Toolkits & Reports

Informed by the 10 Lived/Living Experience Advisory Committee, this guide was written to support poverty-reduction groups to meaningfully engage people with lived/living experience.

This toolkit can function as a springboard to reframe and expand our thinking about not only racial justice issues, but about how policies and actions of all sorts can work to promote the well-being of all people.

Study showing that experiences of discrimination are strongly associated with household and childhood hunger.

Study linking household food insecurity to lifetime experiences of discrimination.

This toolkit should be used to guide your own messaging ideas and contains critical strategies for your efforts.

This Action Pack is a free online toolkit that provides information, material customization, and technical assistance to help school personnel start a School Food Pantry at their campus or district.

The Advocacy Playbook is a toolkit and resource, helping to make the case for why advocacy a good idea and provides guidance on how your coalition or organization can help the cause.

Assist a HFC coalition in determining for itself the critical elements for effective organizational management and network functioning and to identify those areas in need of strengthening or further development.

Resources on the intersectionality of racial equity and food security with a healthy planet and climate.

Comprehensive overview on how to apply a racial equity lens to our work

A background paper exploring strategies to end hunger in the United States by 2030.

"To identify solutions to hunger, Congress created the bipartisan National Commission on Hunger “to provide policy recommendations to Congress and the USDA Secretary to more effectively use existing programs and funds of the Department of Agriculture to combat domestic hunger and food insecurity.”

Strategic plan for the RGV Food Policy Council.

White paper with a list of recommended policy initiatives to tackle child and senior food insecurity in the Rio Grande Valley area.

This toolkit guides you though questions to consider and helpful resources to reference when starting or growing a farm to school program.

This narrative and messaging guide focuses on the long-term food system transformation while responding to the evolving circumstances presented by the pandemic, economic downturn, and racial justice reckoning being experienced in the United States.

A diagnostic checklist for coalition staff and key leaders to assess coalition effectiveness.

Community Toolbox is a great resource with interactive tools related to community organizing and community development, ranging from creating and maintaining a coalition all the way to sustaining a coalition and everything in-between.

This guide was designed to connect volunteers with potential volunteer opportunities in our community. Many times people are willing to volunteer, but just do not know how or where they are needed. This template can support the design of a similar tool for your community.

In this guide are tested, effective solutions to the problem of hunger that your congregation can implement. These solutions take advantage of existing programs and resources in the community and can each have a substantial impact on hunger.

This guide is aimed at those interested in selling locally grown food items at area farmers markets. Although written by and for Dallas area producers, much of the information is generic (especially for Texas).

This guide provides best practices for growing food in an urban environment and topics to consider as you are putting together an urban agriculture project.

This booklet provides details on the Eating Well is a SNAP! program created by the Senior SNAP Access Task Force (in English and Spanish).

The Senior Hunger Action Team conducted a survey and focus groups in the fall of 2018 to better understand the challenges seniors in Dallas face in accessing healthy food. The responses from over 1600 seniors are informing efforts to craft additional effective strategies to reduce senior hunger.

This report covers the landscape of senior hunger in Dallas, senior SNAP access, senior meals programs, goals and strategies and a Call to Action.

Brief guide/check list on how to implement a Back Pack Food program.