Food for Hungry Minds mobilizes the resources and expertise necessary to support high-quality education for children from poor communities in the United States and throughout the world.

To do so, Food for Hungry Minds engages local partners who establish FHM affiliate organizations that carry out the initiatives to provide poor children with high-quality education, in ways that are:

• Replicable
• Results-focused
• Enable sponsors to personally bridge global divides

Food for Hungry Minds helps mobilize the partners necessary for educational success. In each location, partners representing these sectors are identified and brought together:

• High-quality education partner
• Reputable community agency with high trust relationships in the community
• Business sponsors

Local FHM affiliates are established as NGOs that go through the process of local accreditation. Affiliates run schools aligned with the Food for Hungry Minds model, bringing best educational practices into communities where malnutrition, violence, and illness are endemic. Since it provides both support for educational success and assistance financially and organizationally, FHM International receives regular academic and fiscal reporting. The mission is compassionate. Execution is hard-nosed.

In its ongoing international role, Food for Hungry Minds:

• Supports the creation of schools by identifying and supporting local partners in the establishment of Food for Hungry Minds schools in locations throughout the world
• Provides ongoing support to develop the teachers, administrators and practices that will sustain educational excellence among partner schools
• Monitors educational results and finances of affiliate schools to ensure mission alignment
• Engages sponsors to fund these educational initiatives

Read on to learn about the structure of the first FHM Affiliate in the Philippines.