World
Food Day is a worldwide event designed to increase awareness, understanding
and informed, year-around action to alleviate hunger. It is observed each
October 16th in recognition of the founding of the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) in 1945. The first World Food Day was in 1981. In the United
States the endeavor is sponsored by 450 national, private voluntary
organizations.
Church
World Service Crop Walks raise money for local
hunger-fighting agencies as well as the international relief and development
efforts of Church World Service.
Trees
For Life helps plant fruit trees in developing
countries. These trees provide a low-cost, self-renewing source of food for many
people and protect the environment.
National Youth Service Day (NYSD) is the
largest service event in the world, engaging millions of young Americans and
focusing national attention on the amazing leadership of young people. National
Youth Service Day is also an opportunity to recruit the next generation of
volunteers while promoting the benefits of youth service to the American
public. Next year's event will be held April 11 - 13, 2003.
Freedom From Hunger invests in the
determination of a mother to help her children. Serving women who live in poor,
rural areas, they provide practical information on how to better nourish
children, keep families healthy, and grow a microenterprise into a flourishing
business.
SERVEnet
is the premier website on service
and volunteering. Through SERVEnet, users can be matched with organizations
needing help.
Food First The Institute for Food and Development Policy (better known as
Food First) is a member-supported, nonprofit 'peoples' think tank and
education-for-action center.
The Hunger Site Click a button to make a free donation of food to hungry people around the
world. Advertising sponsors pay for your donation, which you can make once per day.
Hunger
Web This Brown University site helps prevent and eradicate hunger by
facilitating the free exchange of ideas and information regarding the causes
of, and solutions to, hunger.
Bread for the World A Christian voice for ending hunger whose 44,000 members
contact their senators and representatives about legislation that affects
hungry people in the United States and worldwide.
Oxfam International An international
group of 11 autonomous non-government organizations that share the commitment
to working for an end to the waste and injustice of poverty.
American Red Cross An online resource for finding out about the American Red Cross,
locally, nationally, and worldwide.
America's Second Harvest Their mission is to feed hungry people
in America by soliciting and distributing food and grocery products through a
nationwide network of certified affiliate food banks and to educate the public
about the nature of and solutions to the problem of domestic hunger.
MSU Master Gardener Program Applicants attend
classes in their county, learning basic horticultural principles and
environmentally sound gardening practices. They then provide a minimum of
40 hours of volunteer service to their community.
Food Research and Action Center Working to improve public policies to eradicate hunger and under nutrition in the
United States by serving as the hub of an anti-hunger network of thousands of
individuals and agencies across the country.
Hunger Action Coalition of Michigan Mobilizes all segments of
society to actively shape a just society relative to food and nutrition.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Works to alleviate
poverty and hunger by promoting agricultural development, improved nutrition
and the pursuit of food security - the access of all people at all times to the
food they need for an active and healthy life.
World Hunger Year (WHY) supports and promotes
innovative, long term solutions to hunger through self-reliance, economic
justice, community building and food security.
RESULTS is a non-profit, grassroots citizen's lobby that identifies
sustainable solutions to the problems of hunger and poverty, in our world and
in the U.S., and works to generate the resources necessary to make those
solutions succeed.
Waste Not collects
unsaleable, commercially prepared food from hotels,
resorts, restaurants, caters and food brokers and provides hungry people a wholesome,
nutritious meal.
United
Against Hunger is an invitation to humanitarian organizations, faith-based
groups, corporations, service clubs, schools, individuals and any group with an
interest in addressing hunger - to come together under a common banner.
The
Rice Raiser is a youth mobilized community event
designed to feed the hungry both in our own community and in developing
countries at the same time.
The Society
of St. Andrew: Gleaning America's Fields; Feeding America's Hungry. We
feed the hungry all year long by saving fresh produce that would otherwise go to
waste and giving it to the needy through our three operating programs, the
Potato Project, the Gleaning Network, and Harvest of Hope.
HungryKids.org
is a not for profit grassroots organization dedicated to raising awareness for
world hunger and poverty relief.
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