Keith Mirchandani, the founder and CEO of Tristar Products, Inc., has partnered with Feeding America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to hunger relief. While the partnership launched by Keith Mirchandani will direct more attention to the cause, Feeding America will also work independently to relieve hunger in America. In the United States alone, millions of families live in poverty and face hunger every day. The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened this crisis, which has left more than 42 million people vulnerable to hunger. Each year, Americans waste billions of pounds of food, but hunger continues to be an issue across the country. Feeding America, with a network of 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries, allocates potentially wasted food to its partner facilities. Hunger disproportionately affects children, seniors, African Americans, indigenous groups, and other people of color. The poverty rate in the black community is 18.7 percent, while the poverty rate in the white community is only 7.3 percent. To combat such food insecurity inequalities, Feeding America works with national organizations to meet the needs of local communities affected by hunger.