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• Taste of the Nation

  Fine dining and tasting events that help make sure no kid in America grows up hungry.

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• Great American Bake Sale

  A national campaign that mobilizes Americans to end childhood hunger by holding bake sales in their communities.

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• Great American Dine Out

  When you eat; they eat. Join us September 20-26, 2009 for the 2nd annual Great American Dine Out! Learn how you can get involved.

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• A Tasteful Pursuit

  A national touring dinner series that features the nation's top chefs taking their talents to the nation’s top culinary cities.

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• Operation Frontline

  A groundbreaking cooking-based nutrition education program that teaches families how to prepare healthy, tasty meals on a limited budget.

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Beneficiaries

Proceeds from the 2009 event supported these local organizations which are dedicated to fighting hunger in Maine:

Cultivating Community

Cultivating Community uses organic and sustainable practices to grow food in the community that helps to feed the most vulnerable. The group's work serves as an engine for high-impact youth and community development programs that reconnect people to natural and sustaining systems.

East End Kids Katering (PROP)

Kids Katering helps to reduce hunger in the community by providing quality, nutritious, affordable, and accessible meals to children and seniors. The program is partially funded by EEKK's social entrepreneurial business wing, which offers full service catering for private or business functions.

Maine Equal Justice Partners

Maine Equal Justice Partners finds solutions to poverty and improves the lives of people with low income in Maine. MEJP focuses its work on the issues that affect people's daily lives- access to adequate health care, food and income security, support for working families, and higher education and training opportunities.

Preble Street Teen Center

Preble Street Teen Center is the hub of services for homeless and runaway youth, providing immediate access and an acclaimed service coordination model. The Center helps to meet immediate needs by providing warmth and safety, nutritious meals, clothing, and crisis intervention.

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Global Organizations

In addition to supporting Share Our Strength's work to end childhood hunger in America, a percentage of Taste of the Nation events support advocacy and sustainable community development in Haiti, Mexico, El Salvador, and Ethiopia through ACCION International, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Bread for the World, Global Food Banking Network, Grassroots International, International Development Exchange, Los Niños, Oxfam America, SHARE Foundation: Building a New El Salvador Today, The Lambi Fund of Haiti, and Save the Children.