Action Against Hunger 247 West 37th Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10018, 877-777-1420 (April 29, 2008) - Action Against Hunger uses food aid only when responding to emergencies where food is not readily accessible or available. In response to the ongoing crisis in global food prices, our work focuses on the livelihood side of the equation—strengthening agricultural production and enhancing income-generating activities rather than purchasing food for our programs. These programs enhance community independence and self-reliance and as such are the first line of defense against the global crisis in food prices. Donations can be made securely at http://support.actionagainsthunger.org/donate.
	ADRA International Food Security Fund 12501 Old Columbia Pike Silver Spring MD 20904 1.800.424.ADRA (2372) (April 29, 2008) - In response to the growing global food crisis, ADRA is evaluating the most urgent needs for food among vulnerable groups, including refugees, internally displaced persons, rural residents, children, disabled persons, and the elderly in West, Central, and Eastern Africa, parts of Central and South America, and Central Asia. ADRA is now accepting monetary donations to provide increased food aid to supplement existing food distributions and long-term food security initiatives. Donations will allow ADRA to provide complementary nutritional commodities in order to improve the existing caloric intake of beneficiaries. Donations can be made securely at www.adra.org.
	Africare 440 R Street NW Washington, DC 20001 1- 202-328-5370 (April 29, 2008) - From Africare’s earliest work in drought-stricken Sahelian West Africa to today's agricultural development programs in some two dozen countries continent-wide, Africare has made enormous contributions toward the end of African hunger. Millions of vegetable and fruit growers, rice farmers, fishermen, cattle herders, poultry producers, beekeepers and other African agriculturalists have received effective development assistance; and have gone on to boost food supplies locally, regionally and sometimes on the national scale.
	AmeriCares 88 Hamilton Avenue Stamford CT 06902 1-800-486-4357 www.americares.org (April 29, 2008) - AmeriCares is delivering nutritional supplements, vitamins and medicines to health care institutions serving communities vulnerable to the food crisis. In the past few months, AmeriCares nutritional aid has arrived in Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras and Uzbekistan. Additional shipments are in transit or scheduled for Haiti, Gaza, Somalia, North Korea, and Malawi.
	Baptist World Aid Designate Food Crisis 405 North Washington Street Falls Church, VA 22046 703-790-8980 (April 29, 2008) - Baptist World Aid regularly responds worldwide by helping feed the increasing number of people faced with severe hunger situations. Examples: North East India is suffering from the flowering of the bamboo which causes an overpopulation of rodents that eat all standing crops. To date, $20,000 has been sent. New wells in Ethiopia are allowing vegetables to be grown and potable water for villages. A rice distribution program in Cambodia helps rural poor.
	CARE 151 Ellis Street NE Atlanta, GA 30303 1-800-521-2273 (April 29, 2008) - CARE has been working in food aid for more than 60 years and helping people obtain secure access to food is a priority for the organization. Currently CARE offices are assessing the effects of the price hikes on the communities we serve and looking at not only at an emergency response of food assistance but opportunities to work with small farmers to increase food security and self-sufficiency. Our response includes: Somalia, where we are providing food to 660,000 people and plans to feed 200,000 more from June. In Ethiopia, CARE has been providing feed for livestock to protect the livelihoods of poor pastoralists, water storage, and extra food to vulnerable children.
	Catholic Relief Services (CRS) P.O. Box 17090 Baltimore, MD 21203-7090 877-HELP-CRS (April 29, 2008) - As one of the largest private providers of food aid, CRS food experts are looking for new ways to address hunger needs in both rural and urban areas. Seed fairs, seed voucher programs and other safety-net programs already in existence will be bolstered in the countries most affected. CRS will also be putting more resources into cash-for-work and food-for-work programs.
	Christian Children's Fund ChildAlert Fund, 2821 Emerywood Parkway, Richmond, VA 23294, 1-800-776-6767 (June 5, 2008) - CCF is implementing a supplemental feeding program for 3,500 severely and moderately malnourished chldren and about 8,600 of the most affected people, including pregnant and lactating mothers and female heads of households in Ethiopia.
