Hunger Free Oklahoma exists to end hunger in Oklahoma.
About us: Hunger Free Oklahoma works to bring a unified, statewide voice to the issue and solutions surrounding hunger, with a goal to ensure all Oklahomans have access to affordable, nutritious food. Hunger Free Oklahoma holds the core belief that hunger is solvable, unnecessary, and unjust, and it impacts everyone living in Oklahoma.
Hunger Free Oklahoma’s objective is to serve as a resource to existing efforts, facilitating collaboration, and providing technical assistance, data, and planning to expand nutrition programs and enrich efforts already in place. Hunger Free Oklahoma may also pilot efforts that have been successful in other states like Texas, Colorado, and Illinois. It will forge partnerships with successful national movements to leverage citizen engagement and resources for this cause. It will be a platform for hosting or coordinating local and national research efforts addressing hunger and the intersection of hunger and health, as well as hunger and educational outcomes. Hunger Free Oklahoma will ensure that research results are applied in action, and it will advance public-private partnerships to accomplish much of this work in an efficient and impactful way.
Our Vision
All Oklahomans have enough food every day.
Our Mission
Leveraging the power of collaboration to solve hunger in Oklahoma by improving systems, policies, and practices.
“Hunger is a foundational issue. If we don’t address it in a systemic manner through lasting change investments in other areas, it will be ineffective. If we do not address hunger in our state, we will not be able to fully address health, education, or poverty. That is why we work every day to bring our public and private sectors together to ensure every Oklahoman has access to the nutrition they need to live healthy and productive lives.”
Chris Bernard
Executive Director, Hunger Free Oklahoma
“Every Oklahoman deserves access to enough nutritious food to support a healthy life. Hunger hinders Oklahoman’s educational attainment, worsens health outcomes, and reduces the economic productivity of our state. We can’t begin to be a top 10 state until we take care of every Oklahoman’s most basic needs, of which hunger might be the most pressing issue effecting the most Oklahomans.”
Richard Comeau
Program Director, Hunger Free Oklahoma