We met Spencer Tillman through our friends at Lift Up America.  If you’re much of a college football fan, you know who Spencer is.  As lead studio analyst for CBS sports, he’s visible every autumn Saturday afternoon, wherever there’s a “big game,” moving into his current role after a distinguished career in college and pro football.   But when he’s not [...]

By Elise Mitchell As Ed mentioned in his post earlier this week, the donation last Saturday to the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank received a lot of positive media coverage and helped bring to light the hard work of many volunteers.  We’ve posted some of those stories here from our local TV stations KFSM, KHOG and KNWA and appreciate their coverage [...]

    UofA student athletes help distribute more than 40k lbs. of food to NW AR hunger relief agencies By Ed Nicholson When athletes make the news, it’s usually for one of two reasons: Either they’re excelling on the field or messing up in public. What a lot of people don’t realize–and what  doesn’t get reported often enough–is that most [...]

By Ed Nicholson     Austin athletes unload a truckload of food to agencies of CAFB   One of the most fulfilling things about being involved in hunger relief is the opportunity to work with some fantastic partners.  We’ve talked a lot about our friends at  Share Our Strength and Feeding America.  But one group that doesn’t get mentioned as [...]

Here’s a collection of video from the 2009 Lift Up America donation with the University of Arkansas Razorbacks.   89 student athletes, 39 northwest Arkansas non-profit agencies, a 35 lb. truckload of Tyson products came together on one clear, cold Ozark Saturday morning.  It was fun and rewarding.

Lieu R. Smith from Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry in Berryville, Arkansas. Lieu is one of thousands of people who work at ground level in the fight against hunger.  His food bank feeds four to five hundred families a month.

Rodger Hunter, the Student Life Coordinator for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks athletic program is a heck of a guy.  Rodger works hard to get student athletes involved in the community. To put them in places where they need to be, and keep them out of places they don’t. Today, Rodger helped bring an amazing 85 Razorback athletes to Don Reynolds [...]

Most folks around Arkansas know London Crawford as being an outstanding receiver, and part of what has been known as the "play of the year," a 24-yard touchdown pass in the last 22 seconds, that pulled Arkansas ahead of LSU in the final game of the 2008 season. But today, London made another outstanding play, interviewing a member of an agency of [...]

University of Arkansas football players helping donate 35K lbs. of Tyson products at a Lift Up America donation, January 24, 2009.

David Cook, who volunteers with the Decatur Christians in Action food pantry talks about the great need in a small community.

By Ed Nicholson     A cold morning at Don Reynolds Stadium Today we’re live-blogging from the University of Arkansas’s Don Reynold’s stadium, where we’re partnering with the Arkansas Razorbacks, and Lift Up America to distribute a truckload of Tyson products to agencies of the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank. We have Tyson chairman, John Tyson, UofA athletic director, Jeff Long, Dave Hannah, [...]

By Ed Nicholson   We had a great event in Chicago Monday, where Tyson Foods, Feeding America and Lift Up America were joined by the Chicago Bulls and the Chicago Food Depository in announcing the donation of one million pounds of Tyson products to some Feeding America food banks to help them get through the holiday season.  That sounds like [...]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Dec. 7, 2007 – Hungry people in Kansas City will get some help from Lift Up America, the Kansas City Chiefs and Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE:TSN) thanks to a donation from Tyson Foods at an event on Dec. 11. Chiefs players will help unload a truck containing more than 30,000 pounds of protein products to be [...]

                                       Lift Up America and the Detroit Lions  teamed up with Tyson Foods to help bring a truckload of food to Detroit’s less fortunate on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007.   Players for the Lions were on hand to help unload the food and participate in the event.  Gleaners Food Bank and Here’s Life Inner City also helped [...]