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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% Range allows librarians, nonprofit staff, and other "first referrers" to: Find meal sites by viewing a map of nearby free summer meal sites based on current location or searching by address. Food Insecurity in a Land of Plenty. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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A Nice Holiday Gift for School Kids Everywhere

Forum One

Okay, maybe that's not what you guessed, and maybe it's not in a literal vegetable form, but on December 13, President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Santa-belly jokes aside, childhood obesity is an escalating problem in the U.S. Site visitors can sign up as leaders in the movement or add themselves to the map.

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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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