Chances are that you have never gone to bed hungry because you did not have any food to eat. If you are like the average American you have never had to worry about where your next meal will come from. But for millions of American children this is a daily reality. The tragic problem of child hunger can seem hopeless but there are so many things you can do to help. Today I am pleased to bring you one easy way you can make a difference. I am joining forces with the ConAgra Foods Child Hunger Ends Here campaign to help children facing food insecurity.
Here is how it works:
- Purchase participating ConAgra Foods products (look for the red push pin logo) and enter the codes into the Child Hunger Ends Here widget in my side bar (look to the left). For every code entered by August 31, 2013, ConAgra Foods will donate the monetary equivalent of one meal to Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization. Basically, one code = one meal! Easy peasy!
- Allow location services or enter your zipcode when prompted. By doing so you will be submitting your local Feeding America food bank into a competition for an 80,000-meal donation! At the end of this campaign, ten food banks in the zip codes with the most entries will receive the additional donation.
- Help ConAgra Foods by completing this quick 30 second survey. Taking this survey will help ConAgra Foods gauge the effectiveness of their efforts to raise awareness and make a difference with the Child Hunger Ends Here campaign.
Several celebrities have thrown their support behind this campaign including Carly Rae Jepsen, Tori Kelly, Amber Riley, and Cody Simpson. In fact, Tori, Amber and Cody have recorded versions of an original song called “Fill A Heart.” You can download free song recordings from Cody and Amber here.
Let’s kick this effort off with a giveaway! Enter to win a $40 VISA gift card and a Tori Kelly autographed poster using the Rafflecopter form below. Also, be sure to spread the word about this campaign and enter your codes to help raise meals for children in need.
Good luck! And remember, you can make a difference!
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About Janice
I already help in my community by giving regularly to the local food banks and shelters.
What a fantastic idea! I pinned your pins everywhere!
I think I need to volunteer somewhere…
I plan on donating more to food banks and local shelters. I will also look into volunteering!
In addition to regular food bank donation, I would also donate to local shelters.
Going grocery shopping tonight, & I will definintely be on teh look out for the pin!!
I always donate whenever there is a food drive.
I donate to the local food bank.
I will donate to my local food bank.
We volunteer at the local food pantry 🙂
i volunteer and donate clothes and food to the less fortunate
I donate & volunteer to local charities
I’m part of a local charity organization that puts together fundraising events throughout the year. I also try to donate my own money and time to social and environmental causes, including child hunger and child welfare.
we already and will continue to help out at our local food pantry
We love donating food and my boys get so excited about it! I hope we can end child hunger!
we are constantly involved, we help put on events here in our community.
We like volunteering at a local pantry that serves lunches everyday.
I’ll be donating the excess from my organic fruit and veggie garden to the local food bank
I donate time at the food bank.
Thanks for the chance.
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I plan to donate to a local food bank.
I would love to donate to my local food bank or reach out to a food bank more rural than my location to help them out. Thanks for the great post .
I donate & volunteer to local charities
Plant more tree’s in the community for future generations
I volunteer tutoring underprivliged high school students and volunteering at my neighborhod homeless shelter.
I’ll pick up litter when I see it!
I plan to inform friends of child hunger
My family struggles to buy groceries. When possible I will donate food to my local food bank.
We donate to the local food pantry as often as we can.
I give to local charities
We donate food to the local food pantry and buy food for a homeless person.
I am happy to be donating food
I help to collect food for disaster victims!
Give food and money to local food bank
We do food drives throughout the year with the church, school, and scouts 🙂
I will continue to support our local church’s food pantry and the drives by the boy scouts and mail carriers.
I already volunteer at our Food Shelf – thank you.
This is a fantastic cause, I volunteer at food shelters
I donate canned food to every drive I come across, always.
I work with children with disabilities, I help my community every day
We donate canned goods through the boy scouts and various other places throughout the year.
I HAVE BEEN PUTTING IN CODES DAILY FROM THE BEGINNING , SO ALOT OF MEALS ARE ON THE WAY!!
I try to donate what I can and will continue to do so. When I can not afford to give money, I will donate Items that I have hanging around and do not really need.
I will volunteer at my local food pantry.
I plan to volunteer at our local animal shelter on adoption day
I donate food and clothing.
I provide housing and food and healthcare for two mentally ill family members. Our society has forgotten the seriously mentally ill. In our city the group homes have their water and electricity and heat shut off periodically because the payments from the state are so late or non existent. Obama where have all your promises gone?
