2009-05-04T09:13:00.000-07:00

Dine to Make a Difference May 2:

A huge thanks and shout out to all who participated in May 2's Dine to Make a Difference Day, which raised awareness of and proceeds for hunger relief around the country and world!! Events were held in NY, NC, IL, WI, TX, WA, and CO -- and that's just what we KNOW of. Plus, lots of great online buzz. Thank you friends, Idealist.org, Beliefnet.org and many others!! Our "potluck with purpose" in Fort Collins, CO raised more than $500 for our local food bank, and also raised tons of fun and friendship! One family donated their garage sale proceeds to Share our Strength. Another family to Heifer International....Thanks to all for your generous response and hearts!!

Dine to Make a Difference!

2009-04-05T19:56:00.000-07:00

Join us May 2 for Dine to Make a Difference. Register your event in the comments below and share your results!

Dine to Make A Difference Press Release

2009-04-05T14:41:00.000-07:00

National Dine To Make A Difference Day Spotlights Global Hunger

Women Across America Invited To Share A Meal and Help Women and Children In Need

It’s a potluck with purpose. It’s a meal with meaning.

On Saturday, May 2 , people around the country are invited to join National Dine To

Make A Difference Day . Organized by humanitarian and author Susan Skog in

conjunction with Dining For Women, the event is aimed at raising awareness and money

for global hunger.

Dine To Make A Difference allow s people to come together for a meal and donate the

money they would have spent eating out to fight hunger in America and across the world.

Susan Skog, author of The Give-Back Solution , and Dining For Women founder

Marsha Wallace can detail:

• How to set up an event for National Dine To Make A Difference Day

• The staggering statistics of global hunger ( 963 million people across the world

are hungry; One in six children in the U.S. aren’t sure where their next meal will

come from; Nearly 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes every day-

one child every five seconds )

• Why it’s important to give back even in these tough eco no mic times

All participants will be asked to donate money raised to select domestic and global

hunger org anizations including Heifer International, BeadForLife, Hunger Project,

Feeding America, Share Our Strength and Freedo m From Hunger .

Susan Skog is a nationally known writer and presenter who shines a light on humanitarian issues.

She’s a former manager at Engineers Without Borders-USA, a leading organization working in

the developing world. Trained as a journalist, Skog has written six books, including her newest

rel eas e, The Give-Back Solution , and has been featured in Family Circle, AARP and The New

York Times. www.susanskog.com

Marsha Wallace founded Dining for Women in 2003 as a national giving circle dedica ted to

empowering women livi ng in the devel opi ng worl d to become economicall y self-suffici ent.

Dining For Women now includes 130 chapters throughout the world that meet monthly and

donate 100% of proceeds to charita ble groups around the globe.

Heifer International is a non-profit organization whose goal is to help end world hunger

and poverty through self-reliance & sustainability.

For more information about Heifer International , visit http://www.heifer.org/ .

Freedom from Hunger br ings po or women in Afr ica, Asia, and Latin America a

powerful combination of microfinance, education, and health protection to help them

achieve a sustainable, self- help end to hunger and succeeds in making a lasting difference

for over 7.5 million people in 16 developing countries.

For more information about Freedom From Hunger , visit

http://www.freedomfromhunger.org/ .

Share Our Strength is a national organization that works hard to make sure no child in

America grows up hungry. It weaves together a net o f commu nity groups, activists and

food programs to catch children at risk of hunger and surround them with nutritious food

where they live, learn and play.

For more information about Share Our Strength , visit http://www.strength.org/ .

The Hunger Project is a global, non-profit, strategic organization committed to the

sustainable end of world hunger. In Afr ica, Asia and Latin America, The Hunger Project

seeks to end hunger and poverty by empowering people to lead lives of self-reliance,

meet their own basic needs and build better futures for their children.

For more information about The Hunger Project , visit http://www.thp. org/ .

Feeding America is the nation's leading do mestic hunger-relief charity. Its mission is to

feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage

our country in the fight to end hunger. The Feeding America network provides food

assistance to more than 25 million low-income people facing hunger in the United States.

For more information about Feeding America , visit http://feedingamerica.org/ .

BeadforLife eradicates extreme poverty by creating bridges of understanding between

impoverished Africans and concerned world citizens. Ugandan women turn colorful

recycled paper into beautiful bead jewelry and people who care open their hearts, homes

and communities to buy and sell the beads. The income is used to buy food,

medicine, school fees and for community development.

For more information about BeadforLife , visit http://www.beadforlife.org/ .