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🎁 12 Days of Giving: Hunger Doesn’t Take a Holiday 🎁 As the holidays approach, it's a time for joy, reflection, and generosity. But for many families on Long Island, the season brings the challenge of putting food on the table. At Long Island Cares, we’re here every day—because hunger doesn’t take a holiday. Through our 12 Days of Giving, we’re inviting our community to help create a hunger-free holiday season for families in need. 💡 Your Impact: Every contribution brings us closer to ensuring no neighbor faces hunger alone. Let’s make this season brighter for everyone. Join us: https://buff.ly/3Znzdl0 #12DaysOfGiving #HungerFreeHolidays #LongIslandCares #CorporateSocialResponsibility #EndHunger #CommunityImpact #SeasonOfGiving

It's important we provide food resources to homeless and at-risk youth to ensure a healthy lifestyle where they can focus in school or at their job. We are partnering with the community to bring our food pantry to them. We designed our pantry of non-perishable foods so youth living on the streets, in cars, motels, couch-surfing, etc. have access to food for their environment. 1 in 5 children across America don't have enough to eat. They have to make tradeoffs between buying groceries or paying bills. We want to bridge that gap with our Food Security program. Help us to ensure no youth experiencing homelessness goes without food. 💚https://lnkd.in/gN_zdAwY 💚https://lnkd.in/g7NEWXCj  #FoodSecurity #nokidhungry #resources #youth #homeless #bayarea #BASEyouthservices #BayAreaSocialEmpowerment

This post highlights the upcoming All-Star Giveback event at Eastern Market Shed 5 on November 26. Now in its 27th year, this event serves as a symbol of unity in addressing food insecurity, especially crucial during the Thanksgiving season. It emphasizes the importance of coming together to support vulnerable communities, showcasing the impact of solidarity in fighting hunger. In a world where disparities exist, where abundance and scarcity coexist, collaborative efforts like the All-Star Giveback can bring about significant change. By joining forces with this initiative, we not only acknowledge food insecurity but actively work towards solutions, ensuring crucial assistance reaches those in need, particularly during critical times like the holidays. Let's unite and create a positive impact by supporting initiatives like the All-Star Giveback, fostering a society built on justice and compassion for all. Together, we can make a difference and contribute to a community that stands strong against hunger. #FightHunger #CommunitySupport #HolidayGiving

Fact of the day! Malnourished Street Children: A Cry for Help Street children face numerous challenges, including malnutrition. This severe lack of essential nutrients can lead to stunted growth, weakened immune systems, and increased vulnerability to diseases. The consequences are devastating, both physically and mentally. Let's Make a Difference, One Child at a Time We can all play a role in addressing this urgent issue. Here’s how: Monthly Meal Commitment: Pledge to prepare a meal for a street child, especially during holidays. Support Local Businesses: Purchase food items from underprivileged communities, helping to sustain livelihoods and provide nutritious food for their children. Volunteer: Join our volunteer pool and contribute your time and skills to support street children's education, healthcare, and well-being. Partner with Us: Collaborate on outreach initiatives in remote areas with extreme poverty to expand our impact. Why Collective Responsibility Matters Ignoring the plight of street children is a failure of our shared humanity. By taking action, we can create a brighter future for these vulnerable children. Remember: Every child deserves a chance to thrive. Let's start with One Child a Day. Join us in making a difference! #feedakid #foundation #child #first

As we close another impactful year at Backpack Buddies, I’m excited to share highlights from our 2023/2024 annual impact report. I’d love you to read the stories of goodness and hope. For the first time in our history, we found ourselves with an unprecedented waitlist of over 1000 kids. The rising rent and food costs of the past few years continued, and many more families needed our help. We were humbled by the many BC families who trust us to provide consistent, stigma-free support and we couldn’t let them down. How did we solve this? We teamed up with corporate donors, partnered with schools, leveraged purchasing power - all to feed hungry kids. I’m so proud of the significant strides we’ve made with the support of our community. TOGETHER - We are Putting Hope Back on the Table. This year, we reached 6,100 kids in 360 schools across 73 communities in BC, who have full bellies each weekend. I share a grateful thanks to all our supporters who helped us reach kids in BC.   But our work is far from over. The need remains urgent. Our waitlist is growing, and hunger doesn’t take the weekend off. Child hunger isn’t just a distant problem; it’s a pressing issue right here in British Columbia. One in seven BC kids - 126,120 children - live in poverty. For families who depend on school meal programs for food, the weekends bring anxiety, stress and uncertainty about where the next meal will come from. In communities across our province, kids are grappling with hunger, impacting not only their health, but also their ability to learn, grow and dream. Interested in learning more about how we can get one step closer to ensuring no BC child goes hungry? I’d love to connect.   #HungerHeroes #EndChildHunger # #ImpactReport #Backpack Buddies

Through our care group program, families are equipped with lifesaving health information and care, through a simple but powerful practice of peer to peer education and shared health promotion. Why does this model work? Because it’s community-based, cost-effective, and highly sustainable. In fact, the Center for High Impact Philanthropy stated, “In empowering mothers and local leaders, the Care Group model demonstrates that high-impact solutions to childhood malnutrition and illness can be simple, low-cost, and community-derived.” As we expand this program to hundreds more families, we need your help to break generational cycles of poverty and sickness. Please join us in bringing health and hope to 960 families through this program. To learn more or make a gift, visit ThreeRoots.org/Care. #NonprofitImpact #MakeADifference #EndPoverty #HealthForAll #CommunityEmpowerment #GlobalDevelopment #SustainableChange #SupportTheMission #TogetherForGood #ChangeMakers

🍲 National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week shines a light on the importance of addressing food insecurity, and CHOICES (https://lnkd.in/d_eY3Euw) is leading the way in Georgia. 🌾 Through their innovative programs, CHOICES provides fresh, nutritious food while also educating families about making healthier choices. They recognize that hunger and housing insecurity often go hand-in-hand, with systemic barriers like domestic violence and lack of access to education compounding the challenges. 💡 CHOICES’ work goes beyond meals—they build resilience by fostering access, empowerment, and community connection. Their holistic approach reminds us that addressing hunger is about creating lasting opportunities for health and well-being. 🤝 Let’s amplify the work of CHOICES this week and support their vision of a future where food insecurity no longer holds families back. Together, we can make a difference. #HungerAndHomelessnessAwareness #CHOICES #EndHunger #CommunityImpact #HealthAndWellbeing  #HHWEEK

Every family should be able to access the programs that can help them thrive. But the reality is that some families face more barriers to getting the support they need. That’s why we’re so proud to partner with Generations United in their mission of supporting grandfamilies—families in which children are raised by relatives other than their parents, including grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, or siblings—who face increased risks of food insecurity. Learn how Generations United is working to change policies and ensure healthy food access for every family ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eRrCTv56

"One in four parents struggled to provide sufficient food for their child in the past 12 months." Patrick, from our policy team, explains what we need from policymakers to protect families: 1️⃣ Establish a long-term plan for local crisis support after the Household Support Fund ends in March 2025. 2️⃣ Remove the two-child limit in Social Security, which disproportionately impacts larger families. 3️⃣ Implement an Essentials Guarantee in Universal Credit to ensure families can afford necessities like food and fuel. 4️⃣ Extend free school meals to all primary school children. 5️⃣ Address holiday hunger by continuing the Holiday Activities and Food Programme beyond March 2025. We need decisive action now to create a fairer future for all children. #EndChildPoverty #SocialPolicy