article thumbnail

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

Tech Soup

households with children under 18 experienced food insecurity that year. households with hungry children. This means many children and teens who regularly had access to nutritious meals during the school year may be hungry or undernourished over the summer, even when there are free meals available in their communities.

Feeds 78
article thumbnail

How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

Get Fully Funded

For our fictitious story, the plot is that many children only eat one meal a day — dinner. For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school. And if you can use your Core Number to share what it costs to feed that child lunch, even better! What is happening in your hero’s life?

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Slacktivism: Can Cartoons Raise Awareness or Just Make Us Feel Good?

NetWits

In an effort to raise awareness for child abuse, thousands of Facebook users changed their profile photos to one of their favorite childhood cartoon characters (full disclosure: mine was Underdog.) Most of my Facebook friends had jumped on the bandwagon by Saturday night, as you can see by the screen shot below collected from my news feed.

Awareness 199
article thumbnail

Are you celebrating Giving Tuesday? These NTEN Members are!

NTEN

Find them all at GivingTuesday.org 2-1-1 Tampa Bay Cares, Inc.

NTEN 81
article thumbnail

I'm Taking the Pledge Against Hunger, Won't You?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

PledgeToEndHunger.com , a website designed to shine a bright light on the very real problem of childhood hunger in America. One Click Feeds 140 Kids. This will provide 140,000 meals for children in Austin. That means every person who joins the movement will help feed 140 children. And You can too!

Hunger 50
article thumbnail

ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a.

ASU Lodestar Center

She was an example for me throughout my childhood, bringing me along as she volunteered at soup kitchens, with the LDS cannery, and in the Scouts. I hope to teach my own children, someday, all that I’ve learned about service and citizenship. Her service didn’t end with the Army.

article thumbnail

AWEARNESS by Kenneth Cole: Inspiring Stories About How to Make a Difference

Have Fun - Do Good

Tell me something in your childhood that you wished were different and go toward it." --Rosie O'Donnell, AWEARNESS Feeling blue? Check out the AWEARNESS blog and AWEARNESS Twitter feed too for your daily dose of AWEARNESS. "If someone says, 'I really want to serve humanity,' I'd say, 'Tell me what your dreams are.