FOOD RESEARCH & ACTION CENTER INC
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Mission Statement
The mission of the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) is to end poverty-related hunger, to reduce poverty, and to improve nutrition for low-income people in the United States. FRAC works to achieve this by advocating to assure that low-income people have access to federally-funded nutrition assistance programs and other low-income supports that ensure food security, economic security, health, and well-being. The federal nutrition programs on which FRAC most focuses are: SNAP/food stamps; school lunch and breakfast; afterschool and summer nutrition; child care food; and the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). In all of these efforts, FRAC partners closely with a network of hundreds of state and local nonprofit organizations, as well as states, counties, cities, schools, other public agencies, associations, unions, corporations, and national nonprofit groups.
About This Cause
The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) has been working to combat hunger and food insecurity in the U.S. for more than 45 years. Our methods include improving access to key federal nutrition programs among eligible people (e.g., reducing bureaucratic obstacles to applications by eligible children, seniors and families); raising participation rates in those programs; and improving the quality and quantity of benefits in the programs. The federal nutrition programs on which we focus most intensively are: SNAP/food stamps; school meal programs, including breakfast and lunch; out-of-school-time programs, including afterschool and summer meal programs; and early childhood programs such as WIC and nutrition in child care and Head Start. These programs produce an abundance of positive outcomes in addition to reducing hunger, including: improving the nutrition and health of low-income beneficiaries; helping to make children better students; boosting and stabilizing family incomes; strengthening community-based service providers; increasing access to a range of supportive services, including child care; and helping improve the quality of such care. With the exception of WIC, the federal nutrition programs are entitlement programs and can grow as need grows (e.g., the economy worsens) or local stakeholders engage in outreach, without the need for Congressional appropriations changes. Moreover, all of these programs bring federal dollars back into local economies. Each dollar of federal SNAP benefits, for example, generates $1.79 in economic activity, the kind of boost desperately needed by many rural communities. FRAC partners closely with a network of thousands of national, state, and local nonprofit organizations, as well as federal, state and local officials, schools, other public agencies, children’s service providers, educators, health professionals, associations, unions, and corporations, to accomplish our goals.