	Christian Reformed World Relief Committee World Food Crisis 2850 Kalamazoo Avenue, S.E. Grand Rapids, MI 49560-0600 800-55-CRWRC (April 29, 2008) - CRWRC is appealing for funds to offset rising food costs for current food programming and for ability to approve emerging and nearly emerging projects. CRWRC's organizational contacts estimate the crisis will begin to impact the world's poorest people keenly in the next 3 to 9 months. CRWRC is gauging the effect on food security and development programs should food aid programming shift from a disaster response focus to the food pricing crisis. CRWRC will maintain food security programs that help participants transition from aid dependence to self-reliance. CRWRC also encourages ongoing integrated development programming that enables underdeveloped countries to build technical skills and infrastructure to stabilize economic development.
	Church World Service 28606 Phillips Street, P.O. Box 968 Elkhart, IN 46515 800-297-1516 (April 29, 2008) - CWS is expanding its food security programs to ensure more people are fed. CWS is securing more plants, a greater provision of seeds and compost for distribution across the Pakistan & Afghanistan region. In Cambodia, as an emergency response CWS hopes to provide more rice to families and individuals in need. While trying to address the pressing needs of the crisis, CWS is also focused on long-term, sustainable solutions to food insecurity by training families to produce food in places where they previously had not been producing it. Provision of needed equipment and instruction in innovative agricultural production techniques means more food can be grown, rather than purchased. CWS will also support the ACT alliance.
	Concern Worldwide 104 East 40th Street Suite 903 New York, NY 10016 (212) 557-8000 (April 29, 2008) - Through its innovative food aid and livelihoods programs, Concern Worldwide is responding to the food crisis across Africa, Asia and Haiti. With 40 years experience targeting hunger, Concern is employing a wide range of programs directed at improving food security and child malnutrition through seeds distributions, crop diversification and Ready-To-Use-Therapeutic Food as part of its Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC) program. In the face of rising food costs, Concern continues to closely monitor the impacts on the poorest of the poor and is scaling up hunger response programs to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable.
	Direct Relief International Designate "Food Crisis" in note 27 South La Patera Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93117 805-964-4767 (April 29, 2008) - Direct Relief will be shipping an Emergency Consignment of Nutritional support items (ensure) along with various other medical supplies. Direct Relief is working with partner Food For the Poor who runs a hospital in Port au Prince as well as a feeding program. Direct relief has been in contact with Partners in Health but nothing conclusive yet. Aid will be focused in these 4 countries: Kenya, Zimbabwe, Liberia and Haiti. Gifts in Kind Accepted: medical goods and materials, and nutritional supplements.
	Episcopal Relief and Development 815 Second Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10017 800-334-7626 (April 29, 2008) - Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) operates programs in countries confronting the food crisis and stands ready to respond. ERD is maintaining close communication with all of local partners around the globe to specifically monitor the Food Crisis. In Haiti, ERD is reinforcing all food security and economic development programs specifically scaling-up our microcredit, reforestation, school-lunch, and training programs supporting small-scale agriculture directly affecting thousands of needy Haitians.
	Food for the Hungry 1224 E. Washington St. Phoenix, AZ 85034 800-248-6437 (April 29, 2008) - Food for the Hungry (FH) is utilizing a voucher system in small towns where there is great need, allowing families to obtain food from local markets. Because the FH staff knows these communities well, these vouchers are the quickest and most effective way of reaching the most people. In addition, Food for the Hungry is shipping dried food packets containing rice and soy protein - each packet yields six small meals - from the states to the countries and communities with the greatest need. FH is intensifying food production activities in rural areas. Households will receive improved seeds, training in cultivation, pest management techniques, and improved post-harvest storage.
	Friends of the World Food Program 1819 L Street NW Suite 900, Washington, DC 20036, 202-530-1694 (April 29, 2008) - High food prices are creating the biggest challenge that WFP has faced in its 45-year history, a silent tsunami threatening to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into hunger. WFP will follow a 3-track response: Full funding for targeted food safety nets and mother-child health programs, scale up school feeding for urgent interventions; WFP will offer its logistics capacity to support life-saving distribution networks; it will also expand cash and voucher programs and support local purchases from small farmers; WFP will support policy reform and provide technical support to governments engaging in agricultural development programs; at the same time WFP will pursue local purchase contracts that can help farmers increase investment and yields.
