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The Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty has been awarded a grant to operate the innovative Meals-to-You program for a fifth summer.

The program is called Meals-to-You. It’s a collaboration between Baylor University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The program is called Meals-to-You. It’s a collaboration between Baylor University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Proximity, policy and research play significant roles in the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty’s fight to end food insecurity. In this Baylor Connections, Jeremy Everett, BCHP executive director, conveys the heart behind the call to feed the hungry—both close to home and around the world—and examines how relationships, high-level research and multi-sector partnerships boost the work they do.

The Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty advances research and projects with a goal of ending hunger. Discover how partnerships with the USDA and more have scaled their efforts in Texas to feed five million children in 38 states while growing systemic approaches to counter the factors that lead to food insecurity.

The Meals-to-You demonstration project, designed to provide shelf-stable summer meals for children in rural areas, received funds to continue for a fourth year.

BENSENVILLE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 19, 2022--

How a Baylor pilot study on rural hunger distributed 40M meals across the country this year Hunger is complex and requires more than volunteering and philanthropy to solve. By Jeremy K. Everett As U.S. presidents come and go in modern America, the conditions of people living with hunger and in poverty persist. That does not mean that some of our presidents haven’t tried to improve conditions of the poor, whether they address AIDS in Africa or increase access to health care for millions of Ame...