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December 20, 2011
Pack ‘til They’re Back is a holiday campaign intended to raise awareness for the children who rely on the Feeding America BackPack Program. Over the course of the holidays, Feeding America will share the stories of families served by their local BackPack Programs. Last week, you learned about Donna and her girls, a Missouri family [...]
December 13, 2011
Pack ‘til They’re Back is a holiday campaign intended to raise awareness for the children who rely on the Feeding America BackPack Program. Over the course of the holidays, Feeding America will share the stories of families served by their local BackPack Programs. Last week, you learned about Margarita, a grandmother struggling to raise her grandsons. This week takes us to a family served by the Second Harvest Community Food Bank.
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 23, 2011
Kat Foronda, a college student in Nevada has been helping Three Square Food Bank and Feeding America get the word out about hunger (and has previously been featured on this blog). We have invited her to write some guest blog posts about hunger in America. This is the first of a series of posts she has written.
November 9, 2011
In the 18 counties served by the Houston Food Bank, more than one in four children are food insecure (26.1%). That means that more than 437,000 kids may not know where his or her next meal is coming from on a given day.
November 8, 2011
Pack ‘til They’re Back is a holiday campaign intended to raise awareness of the children who rely on the Feeding America BackPack Program. Over the course of the next two months, Feeding America will share the stories of families served by their local BackPack programs.This week takes us to a family served by Feeding South Florida.
October 13, 2011
“When production began, my charge seemed a simple one: tell the most complete story possible about hunger in America, through the lens of four children. In reality, of course, the task is anything but simple; there were nearly 16 million stories from which to choose, 16 million children in America who don’t have consistent access to food.”
Guest blogger, Ali Benjamin, shares her experience as a researcher for Sesame Street’s “Growing Hope Against Hunger” special, which aired nationally on PBS on Sunday night. She is co-author of the book The Cleaner Plate Club: Raising Healthy Families One Meal at a Time.
October 7, 2011
Guest blogger Rocio Galarza, Senior Director of Content Planning and Design for Outreach at the Sesame Workshop writes about Sesame Street’s “Growing Hope Against Hunger” special. Rocio has worked on this initiative from inception to the launch of Food for Thought and “Growing Hope Against Hunger”.
October 4, 2011
Vicki Escarra’s blog about Sesame Street’s “Growing Hope Against Hunger” special was featured on the homepage of the Huffington Post today. Read the entire post here.
