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EnglishWhat hhweek.org Provides: Facts and Actions to Help End Hunger and Homelessness
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hhweek.org is the home of Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week, an annual program where people across the country come together to draw attention to hunger and homelessness. If you want to understand the issue and find a concrete way to help, the site offers three main paths: learn the facts, volunteer with an existing event, or host your own. It is a starting point for both individuals and groups rather than a direct service provider.
What Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week Is
According to the site, Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week is an annual program in which participating groups spend the week holding a series of educational, service, fundraising, and advocacy events. The site describes its scale and history this way:
- Held at more than 700 locations
- Millions of dollars raised for local service providers
- Founded in 1975 at Villanova University
- Hundreds of thousands of participants
The framing is collective: people come together across the country to draw attention to the problems of hunger and homelessness. The week is a focal point for that attention, not a single organization's campaign.
Get the Facts: Understanding the Issue
The site's "Get the Facts" section is aimed at readers who want background before they act. Its stated purpose is to help you find out how you can help end hunger and homelessness, with a "Learn More" path into that material.
This matters because the week's events are described as educational as well as service-oriented. If you are planning to speak, teach, or recruit others, the facts section is the natural first stop so your message rests on the site's own framing rather than assumptions.
Three Ways to Take Action
The site organizes participation around a short set of actions: Volunteer. Donate. Educate. In practice, the homepage offers three entry points.
Host an Event
"Host An Event" invites you to bring Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week to your community, with a "Register Your Event" step. This is the path for schools, congregations, nonprofits, and community groups that want to run their own educational, service, fundraising, or advocacy activity during the week.
Volunteer
"Volunteer" points you to search for an Awareness Week near you and find out how to get involved, via a "Find An Event" step. This is the simplest route if you would rather join something already organized than start from scratch.
Get the Facts
"Get the Facts" is the learning path described above — useful on its own, and also the foundation for the other two, since hosting or volunteering usually means explaining why the issue matters.
Which Path Fits You
| Your situation | Start here | What the site offers |
|---|---|---|
| You want to understand the issue first | Get the Facts | Background material with a "Learn More" path |
| You want to help but not organize | Volunteer | Search for an Awareness Week near you and find out how to get involved |
| You have a group, venue, or idea | Host An Event | Bring the week to your community and register your event |
The site does not present these as mutually exclusive. A single person could read the facts, volunteer at a local event, and later host one.
What the Site Does Not Tell You
The available page content does not list specific event dates, locations, or a searchable directory beyond the "Find An Event" and "Register Your Event" actions. It also does not state costs, registration requirements, or eligibility rules for hosting. If you need those details, treat the site's own action pages as the place to check rather than assuming terms.
What it does make clear is the intended outcome: drawing attention to hunger and homelessness, and channeling that attention into education, service, fundraising, and advocacy through hundreds of local events.