Drew Starbird Marisa Rudolph Phillip Barber Cindy McCown What is the Hunger Index MEASURE COMPARE REVEAL UNDERSTAND How do we use the Hunger Index Monitoring Forecasting Communicating ID: 688816
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Closing the Hunger Gap:The Hunger Index
Drew Starbird
Marisa Rudolph
Phillip Barber
Cindy
McCownSlide2
What is the Hunger Index?
MEASURE
COMPARE
REVEAL
UNDERSTANDSlide3
How do we use the Hunger Index?
Monitoring
Forecasting
Communicating
Decision-making
PartneringSlide4
Closing the Meal Gap:The Hunger Index
Household Spending on Food 2015
San Mateo and Santa ClaraSlide5
Household Spending on FoodSlide6
How many households?Slide7
Closing the Meal Gap:The Hunger Index
Vulnerable HouseholdsSlide8
How many households are vulnerable?
(000 households)
24%
7
6
%
25%
75%Slide9
Vulnerable Households and Meals NeededSlide10
Closing the Meal Gap:The Hunger Index
Where does the food come from?Slide11
Santa Clara
& San Mateo Counties 2015
715
Million Meals
222
,000
householdsSlide12
Food Assistance in SC & SM Counties 2015
T
Total Food Assistance: 233 million mealsSlide13
Total Food Assistance ProvidedSlide14
Closing the Meal Gap:The Hunger Index
How are we doing?
The Hunger Index 2015Slide15
SC & SM County
Hunger Index
(million meals)
45.9%
44.4%
44.4%
37.1%Slide16
Closing the Meal Gap:The Hunger Index
What have we learned?Slide17
The number of
vulnerable households continues to decline. Slide18
Food assistance increased and made a significant difference in people’s lives.Slide19
The Hunger Index fell below 40% for the first time in 5 years.Slide20
Collective effort on the part of public and private agencies reduced hunger. There is more to do.