Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing the White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities. The Challenge is a nationwide call-to-action to stakeholders across all of society to make bold commitments to advance President Biden’s goal to end hunger and reduce diet-related diseases by 2030-all while reducing disparities. Several organizations and companies are already participating in the Challenge by announcing new commitments today. The Challenge builds on the success of the $8 billion package of private and public sector commitments that the Administration announced as part of the historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health in September 2022, and complements the Biden-Harris Administration’s work to implement the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Today, the Biden-Harris Administration will also announce two new actions it is taking under the Strategy. The Administration will issue draft guidance that offers food manufacturers recommendations on how and when they can use Dietary Guidance Statements on food labels to help inform consumers about their products and how they can contribute to a nutritious diet. It will also issue a proposed rule that, if finalized, would help reduce sodium in the food supply. The rule would provide flexibility for food manufacturers to use safe and suitable salt substitutes in foods like cheese and canned vegetables-many foods already can and do use salt substitutes. White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities To help secure a healthier future for all Americans, the Biden-Harris Administration launched the White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities. Organizations-big or small, public or private-and communities are encouraged to participate by making bold and impact commitments in one or more of the following areas across the five pillars of the National Strategy.

• PILLAR 1: Improve food access and affordability by supporting school food programs; ensuring kids have access to nutritious meals in the summer; and reducing barriers to participation and involving community members in the design and implementation of federal assistance programs.
• PILLAR 2: Integrate nutrition and health by investing in health-related social needs, including conducting more screenings for food insecurity and offering nutrition services; and better educating health professionals about how to help their patients make healthy food choices and be more physically active.
• PILLAR 3: Empower all consumers to make and have access to healthier choices by creating environments that support healthier choices and bolstering local food procurement.
• PILLAR 4: Support physical activity for all by offering more opportunities to be physically active in communities and supporting comprehensive physical activity programs in schools.
• PILLAR 5: Enhance nutrition and food security research by filling nutrition research gaps to continue supporting the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and building the evidence-base to improve federal assistance programs.

The Administration will work with the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, co-chaired by Chef José Andrés and Elena Delle Donne, to help cultivate commitments, and will announce Challenge participants in the fall of 2023. Several companies, non-profits, philanthropic groups, and local elected-officials are already stepping up: