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Share Our Strength Day of Service: Painting Murals in the School Cafeteria

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.  I also talked to the volunteers about why they were so passionate about the issue of ending childhood hunger. The mural depicts mother earth who gives life and food next to a healthy selection of fruits and vegetables. Latoya was thrilled to her design come to life before her eyes.

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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

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The statistics on hunger in America are startling: 14.5% "Food insecurity" means that, at some point in the year, a household lacked access to enough nutritious food to support an "active, healthy life for all household members." Food Insecurity in a Land of Plenty. Department of Agriculture (USDA). That's 3.9

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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

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What is happening in your hero’s life? They’re just overall happier children, and their success at school sets them up for success later in life! Who would have thought a simple meal could change a family’s life? Please give so that we can end childhood hunger in India and help these children realize their full potential.

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Member Round Up: Game of Thrones and emergency response, diversity data, and an app to help connect youth with summer meals!

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Turns out, there''s parallels in the fictional series to real-life emergency response. Want to combat childhood hunger? Wondering what goes through a Red Cross er''s mind while watching "Game of Thrones"? Open diversity data is an effort to make the diversity data collected by companies publicly available.

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Cause Marketing or Cause Me To Puke Marketing? Interview with Scott Henderson

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2) Can you tell me about the "Pledge to End Hunger" that you recently launched to benefit Share Our Strength? We wanted this campaign to focus on the issue of childhood hunger in America and the fact that many different organizations and people were coming together to take up the cause locally and nationally.

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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

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If hunger among the elderly is on the rise nationally, share what you’re seeing locally along with a few key stats and a little about how you’re addressing the need in your community. If your organization supports families impacted by childhood cancer, figure out who the healthcare journalists are in your market. Be consistent.

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

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Check out TechSoup's Nonprofits in Second Life Delicious group page for an example of how multiple users can collaborate with social bookmarking. " UNICEF used mobile tagging technology to raise awareness of the childhood hunger and raise money. The campaign.

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