2025 Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation Youth Grants – Jan 26

Posted by Youth Service America on December 17, 2024

The application is now open for YSA’s 15th Annual Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation Youth Grants program! With the generous support of the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation, we are again offering project grants to youth changemakers – ages 5 to 25 – to lead awareness, direct service, advocacy, and philanthropic projects that focus on ending childhood hunger in their communities.

Why focus on childhood hunger? According to the latest estimates, nearly 1 in 5 children (19.2%) in the US is living at risk of hunger; that means 13.8 million children live in food-insecure households in the wealthiest country in the world.

This year, youth may apply for grants of $500 for projects that engage at least 50 other youth as volunteers (project planners, project leaders, and day-of volunteers) in activities designed to help end childhood hunger in their community.

What are we looking for?

• Proposed projects must be youth-led and focus on addressing childhood hunger;
• Projects must take place during the Sodexo Servathon (April 1 – May 31, 2025), with some activity during Youth Service Month (April 11 – May 11, 2025) and/or Global Youth Service Day (April 25-27, 2025) strongly encouraged;
• Projects may take place in schools, colleges/universities, afterschool programs, youth organizations, nonprofits, or faith-based organizations;
• Youth applicants should engage youth not typically asked to serve as volunteers;
• Youth applicants must live in the United States, and activities must benefit children and families in the United States.