In 2011, a man, who has requested to be anonymous, was walking along the crowded and popular city streets of Manhattan. Along the way, he noticed groups of hungry people who were looking for food and resources. Feeling apprehensive knowing that there are people in need, anonymous wanted to start this project because he wanted to prepare aid for people to feel better with FOOD, an important resource every human deserves to have.  He believed that sharing a map that labeled all the soup kitchens and senior centers in the city would bring people some options where to go when they are in need of food as To start off this project, Anonymous gathered information to find locations of active soup kitchens and senior centers. His aspirations are to make a full map of soup kitchens in every city in America. This way, people in every town who are in need of food have a resource that leads them to where they can get their necessities.

Groups of caring professionals from advertising fields contributed by turning the list of food locations and turning it to small maps. Another team of compassionate residents helped out by sharing the maps around to government agencies, soup kitchens, and senior centers. As for right now, Anonymous’s goal is to spread his project around to other large cities across the U.S. 

So far, since 2013, Street Smarts has distributed over 200,000 copies of hunger maps to 139 food programs and 65 non food programs. Street Smarts is now resuming their mission to help people in need as COVID-19 cases has shut down many accessible eating places for people.