Share Our Strength - Operation Frontline®

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Operation Frontline®

Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline is a nutrition education program that fights childhood hunger by teaching families how to make healthy and budget-wise food choices.

Operation Frontline's hands-on classes are taught in the kitchen by professional chefs and nutritionists who volunteer to share their strength by teaching nutrition, cooking, and budgeting to low-income adults and children. The goal of Operation Frontline is to provide a long-term solution to hunger and poor nutrition by teaching participants how to select, purchase, and prepare healthy low-cost food for their families.

ofl in action Since 1993, Operation Frontline has provided effective nutrition education to over 32,000 low-income families facing hunger and poor nutrition. Operation Frontline programs are run in 14 states across the country in partnership with city-wide social service agencies. Local programs provide Operation Frontline's volunteer-led classes at after school programs, family support centers, Head Start agencies, health clinics, and other community nonprofits.

Operation Frontline in Action

Learn more about Operation Frontline and how we mobilize thousands of chefs and nutrition volunteers to offer this one-of-a-kind cooking-based nutrition education program.

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Impact Snapshot

  • 2,999 Total classes
  • 35,867 Class participants
  • 108,717 People reached through special events
  • 1,600 Volunteer instructors

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