This weekend, Kitty Seelig, our Executive Director, had the privilege of attending The People’s Food Summit at Riverside Park. She participated in a strategic planning session with people divided into various topic areas. Subjects covered included: Urban Agriculture, Transportation, Health and…

Here is the latest update on all that has been happening with Helpings of Hope over the past couple of years. We hope you find this newsletter informative and inspiring. summer-2016

Helpings of Hope is excited to announce that we will be partnering with Tanorria Askew in the near future. Tanorria will be doing some cooking demonstrations, helping with teaching the refugee women of the Darfur Women Network, and hopefully giving…

“I have found the world kinder than I expected, but less just,” Samuel Johnson is said to have remarked. The same might be said of the popular response to poverty and hunger in America. It, too, is kinder but less…

Reducing life to its simplest components can be a relief for many, especially the young, and especially in a world where an overabundance of choices is no longer an emblem of our freedom but more a sign of our slavery.…

Hunger — the painful sensation that someone feels on a regular basis due to lack of food — is a relatively rare phenomenon in America today, but it nevertheless afflicts a small number of U.S. residents on an intermittent basis.…