Our Approach
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.
Today, the Baylor Collaborative continues to partner with stakeholders across Texas, the nation, and the globe fighting to end hunger. Our partnerships allow us to pioneer research, to test and evaluate innovative models for ending hunger, and to collaborate with leaders to scale those ideas for maximum impact. We believe no one sector can end hunger alone, and cross-sector collaboration propels us toward our vision of a world without hunger.
Cultivating scalable solutions to end hunger
Housed within Baylor University, an R1 Institution in Waco, TX, our community organizers, researchers, and policy experts work tirelessly to increase food security domestically and globally.
We firmly believe a world without hunger is possible by utilizing the distinct but overlapping tools of Public Service and Innovation, Research and Education, and Public Affairs and Strategic Partnerships.