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

Tech Soup

You'll hear from Marnie Webb of Caravan Studios, who will talk about childhood hunger and resources to reduce the hunger gap in your community, including WhyHunger.org and the Range app. Help youth in your community find a summer meal! Register for TechSoup for Libraries' upcoming free webinar on May 28.

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Food Bank For New York City: Working to End Hunger since 1983

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Summer Hunger , a fundraising effort to raise awareness about childhood hunger during the summer months. As one might imagine, feeding New York City is a costly endeavor, and the community has demonstrated its support for the organization again and again. “We Feeding a city of 8.3

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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.

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

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And if you can use your Core Number to share what it costs to feed that child lunch, even better! Please give so that we can end childhood hunger in India and help these children realize their full potential. In our story, the resolution would be raising enough funds to provide every school child with a nutritional breakfast and lunch.

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Escaping the Stigma: What Nonprofits Need to Help Donors Understand

NonProfit Hub

with an actual percentage, we’re feeding into an outdated donor mentality. ” I love when he rationalizes how we allow people to make millions off of selling violent video games to kids—but try to make a million curing childhood cancer and we’re parasites. Faulty donor expectations.

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I'll Text for Food

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

President-elect Obama pledged to end childhood hunger by 2015 during his presidential campaign. In response, Share Our Strength is asking people to send a text donation and hold food drives to help feed those in need. Share Our Strength is the leading national organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger in America.

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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. As a child I remember sneaking into her bureau to pin her Army medals on my chest and parade around like a soldier. Her service didn’t end with the Army.