Interfaith Hunger Initiative(“IHI”): Includes faith leaders and laity from two dozen congregations including Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and Sikh faiths. These communities come together to help end hunger for children and families. It is an all-volunteer run organization that has raised over $350,000 in nearly three years to help change the systems and get food to those in need.  Visit www.interfaithhungerinitiative.org to learn more.

Their mission statement is simple and direct: To end hunger by engaging individuals and communities to provide food for people in need. The Pantry Partners Program is funded solely by IHI.  It creates more access to food, offers client choice and makes pantries more effective and clients better served. Gleaners.org

Umoja Project: This organization is a coalition of congregations in Indiana and the Chulaimbo area of western Kenya which has developed the Umoja Project (“unity” in Kiswahili) to respond to urgent needs of the Chulaimbo’s orphans and vulnerable children. Funds from IHI are used to buy school lunch for over 2700 children, many of whom are AIDS orphans who did not attend school prior to receiving these lunches, so the benefit is twofold:  their minds are being fed as well as their bodies.  Globalinterfaithpartnership.org