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January 31, 2012
Howard G. Buffett joins Feeding America President and CEO Vicki Escarra in this response to the Wall Street Journal’s recent article, The Myth of the Starving Americans. As of today, this response has not yet been accepted for publication by the Wall Street Journal. To The Editor: The Myth of Starving Americans by Warren Kozak (Jan.30, 2012) [...]
January 10, 2012
Atlanta Community Food Bank’s Executive Director recently received the phenomenal honor of being named GeorgiaTrend’s Georgian of the Year.
December 12, 2011
Our member food banks work hard in their mission to end hunger, constantly using innovative efforts to reach more advocates. Social media has become a well-used tool for many food banks. The following article from PRWeek focuses on the Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana’s recent social media work.
December 1, 2011
President and CEO Vicki Escarra contributed to the Huffington Post her response to the negative commments from the piece that ran yesterday in the New York Times about increase free school lunch participants.
November 30, 2011
Today, the New York Times reported there has been an increase in participation in free school lunch programs. Many of the new participants come from families that have been directly affected by the recession.
November 7, 2011
The Census Bureau measures the number of Americans who live below the poverty threshold. This measurement has been around since 1969 and is based on income. There has been little change to how this number is measured since it was introduced.
October 31, 2011
Choose the latter this Halloween by donating food to your local food bank. Plenty of folks around the country are combining food drives with holiday-inspired festivities, officially making Halloween another day to do some good. Here are two events that caught our attention at Feeding America.
October 26, 2011
Jilly Stephens is the Executive Director of City Harvest, a member of Feeding America. Her organization was featured in Sesame Street’s special Growing Hope Against Hunger.
October 19, 2011
I have many more years of work left before I am eligible (or even ready) to retire. But I have to admit that it scares me.
October 14, 2011
Sesame Street producers reached out to the Community FoodBank of New Jersey for assistance creating their new special, Growing Hope against Hunger.
