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Our donors help us provide training, boots, tools, and groceries to families in need.
Community Support
Our volunteers actively engage and support local community efforts to end hunger.
Gift Card Drive 2023
Donate today in any amount and help us achieve our mission of hammering hunger plaguing working families in the California 55th Assembly District (Culver City, Crenshaw, West Adams, View Park-Windsor Hills).
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Apprentice Training Fund
Through advanced construction training/certification programs apprentice learn trade specific skills, gain meaningful work experience, earn recognized industry credentials, and potentially earn college credits or even a degree. Typically led by authorized OSHA outreach instructors and labor organizations, our program partners apprentices with skilled mentors to provide trade specific education in state-of-the art learning facilities, preparing them for high-paying careers.
RAISED$1465
GOAL$10,000
Gift Card Drive 2021
Now more than ever millions of working families are being forced to make difficult choices. COVID-19 has placed new responsibilities on the plates of working & newly unemployed parents struggling to make ends meet, while pulling double duty as full-time educators to their children. Your donations help fill the gap for struggling parents by providing a gift card to fill their grocery needs.
RAISED$5075
GOAL$10,000
National Boot & Tool Bank
Our National Boot & Tool Bank provides newly indentured apprentice with the necessary equipment they need to successfully become skilled tradesmen & tradeswomen. Your donations directly help fund the purchase of work boots, and hand tools for disadvantaged craftspeople nationwide.
RAISED$705
GOAL$10,000
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I really appreciate organizations like Hammer Hunger, this program gave me the tools & support I needed to become a union carpenter apprentice. I now have a career that is in high demand, and pays me a living wage, which allows me to better provide a future for myself and my family.
Ari Jones
Apprentice Carpenter