OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — This holiday season, Feed the Children is inviting communities around the world to act on a shared truth: every child deserves reliable access to nutritious, culturally relevant food and essentials, no matter the season. For millions of children, the holidays only intensify the hunger and hardship families already face. When schools close for winter break, many children also lose access to meals that are central to their daily nutrition, widening a gap that communities, donors and partners have the power to help close.

Feed the Children, a global movement working to end child hunger, is launching its End Holiday Hunger campaign this week, running through Dec. 31, 2026. The organization is asking donors, corporate partners, volunteers and communities to join a collective effort, so Feed the Children can provide the food and essentials they need most — because hunger doesn’t take a holiday.

“Every child deserves the chance not just to survive, but to thrive,” said Emily Callahan, president and CEO of Feed the Children. “Hunger doesn’t pause for the holidays — it intensifies. The season is a powerful reminder of what’s at stake and a meaningful opportunity for all of us to come together and change that. When we give now and give monthly, we can help children have consistent access to nutritious, culturally relevant food and essentials they urgently need.”

From Urgent Support to Lasting Stability

Feed the Children has focused on providing the support families need most urgently, and that commitment remains. Now, the organization is also working to make that support more consistent, so families can build stability.

Rising food, housing, fuel, insurance and other household costs are stretching family budgets and leaving children’s basic needs uncertain, especially during the holidays. That is why Feed the Children is asking people to give now, when holiday need is greatest, and to go a step further by signing up as a sustaining donor at $19/month. Monthly giving allows the organization to plan ahead and provide families with more consistent support, so children’s needs are met now and in the winter months to come.

A Global Crisis That Knows No Borders

The scale of child hunger is both vast and urgent. According to UNICEF, one in four children under age 5 worldwide is living in severe child food poverty — 181 million children who don’t have reliable access to the nutritious food they need to grow, learn and thrive.

In the U.S. alone, more than 14.1 million children lived in households that experienced food insecurity in 2024, according to the USDA. This challenge extends well beyond the United States. From Malawi to Honduras, from the Philippines to Uganda, children and families are facing hunger and hardship, and seasonal pressures can intensify the strain.

The challenge is compounded by economic pressure. Across the world, rising food costs and household expenses stretch community resources in ways that fall hardest on children. Whether in a farming community in Malawi, a neighborhood in Honduras or a city in the United States, children and families are experiencing hunger — and sustained economic strain can affect children’s health, development and ability to learn.

For many families, the holidays bring added financial strain, and parents like Lyn feel it most. “During the holidays, money is a challenge,” Lyn said. “I don’t want my kids to be hungry. I don’t want any child or anyone to be hungry. There’s no words to explain the feeling that you get when you know your children are going to have dinner on the table for Christmas or Thanksgiving.”

A Growing Need, A Global Response

Across the regions Feed the Children serves, that pressure is real and immediate. In Tanzania, 12-year-old Catherine knows firsthand how hunger can stand in the way of learning. “It was hard to study when I was hungry,” she said. “Sometimes I couldn’t even finish my assignments because I was tired and hungry. Now I can learn with energy.”

Feed the Children works across nine countries – the United States, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and the Philippines — to deliver food, essentials and educational resources through strategic community partnerships. In fiscal year 2025, the organization distributed nearly 78 million meals to nearly 15 million people spanning almost every U.S. state and those eight countries. That impact is made possible by supporters: every $1 given provides $8 in food and essentials for children and families around the world.

“Hunger is not always visible, but it is everywhere,” Callahan said. “From rural communities to urban neighborhoods, children go without the food and essentials they need to grow. When we come together — donors, partners, communities — we can help rewrite that story.”

A Season for Global Action

The End Holiday Hunger campaign, kicking off this week, reflects a broader truth about food insecurity: the holiday season is one of the most critical times for collective action. As communities across East Africa, Central America, Asia and the United States enter a season often marked by celebration, families experiencing food insecurity see demand for food and essential resources rise — and the opportunity for partners, donors and communities to make a meaningful difference grows with it.

Feed the Children is uniting communities, corporate partners and individual supporters around a shared conviction: every child should start the new year with enough to eat. The most powerful way to help is to become a monthly donor at $19/month. Monthly gifts allow Feed the Children to plan ahead and provide food and essentials more consistently.

Every gift helps, and donations made through Dec. 31, 2026 will bring food and essentials to children and families across the U.S. and around the world.

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Campaign Partners

Feed the Children is proud to work alongside a coalition of mission-aligned organizations committed to helping end holiday hunger for children and families everywhere. Feed the Children is grateful for the support of Magic Johnson Foundation, Mattel, StarKist, Operation Warm, Los Angeles Football Club, Detroit Pistons and Premier Nutrition, whose generous contributions are helping to put food and essentials into the hands of children and families in the U.S. and around the world this holiday season.

Each week through December, Feed the Children will share the story of a child from one of the four regions where it works—the United States, Africa, Central America and Asia. These firsthand accounts reflect what’s possible when communities unite around a common cause: ensuring every child can survive and thrive. Sharing these stories helps more people understand that hunger exists everywhere right now. Follow their stories, and become a monthly donor at $19/month and join the global movement to end holiday hunger at EndHolidayHunger.org. 

