This year’s Fall Event was an evening of imagination, courage and shared purpose.
On October 17, 2026, we welcomed our investors, supporters and guests from around the world to 583 Park Ave in New York City to explore a single question: what becomes possible when we stop letting today’s conditions define tomorrow’s future?
Wild Possibility is the mindset we embrace when we choose to see beyond what is and imagine what has never existed. Throughout the evening, guests were invited into that space through film, story and the voices of the people who are creating a world without hunger.
The heart of the evening belonged to Mabel Bulovi, a farmer, mother of three, an Animator and Area Council Chairperson from Mintakrom, Ghana. Mabel courageously shared her story and how working with us transformed her mindset about what was possible. She join us live from Accra at 1 o’clock in the morning just to reinforce how transformational The Hunger Project is in the lives of millions of people around the world. Watch the video below to hear Mabel’s story.
Imagining a new future for yourself takes courage. It means standing in a place you cannot yet see
and trusting that it could exist. Most people cannot do that alone. I could not do it alone. It took The Hunger Project bringing people together, giving us permission to see ourselves differently, and showing us that we already held the answers to the life we wanted.
Mabel Bulovi
Rowlands Kaotcha, President & CEO of The Hunger Project, then invited guests to stand with him at a threshold: a moment when the old ways of doing things are ending and what comes next is ours to shape. The world has set a goal of zero hunger. Rowlands asked what becomes possible if we aim for something bigger: a world where hunger cannot exist. Drawing on the story of how London rebuilt itself to end cholera, he explored what it takes to move from managing a problem to changing the conditions that create it.
Rowlands was candid that The Hunger Project does not yet have all the answers. What it has is decades of proof that when we ask the right question, the world moves.
I’m not standing here with a finished plan.
I’m standing here with a question worthy of this organization, this moment and of all of you.
Rowlands Kaotcha
The question he refers to is the space of inquiry we are in now: What is missing to move the world from a goal of zero hunger to a world where hunger cannot exist? And Rowlands invited everyone in the room to help answer it. He stated, “bring your thinking, your experience and your hardest questions, and help us discover what’s missing.”
That invitation began before the program did. During the cocktail hour, guests stepped into a telephone booth to answer two questions: When you imagine a world without hunger, what do you see? and Wild Possibility looks like a world where… Their voices were a reminder that the answers will come from all of us.
As the evening came to a close, Tori Palma, Manager of The Hunger Project’s FeelGood program, asked the audience to consider what this moment is asking of all of us. She shared her personal leadership journey and encouraged everyone to stop waiting to act on the idea of a world without hunger until we feel ready; until the challenge feels smaller; for somebody else to lead.
This isn’t a donation. This is a declaration about the kind of world you’re willing to help create.
I don’t want us to look back one day and say we could have done more. I want us to know we showed up. That we believed. That we invested. That we didn’t wait for somebody else.
Tori Palma
Save the Date: October 14, 2027
Next year, The Hunger Project commemorates its 50th anniversary, and we invite you to join us on October 14, 2027 in New York City to mark five decades of partnership with people who refuse to accept hunger as inevitable.
Thank you to our 2026 sponsors!
