The reality is very difficult. Snow shuts down our ability to get food out to our kiddos in need. Please read this short article to understand how snow days are the opposite of fun for struggling families in the U.S. - Sam http://blog.foodbankcenc.org/wordpress/what-snow-days-mean-for-people-struggling-with-hunger/ #growingtheknowledge

Grow Our Kids is changing the face of childhood hunger on a local level. We’re getting good food to good kids when they need it most so that they can return to school energized, feeling good, and ready to learn. Full Little Bellies feed phenomenal Little Minds so that they can grow and thrive. #growingtheknowledge

Spend a little bit of time with the videos featured here to grow your knowledge about food insecurity in America. It’s not what you think. http://www.wral.com/wral-campaign-aims-to-end-hunger/13822512/ #growingtheknowledge

The Majority of our produce comes through Farmer Foodshare’s amazing “Donation Station” program. This program connects local farmers who grow food to communities who need food. But Grow Our Kids knows that education is a big part of the “fresh produce” movement – you won’t eat or serve a yummy, nutritious zucchini if you don’t know how to cook it. In the words of Farmer Foodshare’s Food Ambassadors: “we often find that people encounter produce they haven’t tried before, o

Jeff Bridges is awesome. He is the public face of Share Our Strength’s “No Kid Hungry” campaign which is a national force in ending childhood hunger in America. Share Our Strength funnels badly needed money and resources to programs that feed lower-income kids at school; they also provide major support to food banks such as NC’s Food Bank of Central & Eastern NC (one of our “Community Partners”). Share Our Strength is an amazing organization and they are making an incredib

“A PLACE AT THE TABLE forcefully makes the case that hunger has serious economic, social and cultural implications for the nation.” — Julie Makinen, LA Times In theaters, available on iTunes and On Demand March 1st Fifty million people in the U.S.—one in four children—don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush examine the issue of hunger in America through the lens of three people struggling with food insecurity: Barbie, a s

BY GENE NICHOL – COMMENTARY Tags: North Carolina | poverty | Gene Nichol Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a yearlong look at poverty in North Carolina. Gene Nichol will revisit this topic monthly. We speak much for equality in the United States. Our first statement as a nation attests it’s a “self-evident truth” that all are “created equal.” Lincoln reminded, at Gettysburg, we were “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition” of equality. Our constitution is premis

Heaping platters of turkey, bowls of gravy-slathered mashed potatoes, endless pies and more than plenty for leftovers; for millions of children across the United States, a meal like this is as far-fetched a Christmas fantasy as Santa actually dropping down their chimney. Winter break is anything but a wonderland for children in many of the nation’s estimated 44 million food insecure families, who rely on school lunch for sustenance. Nearly 16 percent of US households with chi

“The facts, though distasteful, speak for themselves. One in five North Carolina kids under 18 is hungry. For children younger than five, the number jumps to 1 in 4— the littlest ones easily fall through the cracks without school food programs to help sustain them. In North Carolina, where unemployment is high, the number of hungry people is increasing drastically; ongoing economic hardships have forced many families to choose between grocery shopping, paying mortgages and ut