Press Releases

Mercy Corps Wins $400,000 Grant from Best Buy Children’s Foundation to Expand Youth Activist Network

May 26, 2009

The funding will create opportunities for thousands of new students to participate in Global Citizen Corps, Mercy Corps' youth activist network.

Julie Mancini Joins Mercy Corps as Action Center Director in Portland

May 1, 2009

The new Mercy Corps Action Center opens October 2009 with mission to educate and inspire action

Action Center to End World Hunger Honored with Webby and IDEA Awards for Giving Visitors Effective Ways to Take Action

April 29, 2009

Actioncenter.org helps visitors learn about the systemic causes of hunger and offers them hundreds of of ways to take action.

MERCY CORPS LAUDS PRESIDENT OBAMA’S PLAN FOR INCREASED FUNDING TO FIGHT HUNGER AND POVERTY

April 2, 2009

The global relief and development agency Mercy Corps today praised President Barack Obama's announcement of new U.S. funding to help the world's poorest people overcome hunger and poverty.

This Holiday Season....Act Now, Eat Later

November 13, 2008

Action Center to End World Hunger Offers Easy Steps To Fight Hunger Epidemic

Mercy Corps makes commitment at Clinton Global Initiative to empower one million poverty-fighting activists

September 25, 2008

Mercy Corps today committed to a five-year, $17.3 million education and activism initiative at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).

Mercy Corps and ESI Design Launch Significant Global Video Field Dispatch Program to Support Aid Projects

June 6, 2008

Mercy Corps, a global relief and development agency, and ESI Design, a world leader in experience design, today announced the launch of an intensive development phase for possibly the first broad-scale video field dispatch program by a major non-governmental organization (NGO). Produced with inexpensive off-the-shelf technologies (like webcams and digital cameras), dispatches will improve awareness in the U.S.

Mercy Corps Announces Innovative Public Space in New York City

February 27, 2008

New Center will inspire visitors to become activists against global hunger and poverty.

World Hunger Action Center To Be Built In Battery Park City

February 27, 2008

Partnership between Mercy Corps and Battery Park City Authority aims to transform visitors into advocates for ending world hunger and poverty.

Mercy Corps’ World Hunger Action Center Receives $1 Million From Lower Manhattan Development Corporation

January 7, 2008

Mercy Corps has been selected to receive a $1 million grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to help support construction of a new facility in Battery Park City focused on the global struggle against hunger and poverty.

In The News

Stars lend their voices to good causes

September 24, 2008

The voices of Tina Fey, Ann Curry and CNN reported Nic Robertson can be heard at the Mercy Corps Action Center to End World Hunger in New York when it opens Oct. 16, World Food Day.

Tina Fey, Ann Curry, Nic Robertson Fight World Hunger; Lend Voices to Mercy Corps Action Center Interactive Exhibit

September 24, 2008

Fey -- as well as Curry, co-anchor of NBC's "Today" and CNN's senior international correspondent Robertson -- will help welcome and educate visitors at the soon-to-be-opened Mercy Corps Action Center to End World Hunger in New York City.

Mercy Corps' new education center goes high-tech

July 8, 2008

The relief agency will use whiz-bang interactivity to "inspire a generation of young people"

U.S. could add $770 million in food aid

May 2, 2008

President Bush's proposal to provide an additional $770 million in international food and development aid is winning praise from Congress and charities, but they say more needs to be done.

Mercy Corps announces plans for museum at new headquarters

April 23, 2008

Mercy Corps announced this morning the creation of an interactive museum on the ground floor of its Old Town-Chinatown headquarters that will highlight issues such as poverty, hunger and conflict resolution.

Hunger for answers at one-of-a-kind site

April 21, 2008

From Haiti to India to the Philippines, severe shortages of food staples such as rice have sparked riots, hoarding and worse. What are you gonna do, right?

Leonardo DiCaprio Buys Ecofriendly Battery Park Apartment

April 17, 2008

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio buys a condominium in the same building that will house the Action Center To End World Hunger.

Dining Calendar: Fighting World Hunger

March 5, 2008

Next fall the Mercy Corps, a nonprofit organization, will open the Action Center to End World Hunger, an educational center, in Battery Park City. “Harvest, Sustenance and Survival,” a preview exhibit of photographs of women and food around the world, is on view through Tuesday in Chelsea Market, 75 Ninth Avenue at 16th Street, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.

3 Nonprofit Groups Get a Manhattan Deal: $1 a Year

March 5, 2008

Mercy Corps joins with two other nonprofits in receiving a landmark lease agreement that helps them occupy the 4,000-square-foot exhibition space in Battery Park City.

'Museum' of hunger feeds more than needy

February 27, 2008

Got a minute? How about an hour or even a day? Mercy Corps' new $5.4 million Action Center to End World Hunger, which will open in Battery Park City this fall, will help visitors learn what they can do to help feed needy people across the globe.