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Feeding America Food Pantry Helps Family Turn Things Around After Dealing With a Layoff
After a layoff, things were tough for David, Stephanie & their three kids. They started using the food pantry which helped turn things around. See…
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North Carolina Man to Run Fifty Miles for Feed the Children
Ask someone who works two demanding jobs what they do in their free time, and you may get one of these responses: a) Sleep. b) Chill…
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Income Inequality is Bad for Your Health
By Margot Sanger-Katz We know that living in a poor community makes you less likely to live a long life. New evidence suggests that living…
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Innovators Improve Consumer Confidence in the Financial Solutions Lab
Low-income American families spend the same share of their yearly income on interest and fees as the average American household spends yearly on food. Worse…
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Rebuilding Together Marks its Annual National Rebuilding Month in April
WASHINGTON, April 1, 2015 /3BL Media/ – Rebuilding Together, a national nonprofit with a vision of a safe and healthy home for every person, announced today…
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A good CEO is a good citizen
By Robert Musslewhite As the chief executive of one of the largest publicly traded companies headquartered in the District, I have set aggressive goals for…
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How Giving Homes To The Homeless Reduces Homelessness
In the 1990s, at a time when temporary shelters were often the only options available to homeless people, Pathways to Housing, a New York-based nonprofit pioneered an…
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Access to Clean Water is a Global Nutrition Issue
783 million (1 in 9) people do not have access to clean water, and it is projected that two thirds of humanity will live in water-stressed…
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Coffee Meets Water: Restoring Clean Water Through Crowdfunding
By Nellie Kim and Sarah Ford Can you imagine not having access to clean water? The truth is, not having access to clean water is…
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Let’s Make Elderly Nutrition a National Priority
In the United States of America, no senior citizen should go hungry. Unfortunately, hunger among our elderly population is a growing crisis—hunger rates have more…
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Reaping Big Rewards by Doing the Unexpected
By Bill Shore At Share Our Strength, it took us nearly 25 years to learn that doing what is most expected of us required doing…
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Hunger in Our Schools
By Kristen Bell, No Kid Hungry Supporter As the mother of two little girls, I think a lot about what their lives will be like,…
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