A Brief History
Founded in 2009, the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty began with the goal of making sure every Texan had access to three nutritious meals each day. Using a collective impact approach, the Baylor Collaborative worked alongside local communities to build coalitions of likeminded stakeholders committed to ending hunger in their communities and partnered with school districts and community organizations to make sure more children had access to meals outside of school.
Cultivating scalable solutions to end hunger
Today, the Baylor Collaborative continues to partner with stakeholders across Texas, the nation, and the globe fighting to end hunger. Housed within Baylor University, a recognized R1 institution in Waco, TX, the Baylor Collaborative's partnerships allow it to pioneer research, test and evaluate innovative models for ending hunger, and collaborate with leaders to scale those ideas for maximum impact.
Core Assumption
No one sector can end hunger alone.
Foundational Principles
We firmly believe a world without hunger is possible by utilizing the distinct but overlapping principles of Multi-Sectoral Collaboration, Shared Power, and Collective Impact.
- Multi-Sectoral Collaboration: Diverse sectors working together for a common cause
- Shared Power: Locates power within the lowest appropriate entities both across and within organizations and creates the environment for this shared power to be used to develop effective and legitimate solutions
- Collective Impact: The commitment of a group representing different sectors to a common agenda, with the purpose of solving a specific social problem