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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

Today, we’re introducing our first Salesforce.org Impact Labs cohort on zero hunger and their work on U.S Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. We all know that hunger is a complex and growing problem. Food Insecurity.

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Feeding the World Together: Our First Zero Hunger Summit

Saleforce Nonprofit

Last week, we hosted the first ever Zero Hunger Summit during Dreamforce. Food and nutrition insecurity is growing around the world, with over 690 million people dealing with hunger. The Zero Hunger Summit was one of those spaces. So, what comes after our Zero Hunger Summit? Shifting to the Abundance Mindset.

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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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How to Run Successful Food Drives to Help Your Community

Donorbox

Forty-one million people struggle with hunger in the United States. Your community is not immune to this problem. Individuals can run food drives on their own or in conjunction with local nonprofit organizations. Many human service organizations also create […].

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Benchmarks 2024 — the Food Bank Edition

M+R

The impact of their work is so direct and so important (this is my plug to get involved with your local food bank if you aren’t already!). That, combined with the sunsetting of emergency government funding provided during the pandemic, means more people than ever are turning to their local food banks for help with food.

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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

1) From the outside, it appears that NGOs in Kenya do not have access to the traditional fundraising services that are so common here in the United States, such as a “Donate” page for processing credit cards and PayPal accounts. In the local context, Kenyan’s give an extremely high proportion of their earnings as donations (cc.

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22 Statistics About #GivingTuesday Donors Worldwide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

5) The causes that donors give to on GivingTuesday: Hunger and homelessness – 13%. Human and social services – 8%. Community development – 3%. 14) 96% regularly vote in local and national elections and 37% donate to political campaigns. Latin America and the Caribbean – 9%. LGBTQIA+ – 1%.