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How is the Feeding America network responding to the Puerto Rico earthquakes?

What’s Happening?On Monday, January 6, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Puerto Rico. The next day, an even more powerful 6.4 quake hit the island, followed by a series of aftershocks....
By Paul Morello on
January 10, 2020
Disaster Response
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Holiday Food Drive Tips: Host a Successful Drive

By Ash Slupski on
December 9, 2019
This time of year, food banks and food pantries across the United States help millions of families share holiday meals. With so many families in need, hosting a food drive...
Food Donations
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Milk: the perfect drink for cookies and fighting hunger

By Paul Morello on
November 25, 2019
With National Cookie Day on December 4, a lot of folks are probably asking themselves a very serious question: what’s my favorite cookie? Ask 10 people and you’ll likely get...
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The best ways to buy in bulk through the holidays

By Erin Chase, creator of the $5 Dinners blog on
November 12, 2019
The holidays are coming! That means extra to-dos on your list and extra expenses for gifts and parties and such. It also means there will be amazing sales and prices...
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Peek inside the backpack feeding millions of kids this weekend

By Paul Morello on
October 18, 2019
It’s Friday and all your classmates are itching to get the weekend started. Just waiting for that last bell to ring. They’re already making plans – some are going to...

I was lunch shamed. This is my story.

By Rowena Norman on
October 15, 2019
You hear a lot about kids who have been lunch shamed. Kids who were treated differently – singled out, humiliated even – in the school cafeteria because their family didn’t have...
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Meet the apple farmer helping families this fall 

By Olivia Thoelke on
October 11, 2019
In the fall, our thoughts turn to golden leaves, giant pumpkins and one amazing fruit: apples. We all love biting into a crisp, refreshing apple in autumn. They're delicious, juicy...
Food Waste

16-year-old 'teen ambassador' educates kids about child hunger in America

By Paul Morello on
September 26, 2019
In America, 1 in 7 children is at risk of hunger. For one 16-year-old from New York, that’s one too many.And she’s doing something about it.Meet Jessica McCrorie. She just...
Chenier Farms of Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana

Hunger Grows in Rural America

By Jessica Schoen on
September 14, 2019
When we think about the issue of hunger, we often imagine an urban setting. But the truth is that hunger is common, and sometimes even more so, in rural areas...
Irene, the community school coordinator, talks to Elijah

Three ways you can fight school lunch shaming in America

By Paul Morello on
September 14, 2019
Imagine a little kid at school, in line for his daily lunch. He might not have eaten yet today, he might not have even had anything since he left school...
Child Hunger

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