Chefs Turn Rescued Veggies into Soup for Cincinnati Schools, Homeless
When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. When grocery stores give you tons of cauliflower saved from the trash, you start simmering soup for the hungry.
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Gardeners Team Up to Grow 60,000 Pounds of Produce for New Mexico Food Pantries
In 2008 Leslie Davis suggested to her mother, a Master Gardener in New Mexico, that in addition to cultivating flowers for worthy causes, she might try growing fresh produce for the community, especially since the recent recession had left so many people unemployed who were visiting overburdened food pantries. That discussion five years ago grew like a seed into a thriving bounty of volunteers who harvest thousands of pounds of produce, sometimes in a singe weekend, for people in need.
Soup Kitchen Disguised as Cafe Offers Side of Dignity to Kansas City Poor
This Kansas City soup kitchen masquerades as a restaurant to serve dignity– alongside healthy meals– to the homeless.
Mom Makes Thanksgiving Happen for 300 Families
A mother-of-three in Maryland had a simple idea: She used her parenting blog Scary Mommy to ask followers to make donations to help a family afford a Thanksgiving feast. Over 600 respondents pitched it and she raised over $18,000 in supermarket gift cards for those who couldn't afford food – providing dinner for 378 families.
Food Bank Shortages Lead To Innovation
Food banks are trying to keep their shelves stocked as more people in the U.S. struggle to get enough to eat. That means finding new ways to salvage food that would otherwise go to waste. One innovation being tested at the Second Harvest in Tennessee, is a vacuum packaging machine being used to test dented food cans for quality. (NPR)
Farming at Leavenworth Prison Trains Inmates, Feeds Needy
A fresh foods program at the Leavenworth Penitentiary has inmates growing a quarter million pounds of produce every year, which produces free healthy food for them, and more than 80,000 pounds in donations to help feed the needy throughout Kansas City.
"Uber Against Hunger" Delivers Unused Food To Needy, Hits 1000-Meal Mark
The Unsung app will let restaurants, stores, and individuals use the "sharing economy" to deliver unused food to people in need.
12-Yr-Old Opens Food Pantry, Gets Huge Surprise From Tyson Foods
The food pantry started by a 12-yr-old girl now feeds hundreds of people —and just got a huge boost from a caring corporation. Watch her joyful reaction.
Great-Grandma Delivers Bag Lunches to Feed 200 Needy Kids Every Day
When this woman heard kids in her county could go hungry over the summer, she rallied volunteers to deliver free lunches to them every day.
Celebrity Chefs To Use Olympic Leftovers To Feed The Hungry
A pair of celebrity chefs have set up a soup kitchen that will turn 12 tons of unused food from the Rio Olympics into 100 meals a day during the games.
Crops Grown on Barge Lets Folks in NYC Pick Free Food From Docks
People are delivering a garden featuring 80 different kinds of fruit and vegetables to docks near food deserts in New York City this summer.
Canadian Restaurant Offers Free Meals To Anyone Who Can't Afford To Pay
A man who went from "king to beggar" -and back again- is giving free meals to anyone who needs food.
Farmer Son of Warren Buffett is Using Dad's Billions to Help Feed the World
The son of one of the world's richest men grew up to be a farmer and is putting his experience and his father's wealth together to end world hunger.
Indian Restaurant Installs Sidewalk Fridge to Hold Free Food for the Poor
This restaurant becomes the third such example we've seen of people installing a refrigerator on the street to hold leftovers that can be eaten by the poor.
Girl Banned from Blogging About School Meals has Raised £100,000 to Feed African Kids
Martha Payne, the nine-year-old schoolgirl who blogged about her school lunches and was briefly banned from photographing them, has not only achieved more healthy lunches for her Scotland school, she is helping to provide lunches to thousands of school kids in Africa.
Starbucks to Give 5 Million Free Meals to the Hungry This Year
Starbucks will start giving leftover, ready-to-eat meals from its 7,600 stores to charities that feed the hungry – that's roughly 50 million meals by 2021.
11-Year-Old's Idea to Become Law
Florida restaurants usually throw out perfectly good food that 11 year-old Jack Davis figures can feed the hungry and the homeless. He is now trying to reverse a Florida law and provide protection for restaurants from being sued if anyone who ate the food became ill or developed food poisoning.
Third Graders Helping to Stop Childhood Hunger
Baking cookies and selling brownies don't seem like solutions that could end childhood hunger, yet, thanks to the Great American Bake Sale Campaign, 5.3 million nutritious meals and snacks were served to low-income children paid for by proceeds from bakes sales all across the country.
Celebs On Social Media Raise Over $1.5M for Somalian Famine
What started as a hashtag on social media has become an international campaign to save Somalian families from starvation and famine, thanks to these stars.
Delivery Man Brings Pizza to Passenger Aboard Stalled Train
This pizza delivery man went the extra mile for a customer who was stranded aboard an Amtrak train on Sunday.
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