More than 15,000 clients a month receive food

14 gardens provide 1,000 servings of vegetables a month

Corporate partners help strengthen our community

Educational food fairs promote healthy eating

Free adult education classes shape lives

Adopt-a-route home delivers to elderly and disabled clients

Fighting Hunger. Shaping Lives. Strengthening Our Community.

Alleviating hunger and its root causes in the heart of Houston's inner city.

Target Hunger, a United Way agency, was founded in 1989 as a grassroots, community-based program to fight the increasing hunger problem within Houston’s inner-city neighborhoods. Community leaders including the late Congressman Mickey Leland and Houston Businessman Pete Van Horn helped form the Select Committee on Hunger to examine the issue of hunger in Houston. They found an area of town where the needs of the hungry were not being met, and Target Hunger was formed.

Today, Target Hunger serves as one of Houston’s largest organizations providing food to food insecure individuals and families living in inner-city neighborhoods. The organization distributes more than five million pounds of food annually and serves 15,000 individuals each month. With 10 food pantries, 11 educational food fair sites, 10 senior day site collaborations, 16 home delivery routes, 14 community gardens, a breakfast program and participation in the USDA commodities program, Target Hunger has created a community in which nobody goes hungry, and individuals are able to provide food for themselves and their families.

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Community Impact

I am blind, and this lifelong disability not only makes it difficult for me to work, but it prevents me from getting the food I need. Target Hunger helps me a lot because they give me groceries. They are there...
Garrett*, Food Pantry Client
Target Hunger helps me a lot with the Feeding the Soul workshop. The classes lift my self-esteem, and I feel better about myself....
Eleanor*, Feeding the Soul Self-Esteem Workshop Participant
Target Hunger helps me get my groceries and the clothes I need. I’ve been homeless for four years, and Target Hunger has been a blessing to me....
Bethany*, Food Pantry Client
Target Hunger lets me feel good for giving back to the people who need a helping hand....
Esmeralda Garza, Volunteer
I think Target Hunger is essential to the community and is doing a great service that is very much needed....
Sandra Dent, Feed the Children All-Stars Weekend Volunteer
My mother always told me to be a blessing to others. It’s rewarding to volunteer at the Food Fairs because I know I’m needed, and my help relieves the stress on the Target Hunger staff as they work to serve...
Joyce Baker, Educational Food Fair Volunteer
As a volunteer, I try to lift up our client’s spirits and let them know that someone cares. I try to give them an encouraging word. My passion is serving people....
Joyce Washington, Permanent Volunteer
Target Hunger is wonderful. It helps a lot of people in this world. Without it, I don’t know what I’d do....
Georgia*, Target Hunger Client
This was my first time volunteering with Target Hunger. I enjoyed myself and was glad to see people from the community helping for such a much needed cause. It was fun and enlightening!...
RaShida Roberts, Feed the Children All-Stars Weekend Volunteer
I try to come to Target Hunger only when I have no other alternative because I realize there are so many other people whose needs are greater than mine. I come to Target Hunger only when I absolutely need it!...
Rochelle*, Food Services Client
I find the Home Delivery Program to be a wonderful service to us. It was not hard to get signed up for the program. Target Hunger made it easy for us elderly people who aren’t able to stand in lines...
William*, Home Delivery Client
It was truly a blessing working with Target Hunger to be a blessing to others. God blesses people so that they can be a blessing to others in need....
Michael Cunningham, Feed the Children All-Stars Weekend Volunteer
I’ve really been helped by attending the Food Fairs. The information I’ve received on Medicaid and other health benefits has helped me care for my mother. Some things I didn’t know, I know now because I’ve attended the Food Fairs....
Angela*, Educational Food Fairs Client
Together we can create a community where nobody goes hungry, and individuals are able to provide food for themselves and their families.