In Western Maryland and across Maryland — poor and working-class families are facing a crisis that policymakers created. Poverty is now one of the top four leading causes of death in the United States. And while our communities struggle to survive, the Federal government is cutting SNAP, Medicaid, and critical food programs. Food pantries that once served as lifelines are now being told they must pay $500 per delivery. The Maryland Food Bank has warned hunger will more than double.
Through our monthly Projects of Survival food distributions we are seeing the growing crisis of hunger and poverty in our communities. Our projects of survival are not handouts. They are organizing spaces — places where we protect each other, grow leaders, and turn shared struggle into shared power.
Every contribution you make helps feed families today and strengthens a grassroots movement to defend our Right to Health tomorrow.
This campaign is how we fight back:
$25 supplies a grocery bag and fuels organizing conversations
$50 fills a tank for outreach to rural communities
$100 supports food deliveries and leadership training
$500 sustains a site for a month
$1,000 keeps a site open for two months
$6,000 funds a distribution and leadership development for a full year
We are building a united front across Maryland — bringing together Black, white, and brown communities, urban and rural, Democrats, Republicans, and independents — rooted in the same truth: hunger, illness, and poverty are political conditions, and we are organizing to change them.