the year. Jennifer also spends every Thanksgiving preparing and serving food for 150 families.
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57,540hours served
346,047meals donated
37,400volunteers engaged
357,868meals donated to food banks
4,600hours volunteered
3,200Sodexo volunteers,
students and community members engaged
38states
2.6 millionmeals provided
364Sodexo volunteers
650,000backpacks distributed
Every April, Sodexo employees around the world participate in Servathon to fight hunger in their communities, engaging family, friends, youth, clients, customers and vendors. They collect surplus food, raise money, volunteer at local food banks and use their skills and expertise to improve quality of life of those around them.
Stop HungerFood Drive
Backpack Food Program
Sodexo supports Backpack Food Programs through a network of local food banks that provide backpacks filled with nutritious, non-perishable food to students when school meals are not available.
1school year
Stop HungerServathon
Held in the Fall, the Stop Hunger Food Drive has helped feed countless communities across America since 2007.
$68,991raised
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Stephen J. Brady Stop Hunger ScholarsEach year, the Foundation recognizes five national scholars and up to 20 regional honorees (between the ages of 5 and 25) that are helping to fight hunger in their communities. The national Stephen J. Brady Stop Hunger Scholars each receive a $5,000 scholarship for their education as well as a $5,000 grant for the hunger charity of their choice. In 2016, the scholars were affectionately branded as members of the “Hunger Squad.” As members of the Hunger Squad, they leverage their remarkable and unique “powers” to combat hunger and positively impact their communities across America. Since 2007, the Foundation has recognized 220 national & regional honorees and granted $629,000 to their charities and education.
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SnackPacker
Brianna LaFran Moorethe
GeneralJackson Silverman
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Heart
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CouponerIan McKenna Goncalo
the Giving
GardenerAge: 11
Location: Austin, TX
Super power: Founder of The Giving Garden, an organization that helps
kids start community gardens
Age: 17
Location: Blacksburg, VA
Super power: Created the Bruin Snack Closet so children can discreetly get
free snacks during school
70,000meals delivered in 2015 through Micah’s Backpack program
40kids fed by her expansion of summer feeding sites
250,000total meals kids accessed because of her work
Age: 20
Location: Oak Park, MI
Super power: Founder and president of Operation Warm Up/Warm Heart, an organization that focuses on helping those in need
get basic necessities
Age: 11
Location: Charleston, SC
Super power: Founder of I Heart Hungry Kids, an organization that hosts meal-packing parties where
kids help kids in need
Age: 20
Location: Scarsdale, NY
Super power: Founder of Our Coupons Care, channels her
passion for couponing to help those in need
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Growing Leaders
900volunteers recruited
15,000meals served to children
11,000pounds of food collected for families
2,800pounds of produce grown
54local families helped
$8,500raised
1,477volunteers recruited
86,000meals provided for local children
$35,000raised
1,800people helped
$108,000worth of groceries purchased
$21,500raised
Innovation Snapshot No Kid Hungry continued to innovate in 2016, testing new summer meals models including home-delivered meals, automated vending machines, and centralized pick-up locations. Pilot programs ran in seven rural communities in five states and served 40,000 summer meals to kids facing hunger.
Generation No Kid Hungry
Since its launch in 2011, Generation No Kid Hungry has been empowering youth leaders and advocates to be a part of the solution to ending childhood hunger.
The Youth Ambassador program selects college students for placements with local No Kid Hungry community partners where they work on programs like school breakfast, summer meals, and Cooking Matters. Since launching the program in 2011, Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation has funded over 118 Youth Ambassadors.
37Youth Ambassadors
13states
Youth Engagement
ToolkitNo Kid Hungry and Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation teamed up to uncover the best practices for engaging youth in the fight against hunger and uncovered a series of findings that can be applied by other nonprofits to engage youth in any social cause they care about.
Six Steps to Engage Millennials in Social Change1. Ask them.2. Be genuinely inclusive of youth.3. Work through schools as a means to engage youth in this issue.4. Appreciate youth and their perspective.5. Be responsive. Be authentic.6. Use the right communication platforms.
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In 2016, Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign and its partners, like Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation, helped feed kids in more than 2,000 communities across every state in the nation.
500 millionmeals and counting
2,000communities
Share Our Strength
In 2016, Food Recovery Network grew from 150 chapters to 198 in a single year, boosting their reach to 44 states. They worked with more than 363 dining halls and food businesses to recover surplus food and bring it to more than 274 hunger-fighting community partners.
2,626total volunteers engaged
491volunteers engaged at Sodexo sites
300,626total pounds of food rescued
58,993pounds of food rescuedat Sodexo sites
In 2016, Youth Service America awarded 150 Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation Youth Grants to young leaders across the country to launch hunger-focused service projects on Global Youth Service Day in April and over the summer. Other youth and Sodexo employees volunteered for the projects, which included backpack stuffing events, community gardening, food distribution and nutrition education classes.
Every year, 60 million tons of food is wasted in the U.S. Sodexo works with community partners nationwide to divert excess food at Sodexo-managed dining establishments, including college cafeterias, to local food banks. Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation is a founding partner of two leading food recovery organizations.
Since its founding in 2001, The Campus Kitchens Project (CKP) has recovered over 6 million pounds of food and served over 3 million meals. 2016 saw the opening of The Campus Kitchen Center, which helps current and future Campus Kitchens find tools and resources. Overall, 701 students from 340 schools are currently using these resources to work toward opening a new Campus Kitchen. This year, nine new Campus Kitchens have launched.
Food Recovery
157,779meals served
14,488youth volunteers engaged
202public officials contacted
95gardens planted
28,687hours served
“ We have created an effective method
for volunteers to draw upon each other’s skills, knowledge, and support to create bigger and better events.- Nitish, 16
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886,839total pounds of food rescued
361,958total meals served
165,982meals served at Sodexo sites
29,473total volunteers engaged
13,033volunteers engaged at Sodexo sites
*Preliminary and unaudited. Audited financial statements are available upon request.
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Sodexo, Inc. Contributions
Employee Payroll Giving
Cause Marketing, Stop Hunger Week & Vendor Support Employee Driven Fundraisers
Funding Sources 44%
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15%
17%
11%
Funding Sources
Board of DirectorsRobert A. Stern, ChairRohini AnandPascale BradyPaul BrockLorna DonatoneSteve DunmoreGerri Mason HallMark JohnsonJoan McGlocktonJim PazzaneseDave ScanlanJennifer Williamson
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