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High School Heroes

Mar 11, 2010 5:59am

By Ed Nicholson Last fall, Tongal.com and Tyson Foods announced a collaborative effort to raise awareness for hunger relief in America through a video contest. Thanks to Lorraine Arromando’s video highlighting Cheverus High School’s annual Thanksgiving food drive, Tyson Foods donated more than 35,000 pounds of chicken to the Good Shepherd...

"Jeans Days" and the concept of indulgences

Mar 5, 2010 3:27am

By Ed Nicholson Today's a "Jeans Day" at Tyson Foods Corporate HQ. For five bucks, we can violate the company's dress code sans guilt, and wear denim. The money goes to a good cause. A couple times a year it's hunger relief; today it's the local chapter of Big Brothers, Big...

We Can End This

Mar 4, 2010 1:22am

Today, Tyson Foods joins a great cast of partners in the launch of WeCanEndThis.com, a yearlong initiative to spark innovation and a broader engagement in the movement to end hunger in America. Please go to WeCanEndThis.com to learn more about this bold effort. While you're there, you can take the first step...

Food insecurity in an insecure world

Feb 22, 2010 11:55pm

By Andrea Sherwood Does food insecurity impact peace and war or the choices children face? Share your thoughts. Let’s have a discussion as uncomfortable as it will be as we sip on our coffee, tea, soda or beverage of choice while we blog and “engage” from a distance. After reading, Ishmael Beah’s,...

Do you value your true assets?

Feb 17, 2010 5:19am

By Susan Brockway New numbers have just been released and as expected, the number of people lacking food continues to grow. At the food bank for which I'm board president, we look at each and every dollar closely and wonder what to do to make it stretch. Volunteers obviously are essential...

Interview with a food pantry director

Feb 16, 2010 12:13am

We recently ran into Jack McConnell, who helps run the food pantry at the First Christian Church, Disciples of Christ. His agency was among the fifty receiving food at the University of Arkansas/Tyson/Lift Up America event in late January. Jack's agency served more than 10,000 people last year. Here he discusses how the need...

Food banks--Putting your agencies on the map

Feb 1, 2010 1:18am

View Tyson Foods Hunger Relief Donations in a larger map Here's a Google map I created on Friday of the truckload donations Tyson has done in the past year. Notice all of the icons are clickable for more information. You can zoom in to the street address (with apologies to those...

Good news

Jan 28, 2010 11:06am

By Elise Mitchell As Ed mentioned in his post earlier this week, the donation last Saturday to the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank received a lot of positive media coverage and helped bring to light the hard work of many volunteers. We’ve posted some of those stories here from our local TV...

Hunger Twitterers

Jan 28, 2010 7:22am

We started this Twitter list over a year ago with names of peope who have been active (online or offline) in the discussion of hunger. Since then it's grown as more and more people find Twitter a valid way to bring the community online. From time to time, I'll re-tweet...

Hunger Organizations with Facebook Presence

Jan 25, 2010 4:02am

Facebook is the social media channel of choice for a huge and growing segment of our population. Communications-savvy hunger relief organizations are getting on board, opening the channel to their stakeholders. I did a quick scan across the interwebs and found a few hunger orgs with Facebook presence. URLs are posted below in...

Making some great plays off the field

Jan 25, 2010 2:37am

UofA student athletes help distribute more than 40k lbs. of food to NW AR hunger relief agencies By Ed Nicholson When athletes make the news, it's usually for one of two reasons: Either they're excelling on the field or messing up in public. What a lot of people don't realize--and what doesn't...

Plaque Attack

Jan 22, 2010 1:16am

By Ed Nicholson We get lots of plaques at Tyson Foods for being a donor. Plaques, trophies, plexiglass awards. Nice gestures from organizations who do tremendous work in their communities. But managing them can become an issue. There’s not enough room to display them, and they’re eventually discarded. So really, folks, save...

A Souper Reason to Get Involved in Hunger--Feeding Folks in Austin

Jan 12, 2010 9:41am

By Ed Nicholson In August of 2008, we did our first social media engagement donation with the Capital Area Food Bank in Austin. There weren't many such efforts going on at that time (a lot since). It's been cited as a case study several times, and since then, we've considered CAFB...

The Power of Giving

Jan 5, 2010 6:31am

Students from the '09 Las Vegas Student Food Drive By Susan Brockway At Tyson Foods, we recently wrapped up our third year of sponsorship of the Student Food Drive. For food banks and families at risk, it is now time to evaluate if this was a success or a program that did...

The Advance of the Great Recession

Dec 30, 2009 4:00am

Lest anyone think our friends in the hunger relief community exaggerate when they talk about how tough things are in the current economy: Latoya Egwuekwe has produced a multimedia map, showing the advance of unemployment, county-by-county, since Janurary, 2007. Above is what's posted on YouTube, but for a better view of...