About Feed the Children
Feed the Children is a global movement focused on ending childhood hunger in the U.S. and around the world. Working alongside communities, we provide food, essentials, and opportunities to children and families who need them most so every child can survive and thrive. We are committed to helping families experiencing hunger and hardship so children have what they need to stay healthy, learn, and grow. By uniting people and inspiring action, we work to create a world where no child goes to bed hungry. Compassion has no borders. We believe that every child deserves a chance to thrive. Learn how you can help create a world without childhood hunger at feedthechildren.org.

Feed the Children | Create a world where no child goes to bed hungry.

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Bilt Neighborhood OS connects every step of Bryten’s resident experience from discovery through renewal, at home and across the neighborhood, with AI agents simplifying operations, driving retention and unlocking new revenue

PHOENIX, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Bryten®, a multifamily property management company, today announced an expanded partnership with Bilt, the neighborhood commerce and rewards platform, to unify the resident experience from discovery to renewal, in and around the home.

Bryten will power its operations with Bilt Neighborhood OS™, an AI platform that helps businesses grow by reaching new customers and building loyalty through personalized experiences in their neighborhood. It integrates with Bryten’s existing systems to bring together property services, payments, rewards and Neighborhood Benefits™ in one connected resident experience that extends across Bilt’s network of 50,000+ merchant partners, including sports venues, restaurants, fitness studios, pharmacies, parking lots, retail shops and more.

With Neighborhood OS, Bryten residents will gain access to leasing, move-in checklists, package management, service requests, amenity bookings, building access and smart-home integrations through the same Bilt experience they already use to pay rent, earn and redeem rewards and engage with the neighborhood. They can AI Concierge to handle tasks for them, from submitting a service request to reserving a table at a restaurant nearby.

More value at home and around the neighborhood

Neighborhood OS puts AI agents to work across Bryten’s existing property systems and Bilt’s network of merchant partners. Teams can simply text their agents to generate a lease, approve a maintenance request or reserve a building amenity, or arrange personalized neighborhood benefits, like a home essentials kit on move-in day, two tickets to a sports game ahead of renewal, or a dining credit while a resident’s stove is being repaired. By connecting property operations with neighborhood hospitality, teams can reduce manual work and deliver thoughtful service that strengthens resident loyalty and retention.

“Home is our specialty, and that means making residents feel cared for in the moments that matter,” said John Vranich, Partner, Bryten. “With Bilt Neighborhood OS, we can give our teams more time to focus on residents while connecting everyday service with personalized benefits beyond the community. From a smoother move-in to a thoughtful offer from a nearby restaurant, those experiences help us build lasting relationships and give residents more reasons to stay.”

Through Bilt’s new Rent a Home product, Bryten can also surface available apartments to prospective residents within Bilt’s network of 8 million members and help current residents discover another home within its managed portfolio when they need to move. Listings can include personalized leasing incentives and Neighborhood Benefits™ tailored to the applicant, introducing the value of living in a Bryten-managed community before a prospective resident signs a lease.

One in four U.S. apartment buildings run on Bilt, and Bilt has delivered more than $1 billion in value back to members, helping them pay student loans, cover housing payments, book travel and more.

Built around how residents live

Bilt’s inaugural State of the Neighborhood Study, conducted with 451 Research by S&P Global, found that two-thirds of U.S. consumers do at least 80% of their everyday spending within 15 miles of home. The study also found:

77% of renters say rewards on housing payment alone would make them more likely to stay in their home long term;83% of renters say one platform for everything, from rent payments to dinner reservations, would meaningfully improve their experience; and95% of consumers say they would try a local business if they could earn rewards there.

“Your relationship with a resident starts before they sign a lease and grows through the experiences they have every day,” said Ankur Jain, Founder and CEO of Bilt. “Neighborhood OS helps Bryten connect each of those moments, from finding the apartment to getting a repair handled to going out for dinner around the corner or attending a home game for their favorite sports team. Our AI agents help property managers get tasks done and deliver neighborhood benefits that give residents more value from where they live, building loyalty long before renewal.”

About Bryten

Bryten® is nationally recognized as a leader in multifamily property management, collectively managing more than 60,000 homes across the United States. With decades of experience in conventional multifamily, build-to-rent, affordable housing, new development, lease-ups, and value-add communities, Bryten helps owners and investors improve property performance, strengthen occupancy & resident retention, manage expenses, and protect long-term asset value. Using a people-first approach, Bryten helps create communities where residents can thrive. For more information, visit www.livebryten.com.

About Bilt

Launched in 2021, Bilt is the membership for where you live and the Neighborhood Operating System (OS) powering everything around it. More than 8.2 million members use Bilt to earn rewards on housing payments, build a path to homeownership, and redeem the highest value rewards currency on the market across travel, dining, fitness, sports, and more. With Neighborhood OS™, the AI platform to help businesses grow through the neighborhood, Bilt connects multifamily property managers, travel advisors, sports organizations, and more than 50,000 merchants nationwide with nearby customers. Bilt powers 1 in 4 U.S. apartment buildings, including those in the Bilt Alliance, built with some of the nation’s largest owners and operators. For more information, visit www.bilt.com and download the Bilt app.

