NSCAHH Projects

The Hunger Cleanup -- The cleanup is a national community service workathon that increases volunteerism and raises funds for the impoverished while bridging the gap between the campus and the community. Volunteers ask friends and family to sponsor their volunteer hours at neighborhood work projects, such as painting a food bank or starting a community food garden.

For many, the cleanup is their first volunteer experience to help the hungry and homeless. The event not only provides substantial volunteer hours for repairs and cleanup, but also raises money for local, national and international anti-poverty efforts. Over the past decade, NSCAHH volunteers have raised more than $1 million for such programs.

The 18th Annual Hunger Cleanup is on Saturday, April 6th, 2002. Click on the link above to learn more and register.

Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week -- This week of coordinated educational events is frequently the first step toward thoughtful and effective action. Held in November, Hunger and Homelessness Week combines a wide variety of activities which focus on educating the general campus population, increasing participation in community service, and building coalitions.

Food Salvage -- Student-run food salvage programs collect surplus food from area restaurants and campus dining halls and distribute it to emergency food programs on a regular basis. Food salvage programs provide hundreds of people with needed meals each year and serve as an important supplement to longer-term efforts to eradicate hunger.

Students Pushing Legislative Action to Stop Hunger and Homelessness (SPLASH) -- This effort supplies students with the information they need to fight for the hungry and homeless in Congress, as well as in their communities. SPLASH participants have held letter-writing drives, organized media campaigns, and fasted in solidarity with Congressman Tony Hall over the elimination of the U.S. Select Committee On Hunger. Contact NSCAHH to join our SPLASH action alert network.

Project Partnership -- This program was established to build student and community partnerships to determine and to provide services most needed by the hungry and homeless in the local community. Students perform a needs assessment of the local community and then work within the community to fill in the gaps in programs to aid the impoverished. This project builds important ties between the campus and community, and establishes meaningful community service that directly meets the needs of the needy.

Project examples include teaching job training to residents of shelters, increasing literacy, creating a child care program so shelter residents are free to job search, creating community gardens to grow food, and supporting existing food banks.