Share Our Strength

Real SNAP Stories

Billy Shore | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: No Kid Hungry, Share Our Strength, Food Stamps, Snap, Breakdown, Hunger, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Hunger in America, Impact News

"Most think people on food stamps are sponges, but my mother is everything but a sponge. We don't struggle because my mom doesn't work hard enough. We struggle because of the economy and simply because what cards we were dealt."

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How Will We Feed 18 Million Hungry Children When School Lets Out?

Kim Doyle Wille | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Hunger, Share Our Strength, Feeding America, Frac, Food Pantry, Mobile Food Pantry, School Lunches, Gardening, Child Hunger, Food Shelters, Spring-Into-Action, Impact News

Last Thanksgiving, I spent two days documenting hunger at three food pantries. At the first pantry, children in sweaters sweetly asked volunteers if t...

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WHAT YOU CAN DO: Spring Doesn't Mean Baseball Games And Vacations For All Kids

Randy Jackson | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Children's Defense Fund, Education, Poverty, Randy Jackson, Share Our Strength, First Focus, Tennessee, Spring-Into-Action, Idol Gives Back, American Idol, Breakdown, Impact News

It is up to each of us to raise awareness of the fact that almost 25 percent of our children live in poverty and each of us must hold our leaders accountable to ensuring a fair start for every kid in America.

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Food Delivery Program Offers Foodie Treats, Fights Child Hunger

Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Food Donations, Child Poverty, Hunger, Video, Poverty, Patrick McCarthy, Share Our Strength, Bruno Serato, Food With Love, Casey Foundation, Child Hunger, Foodies, Impact News

Donating your time to ending child hunger might seem like a big task, but one organization ensures it can be a piece of cake. Or a truffle, or an ...

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Who's Behind Arby's $2M Gift to 'No Kid Hungry," Santa or the Grinch?

Joe Waters | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: No Kid Hungry, Arby's, Cause Marketing, ConAgra Foods, Arby's Foundation, The Grinch, Share Our Strength, Tyson, Food News

There's a nagging question for me. Should a national leader in anti-hunger programs have a partnerhip with a fast food chain that sells mostly anti-nutritional foods that should be served to families with a side of Lipitor?

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Meatless Monday: (Vegan) Holiday Party With Nava Atlas

Ellen Kanner | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Holidays, Veg Kitchen, Share Our Strength, Vegan Holiday Kitchen, Nava Atlas, New York Colation for Healthy School Food, Shepherd's Pie, Meatless Monday, Food, Green News

Let's be clear -- vegans like to party, too. We just choose not to do it with ham.

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A Great Need, A Greater Investment

Randi Weingarten | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: American Jobs Act, Education, American Federation of Teachers, Poverty, Education Funding, Share Our Strength, Education News

America was founded, and has flourished, as a land of opportunity, a place where, by working hard and seizing opportunities, each generation can do better than the last. But now, this very American notion seems frayed.

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Duff Goldman: The Ace of Cakes On A Sugar High

Regina Varolli | Posted 11.15.2011

A lot has changed for Duff Goldman over the past year. The Ace of Cakes has gone off on a motorcycle powered Sugar High, becoming a bi-coastal frequent flyer who told me, "I travel so much I don't have a time zone anymore."

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Share Our Strength Fights Childhood Hunger at Taste of Nation

Jay Weston | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Wolfgang Puck, Culver City, Share Our Strength, Taste of the Nation, Child Poverty, LA Restaurants, La Impact, La Around Town, Child Hunger, Ending Child Poverty, Los Angeles News

Seventeen million children in the U.S. went to bed hungry last night! That astonishing fact was the impetus for this weekend's Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation benefit held in Culver City.

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Benefit to Help Eliminate Child Hunger at Montage Laguna Beach Hotel

Jay Weston | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Share Our Strength, Campanile, Alex, Montage Laguna Beach Hotel, Alex Wong, Taste of the Nation, Alex Stratta, Richard Ruskell, Los Angeles News

When I received an invitation to attend Taste of the Nation, a culinary benefit to eliminate childhood hunger, I readily accepted, especially after learning that seven of the nation's top chefs would be cooking.

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Buy Mercadito's Specialty Tacos, Help Fight Children's Hunger

Chicagoist | Anthony Todd in Food on January 11, 2011 11:40 AM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tacos for Strength, Mercadito Tacos, Wylie Dufresne, Share Our Strength, Chicago Impact, Mercadito, Chicago, Chicago News

The tacos will be available at dinner for $16 (a plate of 4) and at lunch for $12 (3 tacos). 5% of the sales will be donated to Share Our Strength, a ...

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HuffPost's Greatest Person Of The Day: Billy Shore, Fighting To End Childhood Hunger

The Huffington Post | Dominique Fenton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hunger, Share Our Strength, Health, Hunger in America, Billy-Shore, Greatest Person of the Day, Food, Childhood Hunger, Video, Impact News

Today we're talking to Billy Shore, who started Share Our Strength in 1984 to combat hunger in America. The organization has since raised $300 million...

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Jeff Bridges Promotes 'No Kid Hungry' Campaign (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: No Kid Hungry, Share Our Strength, Childhood Hunger, Jeff Bridges, Hunger in America, Video, Impact News

Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges appeared Thursday on CBS's Washington Unplugged to talk about childhood hunger in the United States, which he descri...

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Oprah's Live Your Best Life Walk Raises Money For Charity

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oprah Winfrey, Oprah, Live Your Best Life Walk, Charity Walk, Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, Share Our Strength, Mothers Day 2010, Mothers Day, Oceana, Impact News

Over 30,000 walkers will take over New York City streets on Mother's Day, May 9, to raise money for charity as part of Oprah's Live Your Best Life Wal...

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Cooking Up Change with Michelle Obama

Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lets-Move, Michelle Obama, Share Our Strength, Politics News

You know what they say - if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. The motto I came away with today has a slight variation: If you can'...

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Hunger and Homelessness in Haiti, Four Months on

Gabriel London | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yele Haiti, Top Chef Cat Cora, Partners in Health, Haiti Earthquake, United Nations, Chefs for Humanity, Clinton Foundation, Cat Cora, Share Our Strength, World Food Programme, Haiti Relief Efforts, Cite Soleil, Haiti, Wyclef Jean, Timberland, Haitiblog, World News

The scale of the ongoing disaster is hard to convey. Port-au-Prince is still entirely run on generators; families still live in makeshift tent cities. This is life in Haiti now.

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More Than Half Of Teachers Report Buying Hungry Students Food With Their Own Money

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hungry Children, Hunger, Children, Share Our Strength, Share Our Strength Teachers Report, Video, Impact News

We often hear about U.S. teachers being paid poorly for all the work they do to educate children. But did you know that 63 percent of teachers report ...

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Great American Dine Out Feeds The Hungry, September 20-26

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Feeding America, Aaron Mccargo Jr, Hunger Action Month, Great American Dine Out, Share Our Strength, Food Network, Video, Impact News

Organizations across the country are running campaigns as part of Hunger Action Month, a national fight against the millions going hungry in America a...

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