To break into the national consciousness anymore it seems you have to either shout something divisive or unearth a scintillating scandal. Nothing chews up a month of news cycle like imaginary girlfriends, sports doping and apocalyptic gun-control debates. Old standbys such as hunger and under nourishment don’t stand a chance. Maybe if the hunger-relief community was advocating for packin’ heat [...]
Two recent KNOW Hunger Nutrition Fairs conducted in Vicksburg and Jackson drew 40 local organizations and more than 800 participants. The events, part of the Urban League-Tyson Foods Hunger Project Mississippi, provided free food and health screenings, nutritious cooking and exercise demonstrations plus access to programs for the underserved. A donation of 34,000 pounds of food kicked off the fairs. [...]
Before I go further, let me state the following is my personal opinion, not necessarily that of Tyson Foods, or anyone else in the company. I ran across a post on my Facebook news feed yesterday from Feeding America talking about their Invest an Acre partnership with Monsanto, ADM, and the Howard Buffett Foundation, in which they’re encouraging farmers to pledge an acre of their [...]
A year ago this morning, after hearing of the devastation suffered by our neighbors in Joplin, folks from several nearby Tyson Foods locations arrived on the scene to offer whatever assistance we could provide. The scene was stunning. Chaotic. Confusing. The tragedy has been well-documented. Tyson Team Members spent three weeks in Joplin, with up to six teams cooking and [...]
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, 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 [...]
Michele Gorham got into hunger relief after seeing a Great American Bake Sale ad on the side of a Domino Sugar box. Three years later she’s a Tyson Foods’ Hunger All-Star, although her first foray into fundraising was bittersweet. The owner of Cookie Central, a cookie and baked goods delivery service in North Andover, Mass., Gorham said it was actually [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Click here to cast your vote. You have until Friday at midnight to cast your vote in the Facebook poll for the foodbank from the list you think should receive a truckload of food from Tyson Foods. The three top vote getters will each receive a truckload of food within the next month to six weeks. We’ve had some great participation in [...]
$500K Grant Will Provide Meals to Children in Need Thursday the corporate campus at Tyson Foods celebrated being named McDonald’s USA’s 2010 Supplier of the Year. But there’s something even more important to cheer about. The honor was primarily earned by the enhanced cost savings, increased sustainable supply and food safety standards that our food service group is delivering. As a McDonald’s [...]
We believe one of the biggest challenges facing the hunger movement is the inability of people to recognize food insecurity in their own communities. As the recent FRAC/Tyson study on perceptions of hunger confirmed, many believe hunger is something that happens somewhere else, to someone else. We’ve begun producing a series of video testimonials from now-successful people who at one time in their lives experienced food hardship. The goal [...]
John Tyson and UofA athletes at the 2011 Lift Up America donation Photo: Wesley Hitt, University of Arkansas If you pay attention to some of the news reporting on the out-of-competition activities of college and professional athletes, you might be led to believe that most are less than model citizens. With few exceptions (often too visible), that’s just not [...]
At Tyson Foods, we’ve been involved in hunger relief for a decade now. It’s been an ongoing effort, and we’ve never really done a major “campaign.” That chages today, when we announce the launch of our KNOW Hunger campaign, focused on creating awareness for the issue. It all kicks off this afternoon with the announcement of results of a nationwide survey on Americans’ [...]
