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2009 Events Start Out Strong
This month, our spring and summer events get underway, Operation Frontline continues to expand, there are creative new ways to get involved, and we share a volunteer’s story and a ‘thank you’ from a grateful grant recipient.
 Taste of the Nation
Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation® opens its 2009 season March 30 in D.C. where Chef Chair RJ Cooper (at right) leads the event and makes the first of numerous appearances by members of the 2009 Taste of the Nation Culinary Council. These six nationally acclaimed chefs and mixologists will appear at various Taste of the Nation events and serve as event spokespersons. Buy tickets today.
 Great American Bake Sale
Registration is open for Share Our Strength's Great American Bake Sale®, presented by Domino® Sugar and C&H® Sugar. Our goal is to top last year’s success: 1,500 teams raised close to $1 million. This year’s registration kit is full of recipes, the official poster, coupons and tips for making your bake sale a hit. Bake Sale season is March 1 through July 21. Sign up today.
Operation Frontline
Share Our Strength’s Operation Frontline®, nationally sponsored by the ConAgra Foods® Foundation, will launch a nutrition education program in Georgia with classes for 6th, 7th and 8th graders and their parents at The Salvation Army’s Ray & Joan Kroc Community Center of Atlanta. Local partner Georgia Coalition for Physical Activity and Nutrition will begin classes next month.
Grants at Work
Kids Avenue Learning Center, a child care center in Faribault, Minn., sent us this note after learning they’d receive a Share Our Strength grant this year. The Center is expanding its summer and after-school meal programs to meet the growing needs of low-income families. They will use the grant to buy food and equipment. “I am overjoyed yet brought to tears at your news,” says Kids Avenue board member Natalie Ginter. “The funding from Share Our Strength is coming at a critical moment. All I can say is ‘thank you’ from the bottom of my heart and from the 100+ children we care for every day!”
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Help Quaker Help Your Community
Apply for a Quaker Go Grant to start a project that combats hunger in your community.
Support a Share Our Strength Restaurant
When you eat out, choose a restaurant that’s helping fight childhood hunger in America. Get Local »
Tastefully Simple Shares the Love
Tastefully Simple, a direct sales company featuring more than 50 easy-to-prepare gourmet foods and gifts, just announced its partnership with Share Our Strength. Every time you buy a box of the company’s new For the Love of Cookies™ Chocolate Chip Toffee Almond Cookie Mix, Tastefully Simple will donate $1 to Share Our Strength. Their goal: to sell 500,000 packages and donate $500,000 to Share Our Strength by this time next year. |
On Wednesday, March 25th nine area Whole Foods will be donating 5% of their net sales to Operation Frontline Massachusetts. Please help us spread the word about this fantastic opportunity. Participating . . . more
