Ending Hunger, A Generation of Changemakers

“The most important contribution any of us can make now…is to increase the proportion of humans who know that they can cause change.”

Bill Drayton, Ashoka Founder

Ending hunger will take more than changing things “over there” in the developing world. It will also take changing things right here, in the developed world.

That’s why FeelGood is about empowering both college students here and people born into poverty there as changemakers—people who are responding creatively, strategically and compassionately to the many challenges we face.

Here, we provide students, at a pivotal time in their development, an opportunity to discover what it means to become a global citizen, to learn the values and skills of social entrepreneurship, and to acquire a deep understanding of the systemic causes of global hunger and poverty.

There, we invest in organizations that empower people born into poverty to be self-reliant authors of their own development.

Partnership, Not Charity

The FeelGood changemaker experience mirrors in many ways the process of our hunger-ending partner organizations. Both are about empowerment and self-reliance.

So, whether it’s a student in the U.S. running a FeelGood chapter and deli, or a woman in an impoverished community envisioning and acting on a new future for herself, her family and her village, both are learning the critical skills of a changemaker.

This concept of aligning not just with the mission of ending hunger, but also with the process, is what FeelGood means when we talk about Partnership, Not Charity.