No Kid Hungry Blog
Ending Childhood Hunger in America
We Can End This
This week marks the beginning of the WeCanEndThis campaign, an initiative to shift the conversation about hunger in America and create real, tangible solutions. At the center of the effort is a 15-day digital can drive - every person who makes a commitment to volunteer, donate or take action to help end hunger will be able to donate a digital can of food to the state of his or her choice. On March 18, the 10 states with the most digital cans will win a truckload of food.
March 5, 2010 | 0 comment(s) | Tags: activism, childhood hunger, get involved, hunger
The Hunger-Obesity Paradox
By Pat Nicklin
Last week I appeared at the Fun and Fit Symposium, part of the Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival. Joining me on the panel entitled No Kid Hungry, Every Kid Healthy were Audrey Rowe, head of Special Nutrition...
March 4, 2010 | 1 comment(s) | Tags: change, child nutrition act, childhood hunger, childhood obesity
Where Do Good Ideas Come From?
If US Democracy is an experiment, then U.S. governors are the Petri dish, incubating and growing new ideas to tackle complicated challenges. Innovations tend to originate in states where “winners” can then be nurtured, tested and replicated in other states....
February 25, 2010 | 0 comment(s) | Tags: childhood hunger, childhood hunger strategy, economy, government
Race to the Top
By Billy Shore
On February 23 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack presented key elements of the Administration’s strategy to end childhood hunger in a speech at the National Press Club. The centerpiece is a “race to the top” competition to create incentives for states...
March 2, 2010 | 0 comment(s) | Tags: childhood hunger, childhood hunger strategy, government, USDA
Letter from this Morning's Private Session with Nation's Governors
By Billy Shore
We had a great opportunity this morning to advance our strategy to end childhood hunger by presenting to a private session of Governors from about a dozen states including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iowa, Colorado and Maryland. They were in town...
February 22, 2010 | 1 comment(s) | Tags: childhood hunger, democratic governors association, letters, state partnerships