	International Medical Corps (IMC) 1919 Santa Monica Blvd, Suite 400 Santa Monica, CA 90404 800-481-4462 (June 5, 2008) - As more people become vulnerable to increased food insecurity, International Medical Corps (IMC) is working to reduce the effect the food crisis could have on global health. Working in some of the world's most food-insecure environments, IMC is providing immediate food aid and creating long-term strategies so that communities are better able to avoid the risk of famine and famine-related illness in the future. IMC provides supplemental and therapeutic feeding for malnourished mothers and children through community-based feeding centers. IMC is also working to make communities less affected by price fluctuations by providing people the skills and tools they grow, harvest, and sell their own food.
	International Relief and Development 1621 North Kent Street Fourth Floor Arlington, VA 22209 703-248-0161 (April 29, 2008) - Since 1999, IRD has successfully designed and implemented community-driven food security programs throughout Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. IRD works to address the three pillars of food security—availability, access, and utilization—through a holistic approach that focuses on meeting the immediate needs of the most vulnerable people while targeting the root causes of food insecurity. The organization currently directly distributes food aid in four countries—Cambodia, Chad, Laos, and Niger—to address short term food needs. By tapping into local expertise and developing market-based solutions, IRD ensures that in the long term, vulnerable people are better able to cope with increasing food prices and keep their families healthy.
	International Relief Teams Attn: Emergency Food Appeal 4560 Alvarado Canyon Rd, Suite 2G San Diego, CA 92120 619-284-7979 International Relief Teams (IRT) is accepting cash donations to provide food to vulnerable populations affected by the dramatic rise in world food prices. IRT will focus first on families in the Darfur region of Sudan.
	International Rescue Committee PO Box 96651 Washington, DC 20090-6651 877 REFUGEE (877 733 8433) (April 29, 2008) - The International Rescue Committee responds to a range of chronic food security situations, addressing immediate needs by providing children life-saving therapeutic food in places such as Kenya and Rwanda. Elsewhere, including South Sudan, Northeast Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Liberia, the IRC is implementing ready-to-use food programming, including the provision of nutritional supplements, as well as agricultural assistance projects.
	Latter-Day Saint Charities 50 East North Temple Street Room 701 Salt Lake City, UT 84150 1-800-453-3860, ext 23544 (April 29, 2008) - LDS Charities is currently partnering with various organizations to provide food assistance in the following countries.  Uganda, Sudan, Chad, Mozambique, Kenya, Ethiopia, Albania, DR Congo, Burundi, Ghana, Peru, Colombia, Dominican Republic and Haiti.   LDS Charities will soon be assisting in Somalia.
	Life for Relief and Development 17300 W. 10 Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48075, 800-827-3543 (May 12, 2008) - LIFE distributes emergency food aid to those in need during emergencies and disasters throughout the world. LIFE has ongoing food aid programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Sierra Leone. LIFE provides monthly food baskets to needy families and orphans and supplies complimentary foods when available to the most needy and vulnerable in countries where we are operating. LIFE also supplies local farmers with farming tools and seeds to improve their farming methods. LIFE distributes food supplements and vitamins to hospitals and clinics in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan and Sierra Leone. LIFE is accepting gifts in kind of dry and canned food items, food supplements, vitamins, farming tools and seeds.
	Lutheran World Relief P.O. Box 17061 Baltimore, MD 21298-9832 800-597-5972 (April 29, 2008) - Lutheran World Relief (LWR) programs address the root causes and immediate effects of hunger and poverty. LWR works with rural communities to address long term food security issues and provide food aid and other assistance in response to emergencies. Specific interventions include local agricultural production of staple and cash crops; work with rural producers to access local and national markets on more favorable terms of trade; preparedness and mitigation efforts to help people strengthen coping mechanisms; and income generation to enhance peoples' long term food security.
	Mercy Corps Global Food Crisis Fund, Dept. NR PO Box 2669 Portland OR 97208 1-800-852-2100 (April 29, 2008) - Mercy Corps has established a Global Food Crisis Fund to combat the negative impact that rising food prices are having on the world’s poor. The Global Food Crisis Fund will raise and distribute funds to countries where Mercy Corps works and people have been most severely impacted by rising food prices. This is a long-term problem that needs to be tackled with increases in food aid, as well as investments in local agriculture and economies so that communities can feed themselves.
