MAZON collaborates with diverse stakeholders to showcase what’s possible: a country built on compassion, mutual support, and meaningful opportunity. By reflecting on the world as it is, we create a vision of what it could be — one where those in need are supported, the powerful are held to account, and hunger is a distant memory.
MAZON Bookshelf
MAZON’s virtual Bookshelf is stocked with carefully selected works of fiction and non-fiction related to issues of hunger in America. Choose a book to read on your own or suggest one of the titles at your next book club meeting. Please send book reviews and recommendations to Naama Haviv, Vice President of Community Engagement.
Books for Adults:
- Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement by Janet Poppendieck
- Big Hunger by Andrew Fisher
- Caring about Hunger by George Kent
- The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives by Sasha Abramsky
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
- All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America? by Joel Berg
- The Worst Hard Time, The Untold Story of Those who Survived the Great American Dustbowl, by Timothy Egan (Read together with The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck)
- $2.00 A Day : Living On Almost Nothing In America by Kathryn J. Edin
- Eat Drink Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics by Marion Nestle
- The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David Shipler
- My Name is Lucy Barton: A Novel by Elizabeth Stout
- Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America by Linda Tirado
- Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
- There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice through Jewish Law and Tradition by Rabbi Jill Jacobs
- SNAP Matters: How Food Stamps Affect Health and Well-Being by Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy M. Smeeding, and James P. Ziliak
- So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America by Peter Edelman
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Books for Children
- Maddi’s Fridge by Lois Brandt
- Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Pena
- Bagels From Benny by Aubrey Davis
- Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen by Dyanne Disalvo-Ryan
Take Action
Make a gift to MAZON’s Spotlight Fund
Your partnership allows MAZON to be the national Jewish voice dedicated to fighting hunger, particularly for those facing hunger whose struggles are too often over-looked, disregarded, or discounted. Together, we have made a commitment to shine a spotlight on those issues and populations where larger organizations and the government have yet to turn their focus.
Your support of MAZON’s Spotlight Fund helps us fight hunger, particularly for those who are often over-looked, disregarded, or discounted. Together, we shine a spotlight on issues of food insecurity among military families, veterans, Native Americans, single mothers, LGBTQ seniors, college students, and the people of Puerto Rico and the territories. Your gift today strengthens this mission and helps to build a community dedicated to ending hunger for everyone. Join us.
Urge Congress to Advance Solutions for Single Mothers Facing Hunger
Congress must improve access to vital nutrition benefits for single mothers and address the many circumstances and systemic challenges that contribute to hunger. Take action now.
Educate Your Community
MAZON offers a suite of materials to help educate and engage individuals and communities about the scope of hunger and how we can work together to end it. Learn more.
Urge Congress to Reintroduce the Tribal Nutrition Improvement Act
Join us in urging Congress to reintroduce the Tribal Nutrition Improvement Act, which would enable Tribes to administer child nutrition programs in Indian Country and ensure culturally appropriate food. Take action now.
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