Share Our Strength
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| Abbreviation | SOS |
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| Motto | No Kid Hungry |
| Formation | 1984 |
| Type | Non-profit |
| Legal status | 501(c)(3) |
| Purpose | To end child hunger. |
| Headquarters | Washington, DC |
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Region served
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United States (w/ some international grants funding) |
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Budget
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$12,000,000 annually |
| Website | strength |
| Remarks | Share Our Strength serves dual purposes of helping to end child hunger through both state partnerships, field work, and granting money to other hunger-oriented non-profit organizations. |
Share Our Strength is a national organization working to end childhood hunger in the United States. Share Our Strength holds culinary events, solicits individual donations, and uses social media to raise funds, which are then used to fund long-term solutions to the hunger problem. Through corporate sponsorships, funds that Share Our Strength raises are then significantly magnified.
Share Our Strength was founded in 1984 by brother and sister Billy and Debbie Shore, who continue to lead the organization today. It "began in the basement of a row house on Capitol Hill", and from the beginning was focused on looking for long-term solutions to seemingly eternal problems. During these early years, Share Our Strength focused almost exclusively on fundraising, and granted its funds out entirely to other nonprofit organizations.
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