Our Vision
Create a community where nobody goes hungry, and individuals are able to provide food for themselves and their families.

HISTORY

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 such as the late congressman Mickey Leland and Pete Van Horn, along with others from the United Way, helped to 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 is one of Houston's largest organizations that distributes food to families. Target Hunger assists individuals in inner-city neighborhoods who are food insecure. 

  • More than 4 million pounds of food are distributed each year.
  • More than 10,500 individuals are served each month.
  • Target Hunger manages 12 food pantries, 11 senior day sites, and 11 home delivery routes.
  • Target Hunger has 16 community gardens that produce an average of 1,000 servings of vegetables per month in peak growing months.

We provide a holistic approach to hunger relief.  Our agency focuses on rebuilding and strengthening family units by empowering our clients to become self-sufficient through our programs.  Target Hunger currently offers the following programs:

  • Nutrition Classes
  • Education / Literacy Programs
  • GED / ESL Classes
  • Self-Esteem Classes
  • Youth Development

Imagine Houston …
A City Without Hunger

 

 

Officers

 

Advisory Committee

 

 

John Simon, Board Chairman
Senior Vice President, Production
Hess Corpotation

Sharon Asinelli, 1st Vice Chairman
ExxonMobil Global Real Estate & Facilities
North Houston Facility Manager
ExxonMobile

Michael Marx, 2nd Vice Chairman
Vise President of Operations - Southwest Division
Kroger

Ronnie Shields, Treasurer, Target Hunger Board
Controller
MXenergy

K. Terry Koonce, Chairman Emeritus, Target Hunger
Retired - President, ExxonMobil Production

Ramona Toliver, Chairperson, Advisory Committe
Retired Educator
Houston Independent School District

 

Ramona Tennyson Toliver
Chairperson

Robert Crane
Co-Chairperson

William Allee
Retired Grocer

David Benson
Director
Precing One Harris county

Charlotte Camacho
Communit Volunteer

Lee Etta Cooper
Director
TDHS

Ann Davison
Case Worker
Houston Housing Authority

Earline Davis Green
Community Volunteer

Betty Henry
Nutritionist
Texas Agri Life Extension

Wiley Henry
Director
Fifth Ward Multi-Service Center

Lillian James
Manager
Communites in Schools

Barbara Johnson
Retired Educator

Hon. Sheila Jackson Lee
U.S. House Of Representative - 18th Congressional District

Gloria Brown McNeil
Retired Nurse

Patricia Pullins, LMSW, LCDC
Manager
The Council on Alcohol & Drugs Houston

N. Joyce Punch
Retired Educator

Alice Rains
Retired Administrator

Mary Reed
Retired Administrator

Evelyn Scott
Retired Educator

Levester Smith
Retired Educator

Marquis Smith
Manager
City of Houston

Tamara Stiner Toomer
Attorney

Daniel White-Brown
Manager
AIDS Foundation Houston

 

Directors

 

William Allee
Retired Grocer

Steve Beasley
Founder and CEO
Eaton Group, Inc.

Steve Barrett
Global Subsea Product Line Director
FMC Technologies

Robert Crane
Retired
Houston Police Department

Ed Dent
Retired Manager
Marketing and Channel Strategies / Fuels Marketing
Motiva Enterprises, LLC

Kristi DesJarlais
Manger, Corporate Communications
Conoco Phillips

Edward Gonzalez
Council Member - District H
City of Houston

Charles Harrell
Partner

Duane Morris LLP

Rosa Jackson
Vise President, Controller
Pipelines
El Paso Corporation

Barbara Johnson
Retired Educator, HISD

Ben Jolly
IT Director
BBS Technologies, Inc.

Keith Kreuer
Board of Directors
BBS Technologies, Inc.

April Little
National Director
Tax Accounting & Risk Advisory Services
Grant Thornton LLP

Lisa Marshall
Managing Director of Corporate Communications
Service Corporation International

Jonathon McAdams
Director of Research
Linscomb & Williams

Mary Pappas
Concept Leader, BBQ
Pappas Restaurants, Inc.

N. Joyce Punch
Retired Educator
Houston Independent School District

Terrell Smith
Senior Product Development Director
BMC Software, Inc.

Debra Clark Stewart
Manager, Supplier Diversity
Workforce Development & Diversity Outreach
Shell Oil Company

George Sutherland
Vice President, ExxonMobil Account
Halliburton

Zenobia Tambuvala
Principal
The Situs Companies

Faith Foreman Williams, PhD
Assistant Director
City of Houston, Dept. of Health & Human Services

Clara B. Cooper
Executive Director






 

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