I will support the Food Bank.
I am going to help my community in the future by volunteering at children’s school.
Love this site!
I currently and intend to continue to bring food to shelters locally, especially when a big produce order comes in to hubbys work that could go bad before delivered or bought.
I try to at least go through things at least once a month to give back. I try to give food, clothes, personal items, and toys as much as I can. There’s something that I haven’t had a chance to do in a while and that’s giving receiving blankets to our local animal shelter. I also try to take food for the animals, and buy little $1 toys when I can. I really would love to do that since I haven’t been able to lately.
we’re always having food & clothes drives at our church
By playing Santa at an assisted living facility as well as a disabled children’s home.
I deliver meals for the local church to some of the families that their van can not reach
donating to my local food pantry.
We will be devoting more time and donations to our local shelters.
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I donate food and toys to my local shelter.
I volunteer at the shelter
I donate to women and children’s shelters.
I give to Goodwill, I also volunteer at a food sharing program.
I recycle everything at the local recycling center to keep it out of the landfill.
I give to our local food pantry
I donate baby stuff and kids clothing to the Salvation Army. My husband mows yards of some of our elderly neighbors quite frequently.
by donating to my local food bank.
By donating my old clothes to the needy.
Right now we are helping run a school supplies drive.
Will volunteer at local pet shelter
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By volunteering and donating food
donate to a food bank
By volunteering and donating.
I donate every pay period to the United Way
I regularly donate to my local churches and food banks.
I’d like to teach my son volunteering as I did when I was younger!
I give all the time to my local shelter that helps battered women and children that have left the home for a fresh start.
I donate to a few local charities
We are gearing up to donate school supplies to our local charity group called Community Resource Services that helps families in need in our own community.
Are you the Nicole from ASU, early 90’s?
I plan on giving more time and a much food clothes and things we dont need to charity as possible
Donate food to my local food bank.
I will continue to volunteer at our local food pantry & contribute as well
our family contributes to and works in our community shared garden
i help my commnity by donating to the good will
I donate to my local food pantry.
i always donate .
donating clothes and toys
Volunteer at animal shelters.
Well I buy these meals very often and enter the codes for all of them. I tell my family not to throw the boxes away so I can enter them. I would like to volunteer one of these upcoming holidays or at the very least donate to the charities I support more often.
donating food to the food bank
we give to our nearby food bank
donate to a food bank!
I volunteer at my library once a month.
we like to donate canned and boxed food to our local food shelf
I donate to the local food pantry when I can and plan to start volunteering there monthly. My boyfriend and I also donate our time to the local sportsman club a few times a year- cleaning up the park and doing repairs, I’d like to get my sons started helping out too 🙂
I donate to my local food bank as well as volunteer.
Helping set up a giveaway for kids, needing help with school supplies.
Getting involved in feeding those that are homeless and providing personal necessities those in need
I like getting involved in food drives and help contribute to food banks!
I will continue making donations to our local food bank/
I plan on donating formula to a local shelter
I plan on fostering kittens
I give what I can to the Red Cross and Salvation Army. I plan to do more when I am capable of doing so. With a little one on the way it might get a bit harder, but I will still try to do my part. 🙂
i’ll donate change to local charities
I volunteer a lot at the elementary school. I help with their backpack for kids program when needed also. thank you!
I donate blood for those that need it.
I plan to donate all of our yard sale left overs to the Goodwill
Our town is getting a group of trees to plant around the courthouse and the town square. I am the first one signed up. Our town needs it because we have almost no greenery. The children of the future could use the fresh oxygen.
I plan on donating some toys for the holidays.
I work at the food kitchen on weekends and help plant, weed and pick fresh vegetables from our community garden which donates the veggies to the homeless shelter.
There’s a volunteer coffee shop/reading library a few miles away. I will donate books and my time.
Donate to the food bank.
We belong to a group called $5 a week..we all pledge to donate at least $5 a week worth of food to a local food bank. My family uses coupons and always gets deals, even if we cannot use them we donate them. Food to the food bank, toiletry items to boxes for soldiers, to a program for new borns, and more. I also crochet items and donate something at least 6 times a year
I donate to food banks and donate blood Red Cross
Thanks for the giveaway…we are volunteers for our local food bank, & support them with donations as well.
Donating clothes is one way.
Children hungry in the US. Tragic!
As compassionate as I am about hunger in other countries I believe we nee to tend to our own first.
It all starts at home you know, or at least it should…