Target Hunger is mobilizing $9.7 million for a resilient campus
By ensuring reliable backup power for food storage and distribution, Target Hunger aims to enhance emergency preparedness and to expand and continue delivering essential services such as food assistance, education, job training, and social services for low-income residents, even during extreme weather.
Ensuring backup power for food storage and distribution during outages.
Minimizing food waste in emergencies.
Enhancing emergency preparedness.
To build a picture of each community, the Resilience for Communities (R4C) program used risk mapping, open-data sources, expert interviews, community surveys and focus groups. This assessment used the Climate Resilience Measurement for Communities (CRMC) tool to assess community resilience to extreme heat and flooding - helping to identify priorities and design solutions.
Sources of resilience — Enhanced food security strengthens the community’s financial, human and social capital.
With upgrades made to the facility, Target Hunger can expand and continue delivering essential services such as food assistance, education, job training and social services for low-income residents.
Strengthening the resilience of Target Hunger’s Campus and Education Center will provide a safe space for the community to access resources and shelter during extreme weather events.
Impact multipliers — Resilience solutions have a different mix of impact multipliers and impact multiple systems, businesses and societies. Together, multipliers produce anamplified impact.
Improved food access
Improved food access helps residents prepare for extreme heat, floods and winter storms.
Increased community preparedness
Ensuring reliable power in during outages will help families avoid hunger during extreme weather events including heatwaves, winter storms and hurricanes.
Education & Job Training
As part of its capital plan to improve its overall facilities, Target Hunger will offer expanded education, job training and other services on-site at its expanded.
How does this solution make a difference? – Addressing prioritized shocks and stresses
Extreme weather
Power outages
Food insecurity
A resilient education center
Through the continuous development of long-term disaster recovery programs, and bolstering community relationships and resources, this project reduces risks associated with extreme heat, flooding and cold snaps.
Keeping the lights on in an emergency
After power outages have affected Target Hunger’s facilities and the surrounding community repeatedly after emergency events, backup power willl ensure families have a place to shelter and that food access work can continue even during emergencies.
Food security, no matter the weather
A new, more resilient education center for Target Hunger will ensure food distributions and food security programs continue, even during extreme weather events and power outages.
Census tracts in Houston flagged for low income and low food access within a 1-mile distance (Source: U.S Department of Agriculture Food Access Research Atlas).
