Wyoming Hunger Initiative celebrates first anniversary

First lady of Wyoming Jennie Gordon celebrated the one year anniversary of the Wyoming Hunger Initiative by sending a letter stating the program has no intentions of slowing down. 

In the letter, Gordon states that she had one goal in mind with the Hunger Initiative, to do whatever she could to support anti-hunger nonprofit organizations working tirelessly throughout the state.

The Wyoming Hunger initiative has accomplished this ongoing goal and more.

Gordon’s Wyoming Hunger Initiative has named six Regional Directors to represent the Initiative across the state.

Gordon’s Hunger Initiative has launched a grant program and a program that utilizes Wyoming’s natural resource of big game animals with the Food from the Field. The program has partnered with local ranchers and farmers with The Food from The Farm + Ranch and other programs in the battle against Wyoming’s food insecurities.  

The initiative also partnered with Admiral Beverage in Worland to provide a refrigerated truck for Star Valley Meat Block, a participating processor in the newly launched Food from the Field program to utilize as storage and transport.

“Wyoming Hunger Initiative has no plans to slow down in its second year,” Gordon said in the letter. “We will continue to show up and meet the challenges of unsettled times with creativity, innovation, and dignity. We take our partnerships very seriously, and we look forward to brainstorming more Wyoming solutions to the challenges that face so many of our neighbors.”

To read the entire letter from Wyoming’s first lady, Jennie Gordon, click here.

To learn more about the Wyoming Hunger Initiative and learn ways to help, visit www.nohungerwyo.org.