7 Weeks to Make a Difference:
Join Hunger Hike 2026!
For seven weeks, our community will come together with one goal: to fight hunger and ensure that no one goes without food.
Hunger Hike is a joint effort of Food Finders Food Bank, Lafayette Urban Ministry, and St. Thomas Aquinas Haiti Ministry, bringing individuals, families, businesses, schools, and faith communities together to raise awareness and funds to address food insecurity both locally, regionally, and globally.
Starting August 3rd, you’ll have 7 weeks to make a difference.
Here’s how you can help:
• Start a team and invite others to join you.
• Raise funds in any fun and creative way you choose.
• Make a donation to support the fight against hunger.
• Spread awareness about food insecurity in our community.
Every dollar raised helps provide food, hope, and support to neighbors facing hunger.
Then, on September 20, we will gather as a community to celebrate our efforts, participate in the Hunger Hike, and announce the total amount raised through this incredible community-wide campaign.
Together, we can make a lasting impact. Get out there, raise awareness, raise funds, and hike to reduce hunger.
You have 7 weeks to make a difference. Let’s make them count.
Hunger Hike is an annual community fundraising event whose mission is to Raise Awareness & Make a Difference in the Stand Against Hunger — locally, regionally & globally.
Want to become a fundraiser? Here’s what you need to know to begin raising money in our community’s “stand against hunger.”
- Sunday, September 20, 2026
- 1:00 p.m. – Event begins
- 2:00 p.m. – Brief Ceremony
- 2:15 p.m. – Hike starts
- Riehle Plaza, Lafayette
- MORE DETAILED SCHEDULE – click HERE
Hunger Hike is the perfect event for a team or group — church group, student organization, civic group or your family. Put together a Hunger Hike team and start raising money using our online fundraising site — or any way you choose. We hope you’ll consider joining our Fight against Hunger. Here’s how to get started:
Here are six super easy ways to donate to Hunger Hike today:
- DONATE ONLINE – Make an Online Donate, HERE
- SUPPORT A TEAM – Donate to a Hunger Hike Team, HERE
- SUPPORT A HIKER – Donate to a “Hiker,” HERE
- EVENT SPONSOR – Become an Event Sponsor, email info@hungerhike.org or call 765-423-2691
- DONATE BY MAIL or IN PERSON – Mail in or drop off a donation (Make your check payable to Hunger Hike; Mail or Drop off to — Hunger Hike, 420 N 4th Street, Lafayette, IN 47901)
- TEXT TO DONATE – Text & make an instant impact—just text HHIKE to 50155
Help us Fight Hunger
Hunger Hike is a unique cooperative fundraiser with a history stretching back more than 30 years. The money raised will be shared evenly between Lafayette Urban Ministry, Food Finders Food Bank, and the Saint Thomas Aquinas Haiti Ministry.
Food Finders Food Bank, Inc. will use these funds to advance its mission of providing food and connections to life-stabilizing resources when neighbors need them most. Through food distribution programs, partnerships with local agencies, and direct food assistance initiatives, Food Finders helps provide nutritious meals and groceries to thousands of children, adults, and seniors throughout north central Indiana.
Lafayette Urban Ministry will use the funds to advance its mission of being a lifeline of help and hope for the people of Greater Lafayette by supporting food, nutrition, and shelter programs that serve unhoused individuals, at-risk children, and working families.
Haiti Ministry at St. Thomas Aquinas Center will use the money to provide hybrid seeds, food, clean drinking water, medicine and more to the people of Baudin parish, Haiti.
If you would like to become a Hunger Hike Event Sponsor, email info@hungerhike.org for more information.