Toolkits & Resources

• Publications, including our annual report, school breakfast and summer nutrition reports, as well as other materials
• Compiled facts about hunger and poverty in Colorado and through the U.S.

USDA:

• Household Food Security in the United States in 2011 report
• Program Access Index 2011 reports on SNAP participation and administration by state
• Research on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, including national and state participation rates as well as characteristics of households

Food and Research Action Center:

• Food Hardship in America 2012 report
• School Breakfast Scorecard for school year 2011-12 with state-by-state data
• School Breakfast: Making it Work in Large School Districts (School Year 2011-12), highlighting two Colorado school districts
• Food Hardship in Amercia – Households with and without children 2010 report
• Polls and analyses on public attitudes towards hunger
• Brief explores research on critical role SNAP plays in improving health

Share Our Strength:

• Hunger in Our Schools: Teachers Report 2012
• National 2012 Post-Election Survey on Childhood Hunger
• 2013 Breakfast Infographic 
• Ending childhood hunger: A social impact analysis

Other organizations:

• 2013 Kids Count in Colorado report released by Colorado Children’s Campaign
• Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s June 2012 report on food-insecure children and pregnant women in Colorado and its implications on obesity
• Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap, food insecurity by county
• U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, Poverty: 2010 and 2011
• Denver Food Access Task Force released “Healthy Food for All: Encouraging Grocery Investment in Colorado” in December 2011
• U.S. Conference of Mayors 2012 Hunger and Homelessness Survey