Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2010

Life is too short to throw your professional life away on stuff you don't care about. I see this hunger for meaning in most of the people I'm privileged to meet: from the college freshman to the fresh grad to the mid-career professional and the senior executive. Like many techies, I came to the field because I loved doing tech.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

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." Food Insecurity in a Land of Plenty. Department of Agriculture (USDA). That's 3.9

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JULY 10, 2023

Example: Kids without hunger in their lives, like those now at Green Avenue Elementary, enjoy better focus at school, which leads to academic success, improved graduation rates, and more opportunities in our community and world. Example: Sam came home from Afghanistan with PTSD that threatened his family, his job, and even his life.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

New Earth Foundation “seeks to fund innovative projects that enhance life on our planet and brighten the future, furthering peace.” . The Emeril Lagasse Foundation provides grants related to nutrition and culinary education, life skills development, childhood hunger, and arts education. Areas served: Worldwide. Areas served: US.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Being a Caltech freshman makes you confident for the rest of your life: if someone cannot explain something to you, that means that they really don’t understand it! The first lecture I heard as a freshman at Caltech was delivered by Feynman on the topic of liquid helium three, and I was certain he did understand the topic!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the largest humanitarian organization in the world with a mission to end hunger. When COVID-19 hit, supply chains and borders were disrupted, cutting off millions from life-saving health and humanitarian assistance. Rewatch this session on Salesforce+.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Here at the Hub office, we have a tradition called “Hubsgiving,” where we gather with all of the nonprofits in our space to share both business and life updates, get to know each other and indulge in some great food. It sounds cliche, but it’s an important thing to acknowledge. For one, nonprofits provide a constant source of employment.

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JUNE 21, 2013

Elizabeth Nielsen — Director of Interactive Marketing, Feeding America Liz Nielsen co-leads Feeding America''s national direct marketing program — including digital media, email/web fundraising, direct mail and telemarketing.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 27, 2013

If you're most concerned about national and global issues, like worldwide hunger or cancer, look for nonprofits that are equipped for such a large challenge. When you donate wisely, your gift has the potential to make a real difference in someone's life. This can benefit the organization as much as it helps donors.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

National Food Bank Day is on September 3, 2021. Food banks have the critical job of providing meals to those facing hunger, which is no small feat. In 2020, food banks distributed 6 billion meals to those facing hunger in the United States. Reach New Heights On National Food Bank Day .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2008

Kids Against Hunger packages and ships highly nutritious, life-saving meals to starving and malnourished children in developing countries and the United States. They have packaging network with a national headquarters and satellites in 14 states and Canada. Newman's Own is, of course, a great example of this model of giving.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 1, 2009

World Food Programme's Wall Against Hunger. Sierra Club to support wilderness areas like the Giant Sequoia National Monument , Grand Canyon National Park , Everglades National Park and the Arctic National Refuge. World Food Programme to help a mother feed her child.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JULY 4, 2023

Supporting Vulnerable Populations: Empowering the Road to Independence Nonprofits, such as Helping Hand Rescue Mission , actively support vulnerable populations by fighting hunger and providing essential resources to those in need. Yet, we must ask ourselves, are these precious principles accessible to all, equally?

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The European Court of Justice has taken a landmark decision to reverse this fact of modern life. An App To End World Hunger? How this will move the needle on world hunger? That’d definitely put a dent in the $143 billion price tag that the UN Development Program estimates it would take to end world hunger.

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

Bloggers, activists and friends gathered at our office to watch The New Silver , a film about a woman in Bolivia who is fighting to build a better life for her family with the help of microcredit. Oxfam America is an international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”. He created his own nonprofit and program called “ Brae’s Brown Bags ” to help fight against hunger, probably making him one of the youngest nonprofit CEOs and founders.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

If you work for a nonprofit, there’s a good chance that you’re working on a tough problem like the achievement gap, homelessness, or global hunger. His most recent project is the expansion of a national program for helping kids build the habits of mind to be successful and happy. Why this matters for those of us in the nonprofit world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 11, 2007

The HPI is calculated by adding the country's life expectancy with its life satisfaction divided by its ecological footprint. It shows the relative efficiency with which nations convert the planet’s natural resources into long and happy lives for their citizens. He's fighting hunger. The top ranked countries were: 1.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2015

According to the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) , only one in seven children who are eligible for free or subsidized school lunches receive summer meals. The data comes from WhyHunger , a nonprofit dedicated to ending hunger. For many kids, summer means camp, the great outdoors, and best of all, no school!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Listen Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder, Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, Filmmaker, A Drop of Life. Women, Girls, Education and Global Health. listen read Jessica Prentice, Co-Owner, Three Stone Hearth: A Community Supported Kitchen.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Marisa Handler, Author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”. She quickly became a national figure with regular appearances on talk shows to discuss the problems with public education in Brazil, despite threats from teachers, administrators and even fellow students.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram. World Food Program USA: Rani’s Story. Facebook and Instagram.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Reach out to the media with a local angle on a national story. If you see a story in the national news that is relevant to your work in the local community, that can be a great time to be a resource to your local media, offering them a local story. When you write a thorough press release, you make the journalist’s life easier.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Well, I think first of all, I'm definitely a person of faith, so I pray about it, The other thing is that for most of my adult life I always had this voice in my heart that was telling me, "You really need to enact goodness. It was something that I believed in, and I really like hungered for. OK, how are you going to do that?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade? So yes, awareness around Fair Trade is growing, but it's growing slowly basically because the resources are still insufficient to tackle the job in a major national way. our budget this year is $10 million.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

There is a growing recognition, that personal success is not about solely about making a lot of money, but also giving it to charity as Ariana Huffington points out in Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder. A Crowdfunding Campaign To Save A Horse Farm.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2008

During the interview Wallis said, "The two great hungers in the world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social justice. All of life is interrelated. I watched an interesting interview on The Daily Show this week with Jim Wallis, the Editor-in-Chief/CEO of Sojourners. You can watch it here.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Because it’s not just about the issue, because let’s say you’re helping with hunger relief, well, there might be 10 organizations in your community helping with hunger relief. that’s just life. Like how would we position ourselves against another hunger-relief organization? This is what.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

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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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

I threw a Grub party at a friend's farm in rural North Carolina that was started by four friends who were living in Brooklyn, living the city life, and decided to take over the family farm in North Carolina, and have totally taken over this farm, and made it organic, selling to their neighbors, selling to their community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

It seems like an obvious observation, but it was the main thing I took away from the Presidential Forum on Service at the Service Nation Summit last night. You can read about each of their plans for service in TIME Magazine 's September 22nd second annual national service special issue. Both spoke of American's hunger to be of service.

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