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2022 PARTNER SPOTLIGHTS
from ANNUAL REPORT 2022
by WhyHunger
Beyond Farming: Supporting Sustainable Fishing in Kenya
Fisher people are the true caretakers of our water ecosystems. WhyHunger works with fishing communities around the world, including El Molo Forum, a movement that mobilizes tribal fisherfolk to protect Lake Turkana, defend livelihoods, and strengthen women and youth leadership. With support from WhyHunger, El Molo Forum trained 60 women and youth through 3 multi-day workshops and set up a central office equipped with computers and printers.
Expanding Local Food Systems in Detroit
Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN) works to build self-reliance, food security and justice in Detroit’s Black community by influencing public policy, engaging in urban agriculture, promoting healthy eating, encouraging cooperative buying and directing youth towards careers in food-related fields. WhyHunger supported DBCFSN to build a sustainable and equitable grocery store sector supplying healthy, accessible local food and a steady source of employment for the community.
Building Self-Determination In Paraguay
Food sovereignty is the ultimate state of freedom for communities, and agroecology is the pathway to that sovereignty. WhyHunger partners with The National Coordination of Indigenous and Peasant Women (CONAMURI), a women-led social movement in Paraguay training hundreds of young people With our support, CONAMURI expanded their IALA to hold women and youth-led workshops, training, seed sharing and political education.
Growing School Gardens in India
The Tamil Nadu Women’s Collective is a rural grassroots organization dedicated to promoting small-scale agroecology to achieve food security in Southern India. In 2022, WhyHunger supported the Tamil Nadu Women’s Collective to coordinate 100 new youth and school garden programs in 5 new villages to grow food sustainably without pesticides and save seeds to provide healthy food for their families.
OUR FINANCIALS
In 2022, your generosity and support helped usher in another successful year of sustained revenue growth and impact.
$7.1 M REVENUE
$6.5 M EXPENSES
Our overall revenue was over $7 million. Despite stock market volatility and significant losses on both endowments, we still exceeded our revenue goals and ended 2022 with a $500,000 surplus. We replenished our Rapid Response Fund, increasing our ability to help partners in crisis and to protect access to nutritious food when disaster strikes. We built our financial resilience by expanding our Operating Reserve Fund, and have not drawn on our line of credit in over 3 years.
WhyHunger is a 4-star charity, with the highest rating for excellence in fiscal management, accountability and transparency from America’s leading independent charity evaluator, Charity Navigator.
