ConAgra Foods Foundation convenes experts to launch first-of-its kind tool with goal of 500,000 service hours, promoting strategic volunteerism as a way to impact U.S. hunger
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OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 1, 2015 /3BL Media/ – Just in time for #GivingTuesday, a day dedicated to giving back, the ConAgra Foods Foundation today unveiled Hunger Volunteer Connection. This initiative seeks to arm volunteers and organizations with tools to take action to end hunger in the U.S., an issue that impacts 48 million people across the country.1
The Taproot Foundation and ConAgra Foods Foundation are looking for strategic business professionals to join the fight against hunger in a whole new way, by donating your time and expertise for a greater good.
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Interested in making a meaningful impact in the fight against hunger without even leaving your desk? Your professional skills—in marketing, web development, business strategy, HR, IT and so many others—could provide a nonprofit organization with just the right expertise to help them better serve thousands of hungry Americans.
There are likely skilled professionals – specialists in accounting, information technology, human resources and more – in your community ready to volunteer at your nonprofit, but are you ready to receive them?
Do you have the right infrastructure? Staff available to plan and manage? A clear focus?
Engineers, marketers, software developers and other highly skilled professionals are lending their know-how as pro bono volunteers to help nonprofits achieve their missions – with the blessing of the companies that employ them.
ConAgra Foods and the ConAgra Foods Foundation prove that you can make a difference in the fight against child hunger at any age
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OMAHA, Neb., April 2, 2015 /3BL Media/ — When faced with a challenging reality, like the staggering facts of child hunger in America, it’s inspiring to see how kids jump into action to help their friends, neighbors and peers. The pure simplicity of kids helping kids in need is what moved ConAgra Foods (NYSE: CAG) and the ConAgra Foods Foundation to enlist youth volunteers to fight child hunger in their own communities by funding 100 youth service grants through a partnership with generationOn, the youth service division of Points of Light.
Child Hunger Ends Here® Campaign Provides a Simple Way for People to Help the 17 Million Kids Facing Hunger in the U.S.
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OMAHA, Neb., March 12, 2015 /3BL Media/ — More than one in five children1 and more than one in four Latino children1 in the United States - a number that could fill nearly 8,000 playgrounds - may not know where their next meal is coming from. ConAgra Foods (NYSE: CAG) aims to empower a community of people to help change the realities of child hunger one meal at a time by helping to donate up to three million meals in 2015 through the Child Hunger Ends Here program.
ConAgra Foods Foundation’s new commitment - $10 million over 3 years is largest donation Feeding America has ever received for fighting child hunger; ConAgra Foods and the Foundation set child-hunger-reduction goals for 2018
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OMAHA, Neb., November 24, 2014 /3BL Media/ — Despite 20 years of work, ConAgra Foods (NYSE:CAG) and the ConAgra Foods Foundation believe much more progress must be made in the fight against child hunger in America, where more than one in five kids still might not know where the next meal is coming from.
Kid President’s New Video Triggers Meal Donation by ConAgra Foods Foundation
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OMAHA, NE., May 22, 2014 /3BL Media/ — Although the end of the school year is just days away for many, not all kids will be looking forward to summertime.
