{"id":2661,"date":"2025-11-18T21:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:17:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:17:19","slug":"stop-hunger-classroom-challenge-2026-win-2500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/?p=2661","title":{"rendered":"Stop Hunger Classroom Challenge 2026 (Win $2,500)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"tdc-row\"><div class=\"vc_row tdi_2  wpb_row td-pb-row\" >\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_2,\r\n                .tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n                    min-height: 0;\r\n                }\n<\/style><div class=\"vc_column tdi_4  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_4{\r\n                    vertical-align: baseline;\r\n                }\n<\/style><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\" >[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"post-169526\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>Deadline: February 6, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Applications are open for the Stop Hunger Classroom Challenge 2026. Help your students make hunger projects better and answer the question: If you could give where you live, how would you help end hunger?\u00a0 Join classrooms across the country improving familiar efforts like food drives and backpack programs. Students lead, you guide, and YSA provides simple tools to help you get started.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, millions of children in the United States face hunger. This challenge invites K\u201312 classrooms to take something your school already does to help\u2014like a food drive, a backpack program, or another hunger project, and make it stronger, smarter, and more student-led.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simple and flexible for any grade level<\/li>\n<li>Focuses on student voice and leadership<\/li>\n<li>Strengthens projects schools already do<\/li>\n<li>Celebrates both short-term and long-term replicable solutions<\/li>\n<li>National recognition for 29 classrooms \u2013 24 Semi-Finalists will receive $250 or $500, and 5 Finalists will receive $750, $1,000, $1,500, $2,000, or $2,500<\/li>\n<li>Finalists pitch to the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation team for grants up to $2,500<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Eligibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open to schools in the United States.<\/li>\n<li>They invite K\u201312 classrooms to lead the projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Application<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sign Up<\/strong>: It takes just a few minutes to join the challenge. Sign up by February 6, 2026.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hold One Classroom Conversation<\/strong>: Use the short prompts to help students reflect on hunger and imagine how to make their existing efforts more impactful.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Students Take Action<\/strong>: Your students plan and carry out a small project between November and February, then submit a short (up to 3-minute) video by March 6, 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After you sign up, YSA will send you a short Teacher Resource Guide and a project toolkit to help your students lead a meaningful discussion and take action.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ysa.org\/grants\/sodexo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to apply<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ysa.org\/grants\/sodexo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stop Hunger Classroom Challenge<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_column_text css=\"\"] Deadline: February 6, 2026 Applications are open for the Stop Hunger Classroom Challenge 2026. 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