	Mercy-USA for Aid and Development Food Aid 44450 Pinetree Drive, Suite 201 Plymouth, Michigan 48170-3869 800-556-3729 (800-55-MERCY) (April 29, 2008) - Mercy-USA for Aid and Development has seven supplementary feeding centers in central and southern Somalia. Since January 2007, these centers have examined and treated over 9,370 malnourished children. The children and their families also receive take home food rations. According to UNICEF, Somalia is the worst place in the world for children. Approximately one in seven children under the age of five in Somalia are acutely malnourished.
	Oxfam America National Mail Processing Center, P.O. Box 1211, Albert Lea, MN 56007-1211, 1-800-776-9326 (April 29, 2008) - Oxfam is employing a broad range of tools - adapted to local conditions – to address food insecurity and the current crisis. These include emergency food distributions where Oxfam buys food locally in order to support the local economy, and interventions aimed at reducing people's vulnerability to market fluctuations. Oxfam engages in campaigning and advocacy work on aid reform, climate change, agriculture, and trade includes recommendations on the global food crisis aimed at preventing further negative impact. Working with governments, other non-governmental organizations, and local partners, Oxfam will continue to address the crisis and its underlying causes, as well as its impact on the world’s poor.
	Save the Children USA Global Action Fund 54 Wilton Road Westport, CT 06880 800-728-3843 (April 29, 2008) - Save the Children works in more than 50 countries around the world, helping children survive and thrive by improving their health, education and economic opportunities, and by assisting them in times of acute crisis. The agency helps to alleviate hunger and malnutrition for children in need, and is working to fund and implement "safety net" programs for families severely affected by the current emergency, especially newly vulnerable populations in urban areas and young children. Save the Children has already seen its long-term food programs — including those in Darfur — affected by this growing crisis, and is working toward immediate as well as long-term solutions to food security issues faced by families.
	United Methodist Committee on Relief International Disaster Response, 982450 UMCOR PO Box 9068 New York, NY 10087 800-554-8583 (April 29, 2008) - UMCOR is responding through field offices in affected areas and through partner organizations in places where UMCOR does not have offices.
	World Concern 19303 Fremont Avenue North Seattle, WA 98133 800-755-5022 (April 29, 2008) - World Concern and Operation Blessing are planning to ship two 40-foot containers of soy-enriched rice to Haiti in May. The food will provide over one million meals and will be distributed through the partners of the Association of HIV/AIDS (AHA) in Haiti to those who are most at risk in the current food shortage. “For those affected by HIV/AIDS, a lack of adequate nutrition interferes with the body's ability to fight off infection and respond to medication. Nutrition deficits lead to a faster disease progression and deterioration," says Alison Lindner, MPH, World's Concern's HIV/AIDS manager.
	World Emergency Relief P.O. Box 131570 Carlsbad, CA 92013 888.484.4543 (April 29, 2008) - World Emergency Relief and their global family actively provide food for needy communities in Sudan, Kenya, Burundi, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Cambodia, the Philippines and Romania. WER and their family support vital feeding programs in Honduras, Cambodia and Romania, as well as farming micro-enterprises in Kenya. In March, WER and WER’s global family supplied over 182,000 pounds of food for people in Burundi, South Africa and the Philippines. WER is developing additional food pipelines in Africa and Asia. World Emergency Relief has been fighting hunger worldwide for 23 years.
	World Hope International Nutrition Activities for Orphans and Vulnerable Children 625 Slaters Ln, Suite 200 Alexandria, VA 22314 703.923.9414 (April 29, 2008) - World Hope International provides food and nutrition education to Orphans and Vulnerable Children and individuals living with HIV/AIDS—as well as their community of caregivers—in Southern Africa. These nutrition activities are designed for immediate relief as well as teachable, sustainable approaches to the health of individuals and communities dealing with food crises.
	World Vision P.O. Box 9716 Federal Way, WA 98063 1-888-56-CHILD (April 29, 2008) - World Vision is the World Food Program's largest distributing partner and is in urgent need of donations to continue food assistance to millions of vulnerable people throughout the world. World Vision provides food aid in 30 countries and is working with communities to provide immediate relief as well as long-term solutions to this crisis. World Vision is also protecting children from life-threatening malnutrition and hunger-related diseases, while helping their communities improve farming technique and long-term food security.