School’s out for the summer. While you may be enjoying the non-scheduled days, warm weather, and relaxation keep in mind this alarming statistic:
During the school year, 21.5 million children rely on free or reduced-price meals to help them keep from going hungry. When school is out, only 2.3 million children participate in the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). This means there are millions of children at an increased risk of hunger during the summer. You can help by purchasing participating ConAgra Foods products and entering those codes to trigger meal donations.
In our local school district, two of our schools offer a free lunch to ALL children aged 18 and under through a Summer Feeding Program. For 1-1.5 hours, Monday through Friday for 4 weeks during the summer, kids can go have a balanced meal I think it’s wonderful. The two school marquees advertise this opportunity, if your area does the same, spread the word it may help out a family that really needs it!
I am partnering with ConAgra Foods and the Child Hunger Ends Here campaign! We want to end hunger in America and help donate up to 3 million meals to Feeding America and it’s really so easy to join us!
How can YOU help feed a child this summer?
- You can participate by looking for the red pushpin in grocery stores and purchasing specifically marked packages of 19 select ConAgra Foods brands. then visit www.facebook.com/ChildHungerEndsHere or www.ChildHungerEndsHere.com and enter the eight-digit code found on the package. For every code entered by 8/31/13, ConAgra Foods will donate the monetary equivalent of one meal to Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization. You can also enter your zip code to submit your local Feeding America food bank into a competition for an 80,000-meal donation.
- Take this SURVEY gauging your knowledge on the specifics of Child Hunger Ends Here.
- Enter you zip code at www.ChildHungerEndsHere.com to help support your local food bank. Every time you enter an 8-digit product code at ChildHungerEndsHere.com, you also have the option to submit a zip code and give your local food bank a chance to receive the monetary equivalent of 80,000 meals from the total donations.
- Locate your local food bank, http://feedingamerica.org/foodbank-results.aspx and volunteer with your family. Feeding America benefits from the unique relationship between our 202 local member food banks at the front lines of hunger relief and the central efforts of our national office.
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Securing Food |
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| Local Role: Secure food from local manufacturers, retailers, farmers and government sources. |
National Role: Secure food from large corporate manufacturers and retailers through nationwide initiatives and facilitate the acquisition of government-supplied food. |
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Raising Funds |
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| Local Role: Acquire funding from local corporate, foundation and individual donors, and utilize those funds efficiently to maximize service to people in need. |
National Role: Acquire funding from corporate, foundation and individual donors, and provide those funds as seed money to spur local innovation. |
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Distributing Food |
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| Local Role: Distribute food received from Feeding America and local sources to people in need, via a local system of agencies. |
National Role: Through a robust logistics system, distribute food donations received nationally to the food banks that need them the most. |
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Sharing Best Practices |
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| Local Role: Share wisdom with other network members and uphold the highest standards for food safety, fiscal responsibility and efficiency. |
National Role: Inspire members to implement proven programs and uphold the highest standards for food safety, fiscal responsibility and efficiency. |
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Advocating and Inspiring |
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| Local Role: Create a local movement and a sense of compassionate urgency, encouraging better government programs and inspiring individuals to take action. |
National Role: Create a national movement and a sense of compassionate urgency, encouraging better government programs and inspiring individuals to take action. |
Encourage your children by relating something they may know about: download songs from these celebrity ambassadors like Carly Rae Jepsen, Tori Kelly, Amber Riley, Cody Simpson who are lending their support to ending childhood hunger.
Find out more by connection with the Child Hunger Ends Here campaign on Twitter and on Facebook.
All opinions my own, I wrote this post as part of an Ambassador program with The Motherhood.
I don’t have any Red Push Pin items right now but I donate to the Local Food Bank every month!
I will donate more often to my church’s food pantry.
i will donate to local food pantries
I Will Spread The Word About The Need For Donations And Donate More Often!
I will help fight hunger by donating food to the local food pantry!
I will help fight hunger by donating to food drives and donating to my local soup kitchen.
