“Like” Arvest For Hunger Relief
It’s tremendous to see a community-centric lender like Arvest Bank launch a hunger relief campaign this week aimed right where help is needed – at the local level. The Fayetteville-chartered bank...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Supports Hunger Relief
The festivities have begun for McDonald's Supplier of the Year day at Tyson Foods $500K Grant Will Provide Meals to Children in Need Thursday the corporate campus at Tyson Foods celebrated being named...
View ArticleStamp Out Hunger May 14
Don't forget those nonperishable food donations this Saturday You won’t have to go farther than your own mailbox to help fight hunger this week. Saturday, May 14, is the National Letter Carrier...
View ArticleRural Pantries Face Greater Demand
A local food drive recently netted Loaves and Fishes Food Bank of the Ozarks more than 4000 grocery items. Feeding America’s recent Map the Meal Gap project showed that food insecurity in rural...
View ArticleSweet Success
Fred Gorham, back left, has his hand on Michele Gorham's shoulder. Michele Gorham got into hunger relief after seeing a Great American Bake Sale ad on the side of a Domino Sugar box. Three years later...
View ArticleTeenage Role Model
Jackie Price, left, has raised more than $15,000 for the Great American Bake Sale Jackie Price plans to be a chef someday. For now, she’s just a hero. A senior at Magruder High School in Rockville,...
View ArticleCoins for Kids Blends Service, Learning
Aleta Greer's elementary school class in Alpine, Calif., started Coins for Kids. Share Our Strength will debut a new curriculum for its Coins for Kids program in March that may “make change” in the way...
View ArticleStereotypes
Sheri Duncan, a volunteer at the Pinelake Care Center, near Jackson, Miss., says her food pantry serves many elederly people in the area. Mississippi ranks in the top ten states for food insecurity for...
View ArticleNutrition Fairs Add to Growing Hunger Synergies for Mississippi
Two recent KNOW Hunger Nutrition Fairs conducted in Vicksburg and Jackson drew 40 local organizations and more than 800 participants. The events, part of the Urban League-Tyson Foods Hunger Project...
View ArticleFood Bank Workers Should Carry Guns
Food for thought. To break into the national consciousness anymore it seems you have to either shout something divisive or unearth a scintillating scandal. Nothing chews up a month of news cycle like...
View ArticleKNOW Hunger Nashville
KNOW Hunger Nashville kicked off recently with Tyson Foods Vice President of Customer Development Paul Davis, at podium, joining, from left, Dr. Noel Manyindo of the National Urban League, State Rep....
View ArticleUpdate: We’ve been busy in Nashville!
Since the August 2013 launch of the KNOW Hunger Nashville project, we’ve been enthusiastically organizing and planning our outreach and commitment to the Nashville, Tenn. community through 2015. We’ve...
View ArticleMid-Week Hope Break
KNOW Hunger Art Contest Winners1st Place: Emily Miller, Jackie Martinez and Briana London – MLK Jr. Academic Magnet School; 2nd Place: Emma Jones – MLK Jr. Academic Magnet School; 3rd Place: Kayla...
View ArticleWhy We Do What We Do – KNOW Hunger Nashville Holds a SNAP Challenge
All along in Nashville the KNOW Hunger Nashville team and our partners have rallied around a singular cause, to raise awareness about hunger and nutrition in the Nashville area. On May 29th, we came...
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