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Index Industries is co-founded by Josh Rosenthal, formerly the President of Polychain Capital, joining as CEO, and Brian Hardecker, CEO of Longmark and formerly of Blackstone, joining as Chairman.

The round is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Galaxy Ventures, Polychain Capital, Wintermute Ventures and more.

Index Industries will launch the USHP Index, a proprietary benchmark for U.S. home prices, made investable through USHP, a liquid index product, issued by USHP Limited.

NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Index Industries emerges from stealth with a $50 million seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Polychain Capital, Galaxy Ventures, Wintermute Ventures, and other institutional investors. The company is building the technology and infrastructure to transform U.S. housing into a broadly investable asset class. Its platform combines a daily-reporting index with tokenization technology and real estate and capital markets services to power third-party housing-linked investment products. USHP, based on Index Industries’ U.S. Home Price Index and issued by USHP Limited (BVI), will be the first investment product built on the platform.

U.S. housing is a $55 trillion market, making it one of the largest asset classes in the U.S. Yet despite its scale, broad-based investment exposure to U.S. home prices has remained difficult to access through traditional financial products. Index Industries was founded to close that gap.

Index Industries’ first offering will be the U.S. Home Price Index (USHP Index), a proprietary benchmark for U.S. home prices. Calculated daily, it integrates data from the major housing indices into a single national measure, providing a continuous and comprehensive read on home prices. The index is intended to support housing-market research, reporting, and portfolio monitoring and housing-related financial products.

Index Industries is co-founded by Josh Rosenthal, who joins as CEO following his role as President and General Partner of Polychain Capital, and Brian Hardecker, a former Principal at Blackstone and the Founder and CEO of Longmark, a leading residential real estate platform formed in 2021 that has $2 billion in assets under management. Index Industries combines two worlds of expertise to bring breakthrough tokenization technology to new real estate assets.

“Indexing is one of the most important and least celebrated innovations in modern finance. It reduces the expertise and cost barriers to investing in an entire market, which is what U.S. housing needs,” said Josh Rosenthal, co-founder & CEO of Index Industries. “I’ve spent my career looking for industry-shaping financial technology, and Index Industries is exactly that. It has the potential to change how the world sees housing: not just as a roof over your head or something that is out of reach, but as an investable asset class.”

“U.S. housing is a massive market. It accounts for roughly a quarter of the aggregate value of the U.S. economy, yet it draws far less attention because there haven’t been accessible ways to take a position in it,” said Brian Hardecker, co-founder and chairman of Index Industries and CEO of Longmark Group. “Housing is uniquely inflation-protected, uncorrelated to other asset classes, and has arguably been one of the most stable paths to wealth accumulation. It hasn’t seen the benefits of financial innovation that other sectors have. That’s beginning to change with USHP, and we’re proud to play a role.”

“Real estate is one of tokenization‘s biggest opportunities, but bringing a $55 trillion asset class onchain requires traditional institutional infrastructure no crypto-native team has ever had. That’s the gap Index Industries closes. It’s rare to see two worlds of expertise converge at this caliber: traditional institutional rigor paired with scalable, secure, compliant technology that will unlock access and liquidity for the world’s largest asset class. Index Industries’ partnership with Longmark made leading this investment an easy decision for Lightspeed,” said Justin Overdorff, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Tokenization is a defining innovation in financial markets today, and the world’s largest institutions are racing to adopt it. Index Industries applies tokenization to one of the most sought-after asset classes and is designed to create entirely new financial products that unlock access, income, and liquidity at institutional scale.

The USHP Index is expected to launch imminently. USHP Limited plans to release USHP in 2026 on Ethereum and expand to Solana in 2027. For more information, visit indexindustries.com.

About Index Industries

Index Industries is building the technology and infrastructure to transform U.S. housing into a broadly investable asset class. Founded in 2026 by Josh Rosenthal, CEO of Index Industries and former President of Polychain, and Brian Hardecker, Chairman of Index Industries and CEO of Longmark Group, formerly of Blackstone Real Estate, Index Industries manages the U.S. Home Price Index and provides technology for USHP. To learn more, visit indexindustries.com and follow us on X at @index_inds.

Media Contact: indexindustries@serotonin.co 

Important Notice

This press release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities or other financial instrument in any jurisdiction, including the United States, or to or for the account or benefit of any U.S. person. No securities described or referenced herein have been or will be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or the securities laws of any state of the United States, and no such securities may be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration. Index Industries is not the issuer of USHP and will not offer, sell, distribute, market, redeem, or accept subscriptions for USHP. USHP is expected to be issued by USHP Limited, a British Virgin Islands company and a subsidiary of the USHP Foundation, a Cayman Islands foundation company. Any offering of USHP, if made, will be made solely by the issuer pursuant to separate offering materials and only to eligible non-U.S. persons outside the United States in accordance with applicable law.

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