Feeding the Future

Our mission is to provide meals for children struggling with hunger, while teaching them a critical life skill to help them break the cycle of food insecurity.

The effects of childhood food insecurity go far beyond hungry children in the classroom. Food insecurity among children has real long-term consequences.

Studies have shown that children suffering from food insecurity not only suffer from obvious health consequences, but it also affects a child’s cognitive ability. This can lead to a number of behavior problems making them more likely to be suspended, repeat a grade, have higher absence rates, and perform worse on standardized testing (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Pediatrics, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry).

This can go on to affect the kinds of employment they can successfully compete for, their consequent earning capacity, and ultimately their lifetime earnings. And those are only things that involve the children themselves, saying nothing of the effect childhood food insecurity has on the community as a whole.

— Steven Cota-Robles
Founder, Executive Director