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Share Our Strength & FCCLA

Join To End Childhood Hunger in America!

Share Our Strength has partnered with FCCLA to raise funds and awareness to end childhood hunger in America by 2015. Use this page to learn about childhood hunger in America, how to get involved, and for fundraising tips and ideas!

Check out the amazing job FCCLA chapters around the country are doing through the FCCLA National Team Page.

Index

No Kid Hungry Pledge
Fundraising Ideas
How Your Funds Will Help End Childhood Hunger
How to Submit Funds
Resources
Incentives
National School Food Drive
Questions?
Contact Us

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The First Step - take the No Kid Hungry^® Pledge!

The first step in getting involved in the fight to end childhood hunger in America is to take the No Kid Hungry Pledge »

How You Can Raise Funds to End Childhood Hunger in America

You can raise funds to end childhood hunger any way that you can imagine, but here are a few suggestions from us!

Great American Bake Sale

Join the FCCLA Great American Bake Sale team and raise funds to end childhood hunger by hosting a bake sale in your community and sending the money to Share Our Strength. Hosting a bake sale is easy with our bake sale tool kit and online resources!

To get started, follow these easy steps to make your bake sale part of the FCCLA National Team! Sign up for the free kit and we will automatically send you the kit you would receive with a $10 donation for FREE!

Register now!

Better Homes & Gardens Clean Out for Kids™

Join the FCCLA Clean Out for Kids team and raise funds to end childhood hunger by hosting a yard sale in your community. Gather your friends, family and neighbors to declutter and get rid of unused items while helping to end childhood hunger. It's easy with our yard sale information kit!

To get started, follow these easy steps to make your yard sale part of the FCCLA National Team! Register and we will automatically send you the information kit that you would receive for a $5 donation for FREE!

Register now!

Other Fundraising Ideas

You can fundraise any way that your imagination will take you, but here are a few other ideas to get you started!

1. Sell Share Our Strength Donation Pin Ups - sell these pin ups for $1 each and help to raise both funds and awareness for our nation's hungry children. Consider creating a contest for the class or grade that sells the most with a fun, inexpensive prize (for example, a healthy granola bar party) for the class that wins!
2. Wear Orange Day - raise awareness for childhood hunger in America by encouraging students to donate money and wear orange in your schools.
3. Collect Coins - raise awareness and funds by collecting coins from students, teachers and staff. Every little bit helps in the fight to end childhood hunger!
4. Restaurant Dine Out Nights - coordinate with a local restaurant that a percentage of sales from one night benefit your FCCLA chapter's work for Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry Campaign. Be sure to get lots of friends and family to eat at the restaurant that evening. (If your local restaurant is already taking part of Dine Out for No Kid Hungry, please ask another so we don't ask the same restaurant twice. You can see a full list of participating restaurants, enter your zip code here).
5. Consider hosting a car wash, a fun run, carnival event, raffle or silent auction with products donated from businesses in your community, a talent show or other event with ticket sales funding Share Our Strength's work to end childhood hunger.
6. Register your chapter for any fundraisers besides Great American Bake Sale or Clean Out for Kids so you can fundraise or submit proceeds online.

Register now!

A Note About Funds Raised

Funds raised from FCCLA chapters will be consolidated with other Share Our Strength fundraising programs and used to support anti-hunger, anti-poverty programs throughout the country. We will aim that an equivalent of at least 50% of the funds raised by each FCCLA chapter (assuming a total of $10,000 per state) will be used to support either local grants or support for our state partnerships within the state it was raised. Other funds will go towards Share Our Strength's work to end childhood hunger throughout the nation, in states or locations with partnerships or other high need areas. For more information about how Share Our Strength grants make an impact, click here.

Submitting Funds

To whom do I make my Share Our Strength check out?

Make your check out to: Share Our Strength, Memo Line: Your FCCLA Chapter Name and ID/City/Zip Code

Where do I send my Share Our Strength check?

Share Our Strength, ATTN: FCCLA Fundraising, 1730 M Street, Ste. 700, Washington, DC 20036 or use the envelope enclosed with your Great American Bake Sale or Clean Out for Kids tool kit. If several chapters are included on one check, please attach a spreadsheet with the following information: Total raised by each chapter, Chapter ID number, State and City All money raised must be sent to Share Our Strength's headquarters in Washington, DC by May 1, 2012 to be recorded. Those not sent to the Share Our Strength headquarters, arriving after May 1, or missing required information are subject to not receiving incentives.

