CROP Hunger Walk

What CROP Hunger Walk does

CROP Hunger Walk is a community-based walk fundraising initiative operated under Church World Service (CWS), a faith-based nonprofit organization. Founded as a walk event in 1969 with roots in the 1947 Crop Project, the program organizes annual fundraising walks in 500+ communities across the United States. Individual participants and teams recruit family and friends to walk and raise donations through peer-to-peer fundraising; 25% of funds raised are returned to the host community to support local hunger-fighting efforts, while the remaining 75% supports CWS's global mission of addressing hunger, poverty, displacement, and disaster.

The program's core technology infrastructure is provided by OneCause, a third-party peer-to-peer fundraising platform that powers the event website, participant registration, team formation, donation processing, and national leaderboards. Supporting resources include a separate resources portal for fundraising tools and a support site. CROP Hunger Walk has, over time, expanded its giving channels beyond walk-based peer-to-peer fundraising to include corporate sponsorships, plus alternative giving mechanisms (Donor-Advised Funds, IRA Qualified Charitable Distributions, and stock gifts) routed through a Freewill integration.

CROP Hunger Walk operates as a non-profit charitable initiative with a lean team of 9 employees, based in Elkhart, Indiana. It generates no product or service revenue; its sole revenue stream is donations and fundraising proceeds. There is no disclosed pricing model, no disclosed financial figures, and the organization relies entirely on its parent CWS for global mission delivery and on its grassroots community network for fundraising mobilization.

Name

CROP Hunger Walk

Website

https://crophungerwalk.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1947

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

CROP Hunger Walk is a community-based walk fundraising initiative under Church World Service that mobilizes individual participants and teams in 500+ U.S. communities to raise donations for global hunger relief and local food security.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Charitable Fundraising Services

NAICS

Community Food and Housing, and Emergency and Other Relief Services (6242)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Foundations (BPAGAKAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Food Assistance & Nutrition Relief (Emergency Feeding) (BPAGAAAD)

Keywords

• Community fundraising walks
• Hunger relief donations
• Peer-to-peer fundraising
• Charitable walk events
• Faith-based nonprofit

Headquarters

HQ city

Elkhart, IN

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Donations and Fundraising Proceeds: Community members raise funds through CROP Hunger Walk events. After a CROP Hunger Walk ends, 25% of the funds raised is returned to the host community to support local hunger-fighting efforts. The remaining 75% supports the global mission of Church World Service.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

CROP Hunger Walk organizes community-based walk fundraising events held annually in more than 500 U.S. communities. Individual participants register for local walks, form teams with family and friends, and raise donations through peer-to-peer fundraising powered by the OneCause platform. After each walk concludes, 25% of the funds raised are returned to the local host community to support local hunger-fighting efforts, while the remaining 75% supports Church World Service's global mission of addressing hunger, poverty, displacement, and disaster.

Product overview

CROP Hunger Walk is a single annual event offering (not a platform-plus-modules architecture) powered by OneCause. The core product is the CROP Hunger Walk event itself — a community-based walk fundraising initiative held in 500+ U.S. communities to support Church World Service. The offering includes the main event website with fundraising/donation capabilities, participant/team search functionality, corporate sponsorship options, alternative giving methods (DAF, IRA, stock), and community features such as national leaderboards and photo galleries. All components are integrated through the OneCause platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CROP Hunger Walk Event Platform Annual community-based walk fundraising event held in 500+ U.S. communities where individuals register, form teams, and raise donations to support Church World Service's global hunger-relief mission and local anti-hunger initiatives.
• Corporate Sponsorships Corporate giving program that enables companies to donate to the CROP Hunger Walk initiative and partner with the movement to support hunger relief in local communities and globally through Church World Service.

Quantifiable outcome

• 25% of funds raised returned to host communities for local hunger-fighting efforts

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• Church World Service (CWS)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerCROP Hunger Walks are created to support the global mission of Church World Service, a faith-based organization transforming communities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster. CWS is the primary beneficiary of funds raised through CROP Hunger Walks.
• OneCausecoreTechnology or IntegrationOneCause provides the fundraising platform technology powering the CROP Hunger Walk events website and donation processing. The platform enables participant registration, team formation, peer-to-peer fundraising, and online donations.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• WhyHunger: Grassroots anti-hunger nonprofit focused on food justice, fundraising, and supporting community food solutions. Comparable as a community-driven hunger charity, though smaller and more advocacy-oriented than CROP.

Direct peers

• Move For Hunger: Nonprofit that mobilizes community events and networks to fight hunger through food recovery and fundraising. Closely comparable as a community-driven, event-based hunger charity running peer-led campaigns in local communities.
• No Kid Hungry (Share Our Strength): National campaign focused on ending childhood hunger in the U.S., running peer-to-peer and corporate-partner fundraising programs. Comparable as a cause-driven hunger charity that mobilizes individual and corporate donors toward food-security outcomes.
• Feeding America: Largest U.S. hunger-relief nonprofit operating nationwide food bank network and fundraising campaigns. Directly comparable as a national anti-hunger charity raising funds from individuals and corporate partners, though with a much larger operational footprint than CROP.
• Church World Service: Parent faith-based humanitarian organization that is the primary beneficiary of CROP funds. Comparable as a humanitarian aid and hunger-relief NGO running fundraising campaigns, but operating at much larger international scale.
• Heifer International: Nonprofit addressing global hunger and poverty through community-based programs and individual donor fundraising. Comparable mission (sustainable hunger relief) and individual-donor fundraising model, though with a livestock/agricultural emphasis.

Broad incumbents

• American Heart Association Heart Walk: Large nonprofit running nationwide charity walk events for peer-to-peer fundraising. Comparable as a community walk-format fundraiser model, though focused on heart-disease rather than hunger.
• Oxfam America: Large international anti-poverty and hunger organization running individual and institutional fundraising programs in the U.S. Comparable as a mission-aligned hunger/poverty nonprofit but with much broader programmatic scope.
• World Food Programme USA: U.S. fundraising arm of the UN World Food Programme, raising donations from individuals and corporations for global hunger relief. Comparable mission and donor base, but operates at global scale with far greater brand and resource depth.
• Make-A-Wish Walk For Wishes: Community walk-based fundraising format run by a major nonprofit. Comparable as a peer-to-peer community walk fundraising model, though focused on children's wishes rather than hunger relief.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/crophungerwalk

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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