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

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The statistics on hunger in America are startling: 14.5% 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. Food Insecurity in a Land of Plenty.

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Mobile Tech Connects Kids to Summer Meals

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It uses GPS and mapping technology to show the distance between the user and nearby meal providers. The data comes from WhyHunger , a nonprofit dedicated to ending hunger. It functions sort of like Yelp, Urban Spoon, or other meal locator apps. Librarians can't provide social services, but they can connect people to them.

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Simplifying nonprofit strategic planning for beginners 

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Nonprofit strategic planning often gets a bad rap, but time spent mapping out your organization’s future can save you from spinning your wheels, being busy but not effective. Eradicating hunger in your community is not a goal. Serving as many teens as possible through your youth program is not a goal. It’s a vision.

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Stellar year-end fundraising strategies for busy nonprofit leaders

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Here are some sample end-of-year fundraising campaign themes : Let’s Make Hunger History. Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. Map out how you plan to share your stories via social media, email marketing, your website, and your snail mail appeal so that you get maximum value for each story you tell.

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