Demographic information for Maine.

1. NO KID HUNGRY IN MAINE: MARCH 2012 COOKING MATTERS & SHOPPING MATTERS
Maine Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters® teaches families at risk of
hunger how to get more food for their money and better
nourishment from those foods. Volunteer culinary and nutrition
Share Our Strength is a national organization that is dedicated to ensuring experts lead six-week cooking and nutrition courses and hour-long
that no kid in America grows up hungry. Shopping Matters® grocery store tours where participants learn
how to select nutritious and low-cost ingredients and prepare them
in delicious and healthy ways. In Maine, Share Our Strength
HUNGER AT A GLANCE partners with Good Shepherd Food Bank to operate the program.
2011 Cooking Matters and Shopping Matters Course and Tour Participants: 333
Number of Hungry Children in Maine: 68,950
School Breakfast Participation (2010-2011): 49.6%
Summer Nutrition Participation (2011): 16.5%
Child Poverty Rate (2011): 18% NO KID HUNGRY IN ACTION
ABOUT NO KID HUNGRY
Through the No Kid Hungry® Campaign—a national effort to end childhood
hunger in America by 2015—Share Our Strength is working with governors,
mayors and state, community, faith and private sector leaders across the
country to connect families at risk of hunger with the programs that can
help them. Our focus is on long-term change, the difference between just
feeding a child today and making sure that children in the United States
never go hungry again.
COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS
In Maine , Share Our Strength and the No Kid Hungry campaign funds many Share Our Strength helps support Kids Katering, an innovative program of People’s Regional
organizations working to end childhood hunger through direct service and Opportunity Program (PROP) in Portland, Maine. Kids Katering is a nonprofit food service
anti-hunger program advocacy. company established in 1992 in Portland. The program’s primary purpose is to reduce hunger
Maine Equal Justice Partners Augusta in its community by providing quality, nutritious, affordable and accessible meals to children
and seniors. Kids Katering currently serves over 500 lunches Monday through Friday at 10
East End Kids Katering (PROP) Portland locations in Greater Portland. At a number of the child care centers Kids Katering serves, they
FootPrints Food Pantry Kittery also provide breakfast and snacks daily. As a sponsor agency for the federal Summer Food
Service Program, it also offers summer meals when school is out. Through collaboration with
Good Shepherd Food Bank Portland local partners, Share Our Strength and PROP are helping to ensure that no kid goes hungry
when classes are out. One mother told a Kids Katering employee that “it eases her mind
Cultivating Communities Auburn
knowing that her children are having nutritious lunch in a safe place.”
Preble Street Teen Center Portland
GET INVOLVED
Learn more about how you can help end childhood hunger in Maine by
taking the No Kid Hungry pledge at www.nokidhungry.org