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Food insecurity has soared nationwide. Student-hunger activists are adapting to the need.
Ever since I learned about Swipe Out Hunger, an organization that helps students donate meal-plan credits to classmates in need, I’ve been intrigued by its model, built on altruism and activism and some level of cooperation from colleges’ dining services.
In the last year, rates of hunger around the country have skyrocketed: Last month
Posted By: Parker Padgett February 25, 2021 @ 2:41 pm Local News, News, State
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The 22nd annual Check Out Hunger fundraiser raised a record-breaking $69,000 in donations, providing more than 276,000 meals across the Ozarks.
Dozens of local grocery stores joined Ozarks Food Harvest for the effort. Customers at the check-out line could add $1, $3, or $5 to their total and that money goes to providing meals for children, families and seniors in the Ozarks.
The fundraiser actually ended in December but the food bank had continued to receive checks from grocers through part of 2021.
You can read more with a press release below…
Take Out Hunger expands across Seacoast to help Tri-City area
DOVER When the Take Out Hunger initiative began in mid-January, organizers saw it as a near-term solution for two problems facing Seacoast communities: food insecurity and restaurants struggling to stay in business through the winter months.
Take Out Hunger is a grassroots volunteer effort that raises funds to compensate local restaurants for preparing healthy meals that are then distributed through local nonprofits to people in the community who need them.
Within a month, Take Out Hunger has provided 4,000 meals across the area since its inception. Our goal is to support local restaurants and provide healthy meals to our neighbors in need, Helen Crowe, one of the founders of Take Out Hunger, said.
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By KELLY MCCARTHY, ABC News
(NEW YORK) Local pizzerias are helping fight food insecurity by donating pies to those in need on National Pizza Day.
The Pizza Across America campaign created in 2018 by the Jersey Pizza boys Carmine, Michael and Nicky Testa with Slice Out Hunger asks pizzerias to donate at least 10 pies to their local shelters, soup kitchens and hunger action centers.
Scott Wiener, the founder of the volunteer-driven nonprofit, said “this year it’s even more critical to fight against our nation’s growing food insecurity problem.”
Pizza shops from all over the country will participate with the World Pizza Champions to support neighbors in need.
Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation.
Pizzerias Across the U.S. Unite for Simultaneous Pizza Deliveries to Shelters and Soup Kitchens on National Pizza Day
January 28, 2021 GMT
NEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE) Jan 28, 2021
In honor of National Pizza Day, pizzerias across the country will once again come together on Tuesday, Feb. 9 th to feed the hungry through the Pizza Across America campaign.
First developed by World Pizza Champions member Carmine Testa with his sons Michael and Nicky, known nationally as the Jersey Pizza Boys, and the nonprofit Slice Out Hunger, the campaign kicked off in 2018.