You know how I’ve been talking about my partnership with ConAgra Foods on the Child Hunger Ends Here Neighborhood Rally campaign? It’s almost over. And I want to know if you got involved somehow in your own neighborhood. Today I received a plastic bag in the mail to donate canned food through the post office. That’s a start.
Some of my fellow blogging friends have been hosting rallies of their own across the country, raising money one party at a time to donate to their communities. There’s still time if you want to get involved!
About this time of year I start having garage sales, one after the other, to clean out all the accumulated Winter clutter. If you were to do the same and donate the proceeds {or part of the proceeds} to Child Hunger Ends Here, we could put a small dent in the hunger problem in our local communities.
My favorite part about the whole campaign is that all the money raised locally and donated online stays in your community. So the kids in your neighborhood could theoretically be benefiting from your yard sale, lemonade stand, or bake sale. Do it. Do it with your kids, do it with your neighbors.
Danielle, {aka Extraordinary Mommy} put together this great video from her day of volunteering at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. Pretty great stuff.
If you can’t donate a dollar, donate your time to a local food bank. Also, the sweetest thing of all sweetness, each time you comment on this post or tweet about this post and the Child Hunger Ends Here campaign with the hashtag #fightchildhunger, $1 will be donated in the name of Petit Elefant. Up to $100.
This is really critical, especially right now when schools across the country are getting out for the summer. During the school year 19.5 million children receive free or reduced price lunch through the National Food Bank School Lunch Program but only a fraction of those, 2.2 million receive free meals during the summer months. What’s happening to the other 17 million? Every dollar raised through this program stays in your community to help feed these kids.
What are you waiting for? Let’s earn some money to feed hungry kids.
Each comment earns $1 for hungry kids in your community. Each tweet earns an additional dollar. Use the hashtag #fightchildhunger.
Allison
Hello there! I'm Allison Czarnecki, founder + editor of Petit Elefant, a blog all about style on a budget for every part of your life: style / home / travel / family. I do a lot of how-to beauty + style tutorials, travel posts, easy recipes, home remodel projects, and cool DIY crafts you totally want to try. I'm super happily married (to a hot Polish immigrant) and am the mother of two kids, a daughter and son, all of whom are featured here on the regular. We live in the country but we're a little bit rock + roll. Welcome!
I am a fan of you AND ConAgra…but I hate child hunger.
Let’s stop it.
It terrifies me that summer is such a precarious time for school lunch recipients. Thanks for making it so easy to donate a dollar with a comment.
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Look at your cute new site redesign!
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Jaime
Feels good to do good. :)
Thank you for bringing attention to this! We have a park locally that offers free lunches every day in the summer (with good stuff like organic fruit and milk!) but it’s so sad that not a lot of people even KNOW about it, and so many people don’t even think about the poor children and what they do for lunch during their summer out of school.
Steph
Thanks for doing this.
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this comment is for the kids! :)
The above comment with the Arrested Development reference should be worth FIVE dollars. :)
I love that you are a part of this great cause. Way to go Allison!
Great video. I love that the money donated is used locally. So great.
you got it, girlfriend. Mr. J heads up a massive food drive at his school each year with amazing results. It warms the heart to know so many people work so hard to do good.
what a great cause
thanks for doing this.
Good for you! Great things you’re doing here :)
You are amazing and this is so important. No child should go hungry…..
xoxo
Thanks for making this donation!
Here is my comment, and will be retweeting!
Bravo, Lovely Allison! Will be tweeting.
Thank you for doing good things.
Child hunger is stupid.
What a great way to help!
What an awesome opportunity you have to make a difference!
I’ve volunteered at my local food bank sorting all the donated cans. It’s actually kinda fun for my loves to organize self. Some companies offer a few hours of comp time a month for volunteer work. If your company has this program, getting your co-workers together and working at the local food bank would be a great way to spend an afternoon and get out of work.
Children should not be hungry.
They should be allowed the childhood right to refuse to eat their vegetables.
But those vegetables should be an option!
Hope this helps! :)
in a world where people are driving 70,000 dollar cars, why are children still hungry?
this is a great cause.
Kids gotta eat! I’m glad you’re doing something to help that :)
I took the 5th graders from Roo’s school to a local food bank last year and the kids were so overwhelmed thinking that some people don’t have enough food, not to mention clothes, toys, books, etc. It’s so important to raise our kids with the knowledge that we have more than others and should help when we can.
Local food bank’s do God’s work in our neighborhood. Whatever we can do, we should.
Let’s stop childhood hunger. Thanks Allison!
Nice article! I hope I’m not too late to donate my dollar.