I think this is a great program. Both my children and I are great supporters of our local food pantry. Our Scouting for Food program in the Spring is one of the largest in ths nation and we’ve been there several times to help out with packaging food. Last time we went was Martin Luther King Day and we got to work alongside our mayor who is also an Eagle Scout himself.
My daughter has done Scouting for Food with her troop, too! Fantastic!
I help fight child hunger by donating to local food banks each year and also by contributing to canned food drives.
I would donate to local shelters in addition to food bank.
My family donates to our church food pantry which helps feed families in the Katy TEXAS area all year. Thanks, simms3710@yahoo.com
My family donates to our food pantry
I will fight hunger by donating canned food
I can’t find any red push pin items, but I have been donating food to our local food pantry, which prepares meals nightly for kids with no meals.
the last I had was Kellogs Frosted Flakes cereal
ok,,since my husband thru that away maybe it wasnt a push pin sample,but we do donate more each month to the church food pantry
I will donate more often to our town’s food pantry
I will donate food to my Local Food Bank.
I will donate more often to local food banks
We are working on organizing an event for small groups in our church to volunteer at a local food pantry as families
I’ll stock up on non-perishable sale items so my donation dollar goes further.
I help fight hunger by donating non-pershable food items and will tell others about the campaign to raise awareness.
I buy the labels with child hunger stamped on them. Also donating to the local food shelf
I donate to our food pantry. I also will fix a extra plate at dinner and have my son take it over to our elderly neighbors.
I help by donating food cans to my local food pantry, thank you!
I can donate food to our local food bank and help out with making sure all kids in the community have something to eat.
make a donation to my local food pantry
I donate regularly to our local food bank
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I’ll fight hunger this summer by supporting my food bank’s local farmer’s market.
I entered code for the Hunts snack pack pudding
I will have to pick up some of these products when I go grocery shopping. How I fight childhood hunger is by feeding hungry kids in my neighborhood and donating to the local food bank.
I looked for the push pin but couldn’t find it, I donate by scanning the meal donation cards at my local grocery store.
I look for these codes too and enter them-I sound on Blue Bonnet spread, banquet pot pies, hamburger helper and I see the button(pushpin) on Hunts spagetti sauce but don’t see a code. I also donate by giving by clicks daily on 5 or websites.
I could not find any of the products, but I will purchase them in the future and enter my codes! What a great program! I will also donate to my local food shelf this summer to help out!
I don’t have any items at the moment, but we always donate to our local food bank to help fight hunger.
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We both donate and help out at our local food pantry. Even our 16 year old son helps out.
I will donate food.
I will collect and donate food for our local food bank
I donate to the food pantry and cook meals for my elderly neighbors.
I donate to the food pantry at the church across the street from me.
I will donate to local shelters! (;
We donate money and food to local organizations.
i’ll help hunger by donating to local food banks around my city!
I will donate to a food pantry.
I know what’s it is like to go without food.
Or to even have to worry about where your next meal with come from.
I will fight hunger this summer by donating to a local food bank and volunteering there.
We plan to donate a food to a local pantry. We’re actually gathering things now to donate.
I feed a mentally ill person and visit an elderly person in a nursing home
We donate food at our grocery store which goes to a local pantry and every time I see a senior shopping, if I have a high value or better a free item coupon I give it to them.
We have several friends that we always help if they need it
I will donate food to a local church’s food bank!
Recently I gave a bunch of cereals and canned food to a family in need.
I donate to our food pantry.
donating food to my church pantry
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I help by volunteering at our Food Shelf – thank you.
I will donate food to my local Food Bank.
We donate food to the local food pantry.
I currently do not have in Red Pin items in my pantry but will keep a close eye out at the stores so I can purchase some in the future
We give to the food pantry frequently, and I use coupons to help.
I want to fight it by sponsoring a third world child.
I’m trying to fight hunger by donating regularly to our local co-op, participating in local charity drives and fundraisers, and sponsoring children internationally.
