Hunger Awareness

From Hunger to Hope

Your generosity can help create healthier futures across Ohio and beyond.

Choose Where Your Gift Makes an Impact

An empty plate can mean a distracted student in class, a parent skipping meals to feed their family or a community facing barriers to healthy food.

At Ohio State, we're addressing hunger from multiple angles: providing immediate support, researching solutions that work and building a stronger food system for generations to come.

Your generosity can help create healthier futures across Ohio and beyond.

Together, we can fill every plate

Hunger affects students, families and communities in different ways, but meaningful change happens when Buckeyes like you come together to help. Your gift today can provide support now, inspire solutions tomorrow and strengthen the future for generations to come.

Two people organize groceries in a food pantry, placing items on metal shelves stocked with bags of rice, cooking oil, canned goods, and other food while holding brown paper bags.

Help someone today

College students should be focused on learning, not worrying about their next meal. The Student Food Pantry provides access to groceries and essential items in a welcoming, stigma-free environment, helping students stay healthy, focused and on track toward graduation.

Your gift provides immediate support for students facing food insecurity.

Several volunteers crouch in a greenhouse garden bed, planting and tending leafy vegetables while others work in the background.

Help someone tomorrow

Ending hunger requires more than good intentions. It requires understanding the challenges people face and developing solutions informed by community experiences. Researchers in The Ohio State University College of Social Work partner directly with communities to study food access, identify barriers and evaluate programs that can improve health and well-being for individuals and families.

Your gift advances research that creates lasting, evidence-based solutions.

Person holding a white chicken inside a poultry facility, standing in front of tiered metal enclosures with wood shavings covering the floor.

Help sustain the future

At Waterman Agricultural and Natural Resources Laboratory, students gain hands-on experience while contributing to research that supports a safer, more resilient food system. From research plots and greenhouses to student learning opportunities, Waterman helps prepare the next generation of leaders while advancing discoveries that benefit communities everywhere.

Your gift supports the future of food, agriculture and nutrition.

Two students in the Monda Resource Center surrounded by shelves with food donations.

For today, tomorrow and the future

Hunger affects students, families and communities in different ways, but meaningful change happens when Buckeyes like you come together to help.

Your gift today can provide support now, inspire solutions tomorrow and strengthen the future for generations to come.