About Us

We are happy to introduce The Center for Hunger-Free Communities, founded in 2004 and formerly known as the Philadelphia GROW Project, of the Drexel University School of Public Health. The Center for Hunger-Free Communities offers the same multi-faceted research and action that has characterized the work on hunger and poverty at Drexel with the goal of developing innovative, proven solutions to the challenges of hunger and economic insecurity.

The Center's work encompasses four key projects: 1) Witnesses to Hunger that facilitates participation of mothers who know poverty first-hand in the national dialogue on hunger, 2) the Philadelphia-site of nationally renowned research endeavor, Children’s HealthWatch, that links policy to child well-being and development, 3) the multi-disciplinary GROW Clinic that serves undernourished children and their families based at St. Christopher's Hospital, and 4) Outreach Services that provides case management support and social services referrals for all the families with whom we work as well as guiding S.E.L.F. peer support groups based on the Sanctuary® model.