Share$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 [...]
Share It’s tremendous to see a community-centric lender like Arvest Bank launch a hunger relief campaign this week aimed right where help is needed – at the local level. The Fayetteville-chartered bank started its “1 Million Meals” effort Monday. It’s an incredible pledge to leverage funds and food during the next two months to create one million meals for the [...]
ShareBy Ed Nicholson I’m one of the lucky ones. I have a tremendous family, good health, and live in the best country in the world. Lots for which to be thankful. I also have one of the best jobs in the world. Every day, my job reminds me of how thankful I should be. You see, neither I nor any [...]
Share Arkansas—our home state—ranks 11th in the U.S. among states for total agricultural production. Lots of food produced here. Yet according to the USDA’s Economic Research Service, it ranks #1—worst—among states with the highest percentage of children at risk of hunger. Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe thinks it’s time something is done to erase that paradox. That’s why he [...]
We started this Twitter list almost two years ago with names of people who have been active (online or offline) in the discussion of hunger. Since then it’s grown as more and more people and organizations find Twitter a valid way to bring the community online. See the list [...]
Share By Ed Nicholson The second stop of my mini-tour last week was in Bloomfield, Connecticut, where Scott Henderson and I visited Foodshare foodbank to help fulfill the donation brought about by lots of Connecticut people engaging in the WeCanEndThis.com digital can drive. We were also privileged to see Darryl Ohrt, whose company Humongo played a big role in the success of [...]
Share Last fall, Tongal.com and Tyson Foods announced a collaborative effort to raise awareness for hunger relief in America through a video contest. Sonny Geha, a recent graduate of Michigan State University, entered the contest with his video highlighting the Mid-Michigan Food Bank. Geha’s video was selected as one of the top five, and as a result, Tyson Foods donated [...]
Share By Ed Nicholson Dede Peters had an idea. Dede, owner of Fayetteville’s ddp gallery, decided to recruit artists from among the community she had helped support to create works of art on and with grocery bags. The works were then sold, with the major portion of the proceeds going to the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank. Dede called us to see if we [...]
Share By Ed Nicholson Last fall, Tongal.com and Tyson Foods announced a collaborative effort to raise awareness for hunger relief in America through a video contest. Thanks to Lorraine Arromando’s video highlighting Cheverus High School’s annual Thanksgiving food drive, Tyson Foods donated more than 35,000 pounds of chicken to the Good Shepherd Food-Bank this morning. This is the first of [...]
ShareView Tyson Foods Hunger Relief Donations in a larger map Here’s a Google map I created on Friday of the truckload donations Tyson has done in the past year. Notice all of the icons are clickable for more information. You can zoom in to the street address (with apologies to those recipients whose addresses I didn’t nail precisely–I did this [...]
Share 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 [...]
Share 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 [...]
Share By Ed Nicholson In August of 2008, we did our first social media engagement donation with the Capital Area Food Bank in Austin. There weren’t many such efforts going on at that time (a lot since). It’s been cited as a case study several times, and since then, we’ve considered CAFB a great partner. As I’ve said many [...]
Share Erma Smith Erma Smith is more than a tireless advocate for the hungry. She’s also an inspiration and a role model in her determination to feed her neighbors. For 25 years, she has been active in fighting hunger, making her a natural to be named our newest Tyson Foods Hunger All-Star of the Month. Erma began as a [...]
ShareBy Ed Nicholson … a billion people go hungry each day. We need a breakthrough that is demonstrable, public, clear and convincing that can mobilize the public’s hearts and minds and that can demonstrate success…the lives of the billion poorest people depend on it.” (Statement by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in the Guardian News.) We at Tyson Foods are proud to [...]
