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A Round Up of Food Charities and Causes to Fight Hunger

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Send A Postcard from the Hunger site As we approach the annual Thanksgiving feast , there are more than 850 million people in the world who go hungry. In developing countries, nearly 11 million children die every year from preventable and treatable, with 60% of these deaths from hunger and malnutrition. Miss it and they???ll

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Hunger is a global issue that affects everyone, everywhere. A couple of weeks ago, we announced our first cohort on Zero Hunger, focusing on food insecurity in the United States. But as we know, getting to Zero Hunger will take collaboration from all regions, with multiple approaches to address the contributing factors.

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Blog Action Day: Can One Person Make A Difference? Challenging Poverty With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He chronicled his story and work in Bangladesh using social media tools and engaging story telling techniques.    Check out what  the Austin area social media activists are doing to raise awareness about hunger and poverty in their local community.  s why this project is called ???uncultured??? uncultured???

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The Purpose Prize

Have Fun - Do Good

Each attending cooperative might represent, for example, 600 artists back home in Bangladesh. Oh yeah, and he used to organize a CROP walk almost every year in our town to raise money for local hunger agencies. As Thanksgiving approaches, I have a lot to be thankful for: my family, my friends, my work, my home and my health.

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Solutionary Women: Anna Lappé of Grub

Have Fun - Do Good

And in that book we were really interested in hearing the voices, the stories of people around the world that were addressing the root causes of hunger and poverty. Well, we all know that probably, but especially in terms of food, especially in terms of hunger, especially in terms of the fate of farmers around the world.