Friday, December 19, 2008
Good advice Hunger Sucks. Here's How to Help Feed People.
Posted by Carrington Fox on Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:00 AM
While lurking on the South board at Chowhound.com, I came across this thread, in which a few generous folks--Fluffernutter among them--make a list of hunger-fighting organizations that could make good use of your end-of-the-year charitable contributions. Second Harvest, St. Luke's Community Center, Martha O'Bryan Center, Nashville Urban Harvest and Bethlehem Center all make the list.
Personally, I'm impressed by Second Harvest's Backpack Program, which sends inconspicuous knapsacks of food home with students who otherwise might not have anything to eat over the weekend or school holiday. I'm also encouraged by the number of people I hear lately participating in the Campus for Human Development's Room in the Inn, a network of congregations that provide food and shelter for people in need during the winter months.
If, like the person who started the thread on Chowhound, folks were to come upon some extra cash this season, where could they donate it to help feed the most people? If the extra cash never materializes, where would you recommend compassionate people donate their time and energy?
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As a former employee of St. Luke's Community House, I can attest to the fact that foods, funds, and volunteers are all needed! This is a great organization with one of the best Second Harvest Food Bank sites in Middle Tennessee. The food bank serves something like 5 to 7 zip codes and is open the longest hours and the most days of any I've heard of in Nashville. This is to say--they run out of food every week before their Friday Second Harvest delivery truck comes.
So give to St. Luke's! It will be put to excellent use in the West Nashville community.
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I work with a church youth group, and we've had great experiences volunteering with Feed the Children. They basically set your group up on an assembly line and you pack food boxes that get distributed all over the country. It's fun for a large group, fairly easy work for people of various ages, and you can get a lot done quickly.
Glad to see you list both 2nd Harvest and Room at the Inn, both of which my family volunteers time to through our church. I can attest through personal experience that both are worthy causes and provide a lot of food to a variety of people. Our 2nd Harvest program in particular has been swamped of late. Lot of need out there just now...
