Who We Are

We are a community of people in the Greater Des Moines Area hiking to end hunger once a year.

The Des Moines Area Hunger Hike is an incorporated, not-for-profit independent entity (501c3). Our board is comprised of 12-15 individuals from a variety of faiths and professions who serve without compensation. Our recruiters, sponsors and hikers are all volunteers.

Over 96% of each year's funds is allocated to a wide variety of service agencies for food purposes with less than 4% of funds going for required insurance and city fees, publicity and postage expense. A wide variety of service agencies apply for and receive the money for food purposes.

Our hike coincides with World Hunger Week and the awarding of the World Food Prize.

The Hunger Hike board designates a route for individuals and groups to hike together on the second Sunday afternoon in October as visible witness to their concern about hunger among our fellow humans, having made prior collections from friends and neighbors to give tangible evidence of this concern.