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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. Hat tip to Tyson Foods Hunger Relief 's post Hunger Twitterers ).

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I'll Text for Food

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Hunger is a serious issue in America, especially in these hard times. They are currently running a comments for food donation campaign for New York City Food Pantries. President-elect Obama pledged to end childhood hunger by 2015 during his presidential campaign. Tags: hunger.

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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! An App To End World Hunger? The New York City-based nonprofit Spare Change is developing a smartphone app that will soon launch. How this will move the needle on world hunger? All comments are publicly viewable here.

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How Skills-Based Volunteerism Creates Transformational Experiences

Connection Cafe

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. The most prominent answers were hunger, poverty, racism, education, police brutality, and pollution.

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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.

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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.

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COVID Had Devastating Consequences for Food Security. Here’s How the Media Covered It in 2020.

M+R

Although food insecurity is a global issue that receives billions of dollars in funding from governments and philanthropic organizations and regularly receives commitments from international institutions such as the United Nations, at the beginning of 2020 it was far from the minds of reporters and many Americans. About the Author.

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