To achieve a sustainable end to chronic hunger for millions of women and their families.

Freedom from Hunger helps people help themselves and others. Freedom from Hunger believes chronically hungry families need a holistic set of services in order to help themselves move out of poverty. We work with local organizations to develop and provide people with a portfolio of financial services that help them invest in and grow businesses, that help them save and insure themselves against predictable shocks and an unknown future, and that help them prepare for and meet their families' health needs. In addition to supporting a household's financial needs, Freedom from Hunger provides families with health, business, and financial education and links them to critical health services so that they can go on to thrive.

Since 1946, Freedom from Hunger has had a long-standing commitment and proven record for fighting to end global hunger and has always worked through local and global partnerships as a means to achieve this goal. Freedom from Hunger leverages a relatively small staff of less than 50 people, with almost 20 of them across Burkina Faso, Ecuador, India, Mali, Mexico and Peru and works through 104 partners in 23 countries. Freedom from Hunger's staff share multi-sectoral expertise in financial services, public health, agriculture, business, technology, gender and evaluation. Utilizing groups of women who come together regularly to meet for savings and credit services as a platform, Freedom from Hunger is able to strategically make use of these financial meeting points to impact the lives of millions of people with health, agricultural and other business services.

Freedom from Hunger's current strategic plan has the following performance goals and targets: 1. Scale. Reach 47 million people in 10 million client households through an expanded set of products, partners, and delivery channels. We will measure scale by calculating number of clients reached via number and types of partners engaged directly or indirectly with Freedom from Hunger. Freedom from Hunger takes a conservative approach to counting beneficiaries given our stronger emphasis on quality control and impact. 2. Customer service. Improve our customer service and sustainability of Freedom from Hunger products among partners. We will measure this by tracking which partners continue to use and deliver Freedom from Hunger products sustainably (by using such measures as operational self-sufficiency, cost of delivery, etc. ). We will also engage partners in a client-satisfaction assessment and calculate the level of noted satisfaction across partners and partner-types. 3. Innovation. We will develop new areas of core business, including social enterprises to market our content through mobile and online platforms and generate new streams of sustainable revenue. We will measure this by the number of new product lines and channels for social enterprise expansion or startups, and number of electronic and mobile-learning and other social enterprises to support delivery of our products and services. 4. Impact. Sustainably improve food security, poverty, and other program outcomes as demonstrated by a variety of planned assessments and evaluations.

Scale. Freedom from Hunger is currently reaching 5. 4 million clients of the 10 million-client target. Customer Service. Every year, Freedom from Hunger conducts a partner satisfaction assessment among its 181 local organizations. Innovation. Two mobile banking programs are under way in Benin and Burkina Faso, connecting rural households and savings groups to formal savings accounts. An elearning platform for training field agents is in the pilot phase among partners in Latin America. Mobile training tools to assist field agents in quality control of education delivery are being tested in West Africa. Impact. Freedom from Hunger currently has assessments under way in Burkina Faso, Ecuador, India and the Philippines.