I will fight hunger by donating food to the food bank
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i’ll donate to my local food bank
I donate to food banks in my area
I currently do not have in Red Pin items in my pantry but will keep a close eye out at the stores so I can purchase some in the future
We donate can goods to the local church.
I’ll donate the excess from my garden to the local food bank
I’m hoping when our garden produces some vegetables we can donate some to our local food bank.
I donate to the school backpack program for kids who are latchkey kids and I donate to the food bank and my daughter volunteers there also
I will help fight hunger by donating to local food banks
I donate to a local charity
I plan to donate to my local food bank.
Donate your time, your food, and after proper vetting, money if you can!
I will help by donating food to my local food bank
I will donate some canned food to the food bank.
I’ll donate to the food pantry
We are having a food drive with our American Heritage Girls this summer.
Found some on frosted flakes and hamburger helper…. We donate monthly to our local food bank
I’ll donate to the local food bank
I will donate more foods to my church’s food pantry.
i will donate to local food pantries
I will donate to the food bank!
we are growing extra in are garden for the church food bank
we donate weekly to our local food bank!
I will help fight hunger by donating to food drives and donating to my local soup kitchen.
I will donate food to those in need
we’ll be running food drives at our church
I will make an extra donation to my local food bank.
Donating at food drives
Can’t find a Red Pushpin item, but we buy the pre-assembled grocery bags of staples every time we shop then drop them in the donation box on the way out.
I used a code form Peter Pan peanut butter. Thank you!
We donate to our church which hands out food once a month.
I volunteer at a local soup kitchen – it’s amazing how many kids come in on their own during the day – we’re also trying to put together a free lunch truck for the kids in the park
We donate food to our local food pantry all the time and participate in school food drives as well.
We have food drives at our local churches.
this inspires me to donate more!
I plan on donating more to our local food bank as well as my church pantry.
We have donated to the food bank this summer.
I donate to the Girl Scouts food drive and our local food pantry as well as volunteer some weekends.
We will help fight hunger by donating money to the local food bank
We donate to all the local drives…We also have a garden that we help supply our neighbors with fresh veggies & fruits. It is afterall a community effort.
I will help by donating food to my local food bank this Summer.
We have been giving to the food pantry and will give more this month.
I have helped fight hunger this summer by donating to food pantries and local causes for food donations.
i will donate to a local food pantry.
I will donate to the food pantry. I try to do it once a month 🙂
I will help by giving food to our food bank
Sad to say, my husband and I both work full time and struggle every week to by groceries.
I donoate to food drives.
I get codes from Banquet macaroni and cheese.
i love to coupon for great deals on food and donate to pantries 🙂
we have a community vegetable garden that anyone in need can get what they need
I fight hunger by donating almost all the free food I get from couponing to my local church and sometimes to homeless shelters.
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I fight hunger by giving to my local food pantry.
We donate to the food pantries throughout the year. I think it teaches my kids to give back
I will help fight hunger this summer by continuing to donate to my local food bank.
I will donate to the food pantry
i will try to donate to food banks
I always donate to my church’s food pantry and also the local food bank.
In June, we collected over 300 pounds of food for our local food bank. We also helped provide and serve food for a week of lunches to low income families in the area. We were able to feed over 100 people a day on each of the 5 days. We will continue to donate to our local food bank.
I entered a code from a Blue Bonnet spread.
I will continue making donations to our local foodbank.
I’ll be helping this summer once a month at the local food pantry with set-up, clean up, and passing out donations. I also donate what I can 🙂
We like to help out by contributing to the food back.
I’ll donate to the local food bank
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I will help fight hunger by donating items I receive while couponing to local shelters and need based programs!
I’ll help fight huger by donating to my local food panty and school buddy backpack program.
I will give money to a food bank. They usually raise money at our supermarket.
Thanks for the giveaway…we support our local food bank year-round i.e. donations & volunteering each month.
we drop non perishables in a drop box at our local grocery store
I’d try to give food to the food banks and then volunteer.