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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.    Have a meet up in your area like they did in Birmingham, UK     With some advanced planning, some social media local communities are coming together to take collective on Blog Action Day.  

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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

Anna: "Grub" is our word for food that's local, that's sustainable, and that's grown with fairness from all along the way, from the seed to the table. So "grub" became our kind of catchall term for those three things, for kind of the values of local, of sustainable, and of fairness.