impact report 2024

The Year in Joy

We can never say it enough — thank you.


Our community is tough. We work hard, play hard, and care hard. Together, we have weathered ​the impact of wildfires, soaring inflation, homelessness, and a global pandemic. Rental costs ​have grown at almost twice the speed of wages and homeownership for regular people has ​become an impossible dream.


Nevertheless, we're confident our community will overcome because at Bloom, we see the ​best of us each and every day.


We are a movement of folks who kick in money and time, recipes and gardening tips, helping ​hands and shoulders to lean on. Everyone who sets foot inside Bloom has someone else's best ​interest in mind. There is a special kind of camaraderie between people who are determined to ​lift each other up and build a better world.


In this Impact Report, we’re thrilled to share what brings out the best in us at Bloom. Thank ​you for making this joyful place possible and for continuing to move the mission forward.


In Gratitude,

The Hunger Coalition Team

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Juan

This year, Juan volunteered at ​our Grocery Distribution and ​helped with building repairs. He ​said the spirit of giving back at ​Bloom is contagious which ​inspired him to keep ​volunteering.

Rossy

Rossy cooked Locro de Zapallo ​in one of our huge pots and was ​surprised we didn't have an ​equally huge spoon for stirring. ​A few weeks later, her friend ​brought a big, wooden spoon ​from Peru as a gift to Bloom.

cl​ark

Clark was transplating ​strawberries at The Hope ​Garden. When asked what ​she wanted to do next — ​color or spread mulch — she ​chose to mulch.

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Tune in for full ​episodes of Taste ​Buds on Instagram ​@thehungercoalition

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taste test ​challenge

Bloom Truck brings free food, fun, and ​reading with The Community Library to kids ​from Carey to Ketchum each summer — this ​summer dishing up 4,456 lunches!


Liam joined our Taste Buds crew and bravely ​took part in a blind taste test. He sampled ​through a lineup of fresh and pickled ​produce from Bloom. Though he may have ​confused pickled radishes with pepperoni ​(honest mistake), he went 3 for 4, correctly ​identifying dill pickles, pears, and fresh ​radishes. You rock, Liam!


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STRENGTH IN NUMBERS

8,907

homemade​ Community Meals​ have been shared in​ the last year.​

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people attended at ​least one cooking club ​session where we ​regularly shared ​recipes, cooked, and ​ate together.

1,429

hours were clocked ​by students and ​volunteers in our ​community gardens.

dance with ​your plants

In July, we partnered with LA-based dance ​company, BODYTRAFFIC to host a FREE Afro-​Cuban movement workshop with our friends ​from The Senior Connection. Midway through ​the workshop, everyone raised Bloom ​radishes and carrots overhead and danced ​the day away in tribute to the harvest.


As instructor, Joan Rodriguez said, “It’s ​interesting that you talk about the Movement ​to End Hunger, because our slogan for the past ​few years has been, ‘Without movement, ​nothing changes’. It’s a step in the right ​direction.” Thank you to Joan, to ​BODYTRAFFIC, and to all of the dancers for ​moving us forward every step of the way.




THE TEAM

We are so grateful for all of you who help power the movement to end hunger. Whether you’ve stepped up and ​accessed food, given your time or money, shared your wisdom, split your food box with a neighbor, spoke up at a City ​Council meeting, joined a community event, turned out to vote, cooked up a meal in our kitchen — anything, ​anything that helps the greater good, thank you. The number of people in our circle is growing and we couldn’t be ​more grateful that you’re a part of it.


Click here for our list of supporters for Fiscal Year 2024, July 1, 2023 through ​June 30th, 2024.


your gifts

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Thanks to your generosity, ​our organization stayed ​financially strong and able ​to meet the need. We ​continue to provide food for ​more than double the ​families than we did before ​the pandemic and we ​cannot continue to do so ​without the support from ​our community. Thank you!

Our True ​North

Our mission, vision, and ​values guide our direction ​and keep us fiercely ​committed to the cause.

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Mission

The Hunger Coalition builds a healthy ​community through access to good food ​and addresses the root causes of food ​insecurity in collaboration with key ​partners.

Vision

The Hunger Coalition envisions a ​community where everyone has access to ​good food regardless of economic ​circumstances, where human connections ​grow, and all are empowered to speak up ​and be heard.

Values

Access / Inclusivity / Advocacy / Efficiency / ​Integrity / Equity