Download the Share Our Strength W-9 to make submitting funds through your school simple.

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Resources

Currently available:

• Introduction to Share Our Strength PowerPoint
• Publicity Downloads:
• Local Press Release
• Great American Bake Sale Media Alert
• Clean Out for Kids Yard Sale Media Alert
• Share Our Strength Donation Pin Up
• Cooking Matters Information Sheet
• Shopping Matters Information Sheet
• Menu Planning Activity
• Healthy Cooking Activity Packet
• Cooking Demo Toolkit

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Incentives

Deadline: May 1, 2012

**PLEASE REMEMBER THAT IN ORDER TO RECEIVE RECOGNITION, YOU MUST SEND YOUR CHECK TO SHARE OUR STRENGTH'S NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS.**

Each chapter that raises funds for Share Our Strength will receive fun incentives similar to past years! Check back soon to see the fun incentives you will receive in the following categories.

• If Your Chapter Raises $500 - Share Our Strength Wristband
• If Your Chapter Raises $1,000 - Share Our Strength Pin
• If Your Chapter Raises $2,000 - Share Our Strength Sunglasses
• If Your Chapter Raises $4,000 - Share Our Strength T-shirt

If Your Chapter Raises the Most:
Your chapter will be recognized on stage at the National Leadership Conference as well as receive the Share Our Strength trophy. Each year, the winning chapter's name will be engraved as permanent recognition for their amazing accomplishment! Additionally, the students in the top chapter will also receive additional Share Our Strength incentives.

If Your State Raises The Most Money:
Your state will receive a $1,000 check to use toward any FCCLA expenses. Your state adviser and state president will be recognized and presented a plaque on stage at the National Leadership Conference in Orlando, FL.

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Participate in The National School Food Drive

Each year thousands of schools come together to take part in the National School Food Drive through our partner Schools Fight Hunger, gathering tens of millions of pounds of food for the hungry in their communities. If you are hosting a food drive, register with Schools Fight Hunger to get planning materials and posters and tools and inspiration for making your drive even more effective and ideas for expanding your drive in new and impactful ways.

Start by checking out Schools Fight Hunger here »

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Questions?

• FAQ's

If you have any questions, please email fccla@strength.org or call 888.273.4790.

Hunger in Our Schools

Everyday across America, teachers see the unfortunate effects of childhood hunger. 65% of America's teachers regularly see kids who come to school hungry because they aren't getting enough to eat at home. Many of these teachers buy food with their own money to compensate. With Hunger in Our Schools: Share Our Strength's Teachers Report, we are sharing their unique perspective on this American crisis. Click here to learn more about hunger in our schools »

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Hunger in Your State

More than 17 million children in America are hungry - nearly 1 in 4. Coming this fall, you'll be able to see a snapshot of your state and the work that we're doing in your community. If you need these facts sheets prior to when they are posted or more information, please contact us at fccla@strength.org.

Get Local

Get Local to find out about grantees that you could potentially volunteer with or other events happening in your community. Enter ZIP Code or City and State:

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How Your Funds Will Help End Childhood Hunger

Share Our Strength's national No Kid Hungry^® Campaign includes: raising awareness about childhood hunger, providing grants to local organizations across the country working to end childhood hunger in their communities, our nutrition education program Cooking Matters^™ that teaches families how to prepare healthy tasty meals on a limited budget, and our state partnerships that bring together public and private decision-makers to end childhood hunger, state by state.
Share Our Strength awards No Kid Hungry grants averaging $5,000-10,000 to nonprofit organizations, schools, and other eligible organizations who are involved in the following activities:

1. Helping afterschool programs provide healthy meals and snacks.
2. Expanding the reach of summer meals programs.
3. Supporting innovative ways of expanding access to school breakfast.
4. Ensuring access to programs that help families meet their nutritional needs, like SNAP (food stamps) and WIC (the Women, Infants and Children program).
5. Teaching families how to prepare affordable, healthy and tasty food on a limited budget.

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Questions?

We will be glad to help! Call 888.273.4790 or email fccla@strength.org.



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