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Try Eating for $4 a Day. Join The Hunger Challenge

Have Fun - Do Good

I didn't, until I read about the San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger Challenge. Last year, 6 food bloggers and recipe developers tried to eat 3 meals on $3 per day during the 2008 San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger Challenge. For a local perspective, peruse the list of food bank blogs. food bank hunger food stamp blogger

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Member Round Up: We're Up To All Good!

NTEN

Featured in this week’s round up are discounted conference registrations and new fundraising tools. NTEN members are even using The Hunger Games buzz to educate about real world food and water issues. Oh, and let’s not forget using GIS technology to better connect localities with programs and services. Have more news to share?

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

It’s time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news again! Team Confufish Royale from Australia developed an app called Foodbank Local that allows businesses to easily donate excess food. An App To End World Hunger? How this will move the needle on world hunger? Very sophisticated for a student team.

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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.

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How Skills-Based Volunteerism Creates Transformational Experiences

Connection Cafe

One of my core values, both personally and professionally, is to give back to my local community. One of those organizations is the YWCA of the City of New York (YW), a nonprofit organization that offers job training, daycare, and after-school programs to New York City women and their families.

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GivingTuesday 2018 Scales Generosity and Kindness to New Highs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to MarketWatch , the grassroots web-based global movement past $1 billion in total online donations since it was launched seven years ago by the 92nd Street Y in New York City. . People contributed more than $125 million on Facebook , up from $45 million in 2017, using the network’s new fundraising tools. .

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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

The Emeril Lagasse Foundation provides grants related to nutrition and culinary education, life skills development, childhood hunger, and arts education. Our grants are awarded to schools, local music programs, and national music programs.”. Areas served: Boston, Hartford, New York City, Providence, Washington, D.C.