Millions of Americans struggle with hunger. Millions more struggle with diet-related diseases—like heart disease and diabetes, some of the leading causes of death and disability in the United States. While the effects of hunger impact all Americans, that toll disproportionately impacts underserved communities, communities of color, low-income families and rural Americans.
Mobilizing a Movement
It’s been more than 50 years since the first and only White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health. That pivotal event influenced the country’s food policy agenda for decades afterward.
Half a century later, the White House is holding a conference to catalyze the public and private sectors around a coordinated strategy to:
- accelerate progress and drive transformative change to end hunger in the United States, and
- improve nutrition and physical activity and close the disparities surrounding them.
The goal of these efforts is to end hunger and increase healthy eating and physical activity by 2030.
We Can All End Hunger
Achieving this goal will require collective action. Whether you are a government entity, business, foundation, academic institution, association or individual, you can play a role in this critical effort.
The CDC Foundation, an independent nonprofit organization, worked to identify cross-sector partners interested in making transformative commitments to align their efforts with one or more of the five pillars outlined by the White House. At this time, additional commitments are not being considered.
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Pillars for Collective Action
The five pillars to end hunger and increase healthy eating and physical activity include:
