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Child Hunger Platforms
Share Our Strength• Creating public-private
partnerships at the state and city level to map out comprehensive, measurable plans to end child hunger in those areas.
• Building public awareness about the problem of childhood hunger and solutions to end it.
• Investing in communities with grants to organizations whose work improves access to nutritious foods or that educate families about such programs.
• Educating children and families about nutritious, affordable eating.
Share Our Strength Corporate Partners
Share Our Strength’s Cook Matters and Shopping Matters
• Cooking Matters: provide cooking and nutrition classes to low income families to educate how to eat healthy on a budget.
• Shopping Matters: ConAgra and Wal-Mart partnering to provide tours of grocery stores with the concepts of being aware of a budget, reading a food label, and getting the best nutrition for the dollar.
Shopping Matters
Cooking Matters
Cooking Matters and Shopping Matters Article
Partnering With
Child Hunger Ends Here
• Reaching out to schools and families to participate in food drives
• Collecting food items and ConAgra UPC codes
• Goal of one million meals per month for children.
Child Hunger Ends Here Website
SupermarketGuru interview with executive director of ConAgra Foods Foundation
Partnering With
Sodexo Foundation: STOP Hunger
• Provides free lunches during summer months to children.
• STOP Hunger scholarship opportunities for young people spreading the word about childhood hunger
• Food Donations and “Servathon” conducted by Sodexo employees
• Backpack Food Program• Campus Kitchens Project- College
students preparing and delivering food to those with food insecurities
Sodexo Foundation Website
Chiquita Joins Arby’s Foundation to give to
Share Our Strength• Arby’s Foundation has pledged to
contribute $1 million to Share Our Strength’s No Child Hungry.
• Chiquita partnered with Arby’s and will be offering Chiquita apple bites with strawberry yogurt dip with Arby’s new kid’s meal options.
Arby's Foundation
Chiquita Joins the Arby's Foundation Mission to End Childhood Hunger in America
Share a Slice of Hope• Donations accepted in stores.• Place for donations when ordering
online.• People who play games such as
FarmVille and CityVille on Zynga.org can make donations to the cause.
Pizza Hut Launches Share a Slice of Hope
Feed The Beat• Musical artists can direct people
through social media to a donation page where proceeds go to the World Food Programme
• Tweet example: “$1 feeds 4 hungry children 1 meal per day.”
Feed The Beat Website
Feed The Beat Artist Lineup
Huddle to Fight Hunger
• Mission to donate 25 million meals to Feeding America
• For every scoop of Baskin Robbin’s October flavor of the month “Trick-Oreo-Treat,” BR’s will donate one meal.
• Baskin Robbin’s made an initial donation of 500,000 meals.
Baskin-Robbins joins Kraft Article
Food for Thought: Eating Well on a
Budget• A special episode of Sesame Street
will air entitled “Growing Hope Against Hunger.” New character, Lily, will address hunger issues with cast members, visit a community garden and get food from and volunteer at a food pantry.
• Wal-Mart gave a $1.5 million grant to provide screenings of the Sesame Street episode and distribute 35,000 Food for Thought resource kits.
• “Food for Thought: Eating Well on a Budget is a bilingual, multimedia program designed to help support families who have children between the ages of 2 and 8 and are coping with uncertain or limited access to affordable and nutritious food. “
Food For Thought Toolkit
CBS News Press Release about Episode
Pound for Pound Challenge
• For every pound of weight loss pledged, Pound for Pound Challenge will donate 11 cents to Feeding America which is equivalent to one pound of food.
• This donation is distributed among the 200 food banks in the Feeding American network.
Pound For Pound Challenge Website
Nourishing Our Neighbors
• “Committed to making a positive impact in the areas of hunger relief and obesity through product donations, signature programs, and local partnerships.”
• Have donated $19 million in product to support 25,000 charities in 2010.
Listing of Campbell's Hunger Programs
Bar Hunger• Comedian, Jim Gaffigan,
supporting cause• Consumers can text the code
inside of Snickers wrappers or entering the code on the Snickers website. Each code entered will result in two meals donated to Feeding America.
Jim Gaffigan Bars Jokes for Hunger Cause