Tysong Foods Hunger Relief

If the local grocery store has a special campaign such as “Buy One Get One Free” give the free item to your local food bank.
Pick the extra fruit from your trees and donate it to your local food bank.
Hold a food drive at your place of work, worship, school or ask a business you frequent to hold a food drive.
Pre-arrange to have wholesome leftovers from your big event--wedding, party, festival, etc.--picked up by your local food bank.
Have a party and ask everyone to bring bags of food rather than or in addition to gifts. A great way for children to be involved is to have them ask for food donations for their birthday. Your food bank might even be willing to let you have the party on-site at the food bank.
Volunteer your group for an afternoon at your local food bank as a team-building experience. Great for corporate departments, athletic teams, civic clubs, etc.
Volunteer at your local food bank. You can get complete information on the America's Second Harvest food bank nearest you by going to http://www.secondharvest.org/zip_code.jsp
Volunteer at your local food bank. You can get complete information on the America's Second Harvest food bank nearest you by going
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Put your social media-connected community to work, like they did in Austin with the HAM-up Tweetup.
Your community has lots of people connected via social media: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. Put the power of this community to work like they did in Austin with the HAM-up Tweetup.
Five of the most useful things you can donate for disaster relief: --- bottled water ---- granola bars --- canned meats (pop-top lids) --- peanut butter --- diapers
Take your children, school group or scout troop to the grocery store and show them how to read food labels so they can learn nutritional value and food costs. Have each of the children select some items that they would like to purchase to donate to your local food bank.
Volunteer with staff to conduct meetings regarding education and advocacy to local community groups. Projects could include speaking with groups about hunger, conducting Hunger 101 workshops, writing letters or speaking to local, state and federal politicians.
Awareness leads to action! Find creative ways to create the awareness of the hunger crisis. Have kids create coasters with hunger facts that are used around your conference table at work, in your home, or any other place you gather with people. They will be great conversation starters!
Awareness leads to action! Find creative ways to generate awareness of the hunger crisis. Have kids create coasters with hunger facts that are used around your conference table at work, in your home, or any other place you gather with people. They will be great conversation starters!
2008 Treats for Santa. Have your children leave a box of mac & cheese or other shelf stable items for Santa. Have them write a note to Santa asking him to drop the food off at the local food bank for hungry kids. Check next week’s tip for 2009 follow up activity.
Santa Delivers Food. In addition to stocking stuffers Santa leaves a bag of food with a note asking your children to please deliver this food to the food bank to help those who are hungry. Then take your kids to the food bank to donate the food and take a tour.
Food banks: Set up a Paypal account (www.paypal.com). Suggest to your stakeholders that when they make an eBay sale, they donate a portion of the proceeds to the food bank through Paypal
Turn $1.00 into $11.91 of food in this economy?Yes, it’s easy! Give $1.00 to the Northeast Iowa Food Bank and they can turn that into $11.91 of distributed food into the community. Contact your local Food Bank to see what they can do. Remember to give!
Ask your food bank for three compelling stories about hungry people in your community. Tell them to your family and friends. Find your food bank at Feeding America
Take $10 from your tax refund and send it to your local food bank. You'll never miss it, and it will go a long way toward feeding hungry people.
Check your local food bank website (food bank locator at http://feedingamerica.org/ ) and learn how you could spend 2 hrs. in volunteer service to make a difference in your community. Then do it! If your service is at the food bank be sure to get a tour!
Check your local food bank website (find your food bank at Feeding America)and learn how you could spend 2 hrs. in volunteer service to make a difference in your community. Then do it! If your service is at the food bank be sure to get a tour!
How much do you know about hunger in America? Take the Feeding America Hunger Quiz and see what you learn. What does it compel you to do?
Hunger Quiz
Ask a school aged student what they know about other students at their school who are hungry. Ask what kind of solution they could find. Ask what those students do during the summer? See what you can learn…
Registering your kids for school? Ask if your school has a back pack program. If so, find out how you can help. If not, find out how you could get one started!
Lots of folks have extra produce from their gardens this time of year. Have them bring it to the office and have a "farmers market." Donate the proceeds to your local food bank. Or, just donate the produce! (We did it. It works!)
Self Serve Farmer’s Market: Host a self serve farmer’s market at your workplace. People can bring in extra garden goods and others can shop and leave a donation for the food bank for the produce they take. A win-win for everyone! Late fall crops will be abundant very soon.
Kids are back in school! Ask a teacher if healthy afternoon snacks are needed to make sure kids aren’t going hungry. You could volunteer to bring snacks. This is extra important for those classes that do have snacks provided by classroom families. You could help provide snacks on a day to help a foo
Prior to trick or treating this year have your kids create a few notes to give to the folks that give them treats. For example: Thanks for the treat. Did you know that ___% of kids in our community depend on food from our food bank. Will you consider giving a treat to them. Contact the food bank at
Are kids still excited about wearing their costume from Halloween? Dress ‘em up and take them to the grocery store to trick or treat for canned goods for the food bank. Let them take their baskets and fill ‘em for the food bank and then deliver the purchased goods to your local food bank in costume!

TysonFoods: Heading back to DC today for @ShareStrength conference. My 10th. Always inspiring & energizing. #nkh
11/07/09
TysonFoods: RT @sharestrength: RT @billshore: strategy to end childhood hunger thru state based-collaboratives unveiled at conference, noon today #nkh
11/07/09
TysonFoods: RT @sharestrength: 100s of antihunger advocates r coming 2 Conference of Leaders this wknd! Use #nkh to tweet it up: http://bit.ly/4gq1zw
11/06/09

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