Map the Meal Gap cheat sheet: Everything you need to know

March 23, 2011

I’m here in DC, working away getting ready for tomorrow’s release of Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap research. The energy here is truly inspiring, I can’t wait to observe and be a part of the impact the research will make. I am excited to talk with webcast viewers tomorrow on Twitter and to see everyone’s first reaction to their county, state and national food insecurity numbers.

For those of you joining the webcast or talking about the research in any capacity, we want to make it easy for you to be a fully informed Map the Meal Gap expert. Whether you communicate with your friends and family by email, Facebook, Twitter, your own blog, or even, yes, I’m aware this still happens, by phone, in person or over Skype, please consider this post to be your Map the Meal Gap information cheat sheet.

Details

 
The Thursday, March 24, 2011 event features Howard G. Buffett, Feeding America President and CEO Vicki Escarra, John Lewis of The Nielsen Company, Craig C. Gundersen lead researcher and representatives of the Feeding America network.

2:00 – 2:30 p.m. EST    Map the Meal Gap Press Conference
2:30 – 2:45 p.m. EST    Q and A Session post press conference
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. EST    Video on Hunger in America
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. EST    Map the Meal Gap Summit

The research, Interactive Map and webcast will be available at 2:00 p.m. EST tomorrow, March 24.
 

All the links, handles and hashtags you need

 
Share a link to the live webcast

Share the Feeding America Interactive Map directly

Facebook

Please use the @ sign before typing Feeding America in your Facebook posts to create a hyperlink to the Feeding America Facebook page.

Twitter 

Please use #mealgap and the @FeedingAmerica handle in all of your related tweets.

Speaker information

 Happy social networking and we’ll see you tomorrow on the webcast!

Posted by Emily Basten on March 23, 2011 at 5:35 PM in Hunger in the News, National Initiatives
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I am also here in DC preparing for the Map The Meal Gap event. I am the Community Food Systems Manager for Oregon Food Bank. For the past three years, OFB has been engaged in a community food systems assessment and organizing project with AmeriCorps volunteers from the RARE program at the University of Oregon. So far we have worked in 17 of Oregon’s 35 counties. MMG is important because not only does it document hunger and food insecurity in this country, but it also begins to tell the story of compromised food access that is faced by far too many rural communities today. Hundreds of farming, ranching and fishing communities across our country no longer have access to the very foods they produce for the rest of the world. Residents of these communities may travel a hundred miles or more to access the mainstream food system that most of us take for granted. Hopefully this study will help catalyze a discussion of the solutions needed to return access to the foods that these communities take so much pride in producing and to the food system in general.

Posted by Sharon Thornberry | March 24, 2011 at 9:05 AM

This a very important look at our current crisis with hunger in this country. The face of hunger has changed and includes many people who never thought they would have to rely on a food pantry for assistance. Some of these new families previously were donors of volunteers. Their view of hunger has been changed dramatically.

Posted by Bob Littmann | March 24, 2011 at 12:24 PM

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