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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

Today, we’re introducing our first Salesforce.org Impact Labs cohort on zero hunger and their work on U.S We all know that hunger is a complex and growing problem. Getting to zero hunger will require unprecedented collaboration and a multi-pronged approach that gets to the numerous causes. Food Insecurity.

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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

The statistics on hunger in America are startling: 14.5% "Food insecurity" means that, at some point in the year, a household lacked access to enough nutritious food to support an "active, healthy life for all household members. The Range mobile app helps address that awareness problem.

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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. Bloggers have helped raised awareness of this important issue. President-elect Obama pledged to end childhood hunger by 2015 during his presidential campaign. Tags: hunger. Or write a blog post like Chris Brogan and start retweeting it!

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December. But donating money to a charity, even a small amount (or in-kind items ) can certainly help with part of the need and raise awareness in others. October is also breast cancer awareness month, so why not make a donation ?

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Tagging can be a great activity for volunteers, as it provides an opportunity to volunteer virtually by adding tags to the digital content your organization has on photo or video sharing sites such as Flickr and YouTube. " UNICEF used mobile tagging technology to raise awareness of the childhood hunger and raise money.

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Cause Marketing or Cause Me To Puke Marketing? Interview with Scott Henderson

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

2) Can you tell me about the "Pledge to End Hunger" that you recently launched to benefit Share Our Strength? We wanted this campaign to focus on the issue of childhood hunger in America and the fact that many different organizations and people were coming together to take up the cause locally and nationally.

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[Guide for Nonprofits]: How to Engage Social Media Influencers to Extend Your Reach and Drive Action

Connection Cafe

The number of likes, followers, shares, active social networks, and dozens of other interactions can determine how likely it is that a person, or brand, can influence others to take action. They emailed their advocates social media toolkits with drafted messages and images to help raise awareness about the campaign.