CROP Hunger Walk Statistics

When you CROP Hunger Walk, you're:

• Supporting long-term development in some 80 countries
• Helping meet the special needs of refugees
• Assisting in disasters and famines
• Sharing some $4,000,000 annually to support local hunger fighting
  efforts across the U.S.
• Getting some exercise, too!

• 68% are over 18, average age is 33.5
• About two-thirds are women
• 64% of CROP Hunger Walkers over age 18 have a college or advanced degree, half are professionally employed in their communities
• Half are CROP Hunger Walking for their second, third, fourth, or more time
• 73% of participants say fighting hunger locally and globally is their key reason for taking part
• 53% say the CROP Hunger Walk is the only fund-raising marathon-type activity in which they participate
• Walkers get about 95% of their sponsors from their neighborhood, workplace, family, and place of worship

• 5,319,258 CROP Hunger Walkers over the past 20 years
• 1,732 CROP Hunger Walks and other community events in Fall 2005-Spring 2006
• 36,171 CROP Hunger Walks in the past two decades
• Food banks, pantries, and other local hunger-fighting initiatives received checks from CROP Hunger Walks in Fall 2005-Spring 2006 totaling nearly $4 million
• Upwards of 200 corporations match employee gifts and/or volunteer hours to the CROP Hunger Walk
• $277,669,017 raised by CROP Hunger Walkers over the past 20 years

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