God’s Kitchen (Battle Creek)
Submitted by: Sharla Diaz God’s Kitchen in Battle Creek, MI, is a private, nonprofit charity that was founded in 2011. Their mission is to demonstrate the love of God, by serving hearty and nutritious meals to the poor and homeless 5 days a week. No one who comes for a meal will leave hungry. They are the first federally-designated soup [...]
The Silver Star Families of America
Submitted by Steven J. Newton The Silver Star Families of America in Clever, Missouri, has directed tens of thousands of dollars over the years to feeding homeless veterans. Many times homeless veterans are picked up at shelters and taken to Veteran Administration hospitals where they spend all day with no food. The SSFOA buys $5.00 coupon books that can only [...]
Forman High School
Submitted by Valerie Forman High School in Chicago, Illinois not only helps to feed the hungry they also help teach children about the impact of hunger. Forman High School is caring to those in need and treats everyone with care and respect.
Michael Donnell
Submitted by Sandi Sanders, Sherry Todd, and Brandon Bumgarner Michael has been acting as a Hunger All Star, by dedicating his time to get food and monetary donations for the Mid-South food bank for the past 7 years. He coordinates with local grocery stores to get them to allow food bank collection barrels in their stores which are then used [...]
Care Mission
Submitted by Robert Beard Care Mission in Lafayette, Georgia never turns anyone away. Even when they are short on supplies or donations they will always give what they can and help everyone they can.
We created this blog in 2007, with the goal of raising awareness of the issue of hunger and supporting the community of people and organizations involved in hunger relief. Early on I was excited about the potential of social media tools bringing the hunger community together. In early 2008, I created a list of those in the hunger community using [...]
Last week I wrote a post asking whether we were playing effective defense in our advocacy of SNAP, specifically when it applied to criticism of fraud and abuse in the system, and claims government safety net programs create dependency. One prominent hunger relief advocate, for whom I have an enormous amount of respect, replied that responding directly to the claim [...]
I’m not a big fan of using sports as a metaphor for life’s challenges. But since we’re coming up on the biggest U.S. sporting event of the year this weekend, please allow me to bow to the convention. Thanks to certain candidates, SNAP (formerly food stamps) has become a political football in the ongoing presidential primary. It shouldn’t be. There [...]
We created this blog in 2007, with the goal of raising awareness of the issue of hunger and supporting the community of people and organizations involved in hunger relief. Early on I was excited about the potential of social media tools bringing the hunger community together. In early 2008, I created a list of those in the hunger community using [...]
Submitted by Rachel Weathersby Smith County Baptist Association Food Pantry is located in Raleigh, Mississippi. They serve all of Smith County. They work with the Food Network in Jackson to support as many people as possible.
My wife, Ginger, has been in kind of a down mood the last couple of days. Post-holiday, too-busy, too-many-expectations, too-much-of-everything-coming-at-you blues. That’s the way she left the house this morning for her three-hour shift volunteering for a local non-profit thrift store. At the end of her shift, she called me, simply euphoric. While she was working the register, a young mother–obviously not well-heeled–with a [...]
As we near the end of 2011, those of us at Tyson Foods would like to take this opportunity to say “thank you” to those of you out there who spend your lives working toward a world without hunger. We know the job is not easy. The demands are great and getting greater. The resources are limited. The gratitude is [...]
Last week, we published part one of our interview with Sue Kerr, founder of The Pittsburgh Tote Bag Project. The organization arose from Sue’s experience as a social worker, when she accompanied clients to a monthly food distrbution at the Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank. There, she noticed the wide variety of containers people had brought to transport food home: rolling suitcases, [...]
The Pittsburgh Tote Bag Project arose from the experience of its founder, Sue Kerr, a social worker, when she accompanied clients to a monthly food distrbution at the Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank. There, she noticed the wide variety of containers people had brought to transport food home: rolling suitcases, wheeled coolers, backbacks. She also saw the struggles of those who [...]
A part of my job involves trying to get my fellow Tyson team members engaged in the issue of hunger. After all, there are 115,000 of us in 25 states. That’s a lot of potential impact. We have a very small staff to do this hunger stuff, so not a lot of bandwidth for handholding or managing programs. Our best [...]
Jackie Price plans to be a chef someday. For now, she’s just a hero. A senior at Magruder High School in Rockville, Md., Price started her own Great American Bake Sale effort at the age of 13. Four years later, she’s raised nearly $15,000 and is a four-time nominee for Share Our Strength’s GABS Leadership Award. If those efforts weren’t [...]
Thanksgiving Eat. Enjoy. Someone grew our food–no matter what we’re eating. Someone took time and energy to get it to market–no matter how much or how little it was processed. Someone prepared it for the table–whether it’s someone we love or someone we’ll never see. Be thankful for all of these people. And that we live in a country where [...]
Today we delivered the first two donations from the Facebook poll we conducted in September, in which we asked people to vote on the food bank they would support to get a truckload of food. Ten food banks were selected to be in the poll, from among the most food insecure communities in the U.S. The top three vote-getters will get a [...]
Sunday was World Food Day. And Blog Action Day, which this year, focused on food. Sunday was also the first day of Share Our Strength’s annual Conference of Leaders, which is why I’m two days late in getting my Blog Action Day post online. For sixteen years, I’ve had the privilege of working for a company that feeds people. I’ve [...]
Thank you for you for rallying your community and raising hunger awareness during Tyson’s Hunger Action Month Facebook Poll . A total of 37,941 votes were cast. Congratulations to the top three finishers! The final results are: Food Bank of the Albemarle- Elizabeth City, NC: (9,467 votes) Yuma Community Food Bank- Yuma, AZ: (9, 435 votes) Mississippi Food Network- Jackson, [...]
