Adopt an Outcome

Freedom from Hunger created the Adopt-an-Outcome giving program to bring you closer to the women and families who benefit from Freedom from Hunger's services. Adopt-an-Outcome gives you a fuller understanding of the impact of your support and more information about how specific outcomes help families become food-secure, healthier and self-sufficient.

As you consider adopting an outcome, you may find the following information helpful.

The Adopt-an-Outcome giving program:

• Helps you understand the tangible results of your generosity by associating your gift with one of the improvements Freedom from Hunger aims to achieve;
• Educates you about the real issues in overcoming hunger and how accomplishing specific outcomes can create lasting change for chronically hungry and poor families;
• Provides insight into Freedom from Hunger's programs-how we work and how we measure success;
• Leverages each contribution for greater impact-your donation supports ongoing, successful programs and attracts more support. Each dollar donated to Freedom from Hunger generates an additional $16 in life-changing services.
• Helps Freedom from Hunger raise needed funds for critically important initiatives.

The Adopt-an-Outcome giving program does not oversimplify the problem of hunger. No matter how much we wish there were a single solution, we acknowledge that there are multiple causes of chronic hunger and they deserve a variety of responses. Freedom from Hunger's self-help programs and targeted outcomes demonstrate that-equipped with the right resources and information-there are many changes a woman can make that can improve her family's food security, health and future prospects.

Adopt-an-Outcome relates your contribution to these powerful changes so that you can better understand the effectiveness of your contribution to Freedom from Hunger. In addition to the descriptions provided for each outcome, the "Behind the Outcomes" box on each Outcome page provides you a link that gives more information on how we achieve these outcomes, the success we've measured and/or the realities of life for the people we serve.

For each outcome, the amount of the gift is related to a portion of the funds required by Freedom from Hunger to deliver these services (costs associated with delivering the tools and technical assistance that result in that outcome) or represent a specific cost unit of an ongoing program.

For example, when you choose to "Prevent a Disaster" for $65, that gift amount represents Freedom from Hunger's actual cost of developing, adapting and delivering malaria education as well as the cost of brokering subsidized, insecticide-treated bednets to an entire village of women in this growing West Africa program. In another example, if you chose to "Empower Girls to Resist Early Marriage" for $1,583, this is the amount that Freedom from Hunger needs to raise and spend (beyond what has already been committed by other donors) to train Indian agencies to meet the specific needs of 83 adolescent girls with education, access to financial services and support to build their self-confidence. For this program initiative, we need to raise a total of $476,750 over the course of three years to meet our goal of bringing 25,000 girls into the program.

Freedom from Hunger knows the power of leverage. We have demonstrated that each individual effort, gift and service has greater impact when effectively combined with the contributions of others. All gifts to the Adopt-an-Outcome program are combined with the contributions of other donors for maximum impact.

In the Adopt-an-Outcome program, as in all Freedom from Hunger programs, our promise to you is to be respectful of your questions and comments, transparent in our responses, and effective in our work. If you would like more information on the outcomes or their cost formulas, please contact Amber Stott, Senior Communications Manager, at astott@freedomfromhunger.org or (530) 758-6200 ext. 1020.